I’m having trouble getting wireless bonding to work
Topology is
Mikrotik Router->Netonix Switch->{2x Wireless Links}->Netonix Switch->Mikrotik Router
The problem i’m having is also being able to manage the wireless AP’s in the future. If I use LACP on the Netonix Switches then I can’t get to the wireless AP’s because there’s no way to predict which link packets will take when trying to get to i.e. Station on A link, they could go via the B link and never arrive
I’ve tried using separate VLAN’s for management (i.e. data vlan 10 for custer, vlan 101 for link A, vlan 102 for link B) and the problem with that is the netonix switches don’t like it, when I configure each interface differently I lose connectivity. I’m guessing that LACP does not like having different VLAN’s on each interface and is dropping them out of the group?
So I tried removing LACP entirely and moving the bonding to the routers, using 4 VLAN’s - 101/102 for management and 111/112 for data flow. Netonix switches configured to only send 101/111 over Link A and 102/112 via link B. Then I create a bonding interface on the Mikrotik routers and put VLAN 111/112 in it. This lets me get management of all the AP’s and it lets data flow nicely, but the problem is detection of links being down. If 1 wireless link goes down, it still splits the traffic so only half the packets arrive. Maybe i’m configuring link monitoring wrong?
I also tried using EoIP but when I use the keepalive option, the EoIP interface flaps up and down on one router - even though the link is solid and reliable it still flaps. So I can’t use EoIP for that reason… and I need keepalive to ensure the link is up and working
Can anyone provide any help?