Wireless bonding, radio failover

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hello, after reading somewhere that some MT 60 GHz products have a redundant radio solution, I’ve been curious to understand how;
from my understanding, in case 60Ghz communication between both devices stops, a secondary frequency will enter in use.
This should be possible using Bonding active-backup:

/interface bonding add mode=active-backup name=Bonding primary=wlan601 slaves=wlan60,wlan
/interface bridge port add bridge=Bridge interface=Bonding

Testing the same method with 2 hAP ac2 with ancient Wireless drivers, bridging Router and AP:

# mode=bridge for Router # mode=station-bridge for Access Point
/interface wireless set [find default-name=wlan1] arp=disabled name="WiFi 2Ghz" ssid="TEST"
/interface wireless set [find default-name=wlan2] arp=disabled name="WiFi 5Ghz" ssid="TEST"

/interface bonding add link-monitoring=mii mode=active-backup name="Bridge WLAN" primary="WiFi 5Ghz" slaves="WiFi 2Ghz,WiFi 5Ghz"" transmit-hash-policy=layer-2

/interface bridge port add bridge=Bridge interface="Bridge WLAN"

as soon as the primary 5Ghz radio is disabled, devices stop communicating, this is due to the Bonding active port remaining 2Ghz on one device and 5Ghz on the other, in case 5Ghz is disabled on both sides communication is back again via 2Ghz radio.

Could someone explain if active-backup use is correct and if this should work also via wireless?

Thanks!

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Don’t create a bond on the AP side. Set it to AP bridge as well. The CPE side will handle the failover.

This is how I do it in PTMP setups, with a wAP 60 AP and an OmniTik 5AC at the AP end. I connect Cube60’s and Cube60 Pro’s to both AP’s, but configure the 60GHz radio as primary in the bond and 5GHz as secondary in the bond. It works beautifully.