LAG if they're equal radios OSPF if you want to do fdx
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 6:43 PM Nick Bright via Mikrotik-users < mikrotik-users@wispa.org wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm looking at a configuration to set up bonding between two Mikrotik > routers (CCR1009 and RB2011), using two separate wireless links between > them (external radios). > > I am concerned about one of the links having an issue where it stays > linked, but stops passing traffic. > > Which bonding driver would be best suited to providing maximum > availability? Bonded capacity is not required, but the links aren't the > same speed; so I'd want to prefer the faster link if non-aggregated > capacity is required. > > It seems like any method which only supports MII monitoring is out, > because the MII link wouldn't drop (it's Ethernet to the radio); which > rules out 802.11ad, active-backup, and balance-tlb. > > broadcast seems like it would be limited to the slower link, rather than > the faster link. > > balance-rr states that it requires equal bandwidth links. > > This appears to only leave balance-xor and balance-alb. It seems like > balance-alb is most likely the best choice. > > I am also unclear on how the ARP availability mechanism judges a port to > be available. I think that I would want to assign a unique probing > address to each port on each end of each router, and have those IP > addresses (one per port) set in the arp-ip-targets list? This should > allow the router to know which specific ports work, and which don't? > > Thanks, > > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > - Nick Bright - > - Vice President of Technology - > - Valnet -=- We Connect You -=- - > - Tel 888-332-1616 x 315 / Fax 620-331-0789 - > - Web http://www.valnet.net/ - > ----------------------------------------------- > - Are your files safe? - > - Valnet Vault - Secure Cloud Backup - > - More information & 30 day free trial at - > - http://www.valnet.net/services/valnet-vault - > ----------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik-users mailing list > Mikrotik-users@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik-users >
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