Allied Telesis AT-WR4500 manual Interface Bonding General Information, Summary, Quick Setup Guide

154	AT-WR4500 Series - IEEE 802.11abgh Outdoor Wireless Routers
	RouterOS v3 Configuration and User Guide

8.2Interface Bonding

8.3General Information

8.3.1Summary

Bonding is a technology that allows to aggregate multiple ethernet-like interfaces into a single virtual link, thus getting higher data rates and providing failover.

8.3.2 Quick Setup Guide

Let us assume that we have 2 NICs in each router (Router1 and Router2) and want to get maximum data rate between 2 routers. To make this possible, follow these steps:

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Make sure that you do not have IP addresses on interfaces which will be enslaved for bonding interface!

Add bonding interface on Router1:

[admin@Router1] interface bonding> add slaves=ether1,ether2

And on Router2:

[admin@Router2] interface bonding> add slaves=ether1,ether2

Add addresses to bonding interfaces:

[admin@Router1] ip address> add address=172.16.0.1/24 interface=bonding1

[admin@Router2] ip address> add address=172.16.0.2/24 interface=bonding1

Test the link from Router1:

[admin@Router1] interface bonding> /pi 172.16.0.2

172.16.0.2ping timeout

172.16.0.2ping timeout

172.16.0.2ping timeout

172.16.0.264 byte ping: ttl=64 time=2 ms

172.16.0.264 byte ping: ttl=64 time=2 ms

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A bonding interface needs a couple of seconds to get connectivity with its peer.

Specifications

Packages required: system

License required: Level1

Submenu level: /interface bonding

Standards and Technologies: None

Hardware usage: Not significant

8.3.3Related Documents

Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver mini-howto