Interface Bonding; General Information - MikroTik RouterOS v2.9 Reference Manual

Interface Bonding

Document revision 1.1 (oct-26-2004)
This document applies to MikroTik RouterOS V2.9
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Summary
Quick Setup Guide
Specifications
Related Documents
Description
Property Description
Notes
Bonding two Eoip tunnels

General Information

Summary
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.
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:
1. Make sure that you do not have IP addresses on interfaces which will be enslaved for bonding
interface!
2. Add bonding interface on Router1:
[admin@Router1] interface bonding> add slaves=ether1,ether2
And on Router2:
[admin@Router2] interface bonding> add slaves=ether1,ether2
3. 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
4. Test the link from Router1:
[admin@Router1] interface bonding> /pi 172.16.0.2
172.16.0.2 ping timeout
172.16.0.2 ping timeout
172.16.0.2 ping timeout
172.16.0.2 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=2 ms
172.16.0.2 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=2 ms
Note that bonding interface needs a couple of seconds to get connectivity with its peer.
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