Bonding Interface In Mikrotik1

Presented by : EAN SARATHJob Position : Network Engineer at MaxBITCertified : MTCNA, CCNA Present Date : 25-01-2016

Agenda

´ Bonding Interface Overview ´ Link Monitoring ´ Bonding Mode ´ Configuration Demo´ Reference

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Bonding Interface Mikrotik3

Bonding is a technology that allows aggregation of multipleEthernet-like interfaces into a single virtual link, thus getting higherdata rates and providing failover. Provided High Available andMaximum Throughput.

Link Monitoring 4

Link Monitoring : method to use for monitoring the link (whether it is up or down)

ARP Monitoring : ARP monitoring sends ARPqueries and uses the response as an indicationthat the link is operational.

MII Monitoring : Media Independent Interface isan abstract layer between the operating systemand the NIC which detects whether the link isrunning (it performs also other functions, but inour case this is the most important)

Bonding Mode 5

I802.3ad : EEE 802.3ad dynamic link aggregation. be sure that thisswitch supports IEEE 802.3ad standard. Provides fault tolerance andload balancing.

Active-Backup

´ active-backup : provides link backup. Only one slave can beactive at a time. Another slave becomes active only, if first one fails.

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Backup Port Active Port

Balance -rr and Balance-xor

´ balance-rr : round-robin load balancing. Slaves in bonding interface will transmit and receive data in sequential order. Provides load balancing and fault tolerance.

´ balance-xor: This mode balances outgoing traffic across the active ports based on the hashed protocol header information and accepts incoming traffic from any active port.

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Balance tlb

´ The outgoing traffic is distributed according to the current load. ´ Incoming traffic is not balanced ´ this mod is address-pair load balancing

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Balance alb

´ Adaptive load balancing: includes balance-tlb plus receive loadbalancing (rlb) for IPV4 traffic, and does not require any specialswitch support.

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Broadcast

´ Broadcast: transmits everything on all slave interfaces. This mode provides fault tolerance.

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Configuration Demo11

q Mikrotik-1 /interface bondingadd name=bonding1 slaves=ether1,ether2/ip addressadd address=192.168.88.1/30 interface=bonding1 network=192.168.88.0

q Mikrotik-2/interface bondingadd name=bonding1 slaves=ETH-1,ETH-2/ip addressadd address=192.168.88.2/30 interface=bonding1 network=192.168.88.0

Bandwidth Test

Open source Linux

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1. Test speed Mikrotik-1 To Mikrotik-2 2. Test speed Mikrotik-2 To Mikrotik-1

Reference

´ http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Bonding´ https://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/interface/bondin

g.php´ http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Bonding_Examples´ http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/bonding.html

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Thank you !

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