Hey, #Mikrotik crowd!
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Hey, #Mikrotik crowd!
Starting newly with Mikrotik I have some questions, specifically about MLAG, Bonding and Interfaces...
My understanding is:
- Interfaces are members of a default bridge
- when you want to do bonding, then you have to remove the interfaces from that bridge before adding them to a bond interface
- when setting up MLAG you need to add the bond interface to the MLAG
- MLAG bond interfaces should have a special/own VLAN
- each interface pair for clients need to have an MLAG ID (or is it the same?)?Lots of questions... you can also contact me via XMPP or Matrix, if that's a better way answering my questions...
Switch in question is a pair of CRS520-4XS-16XQ-RM...
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Hey, #Mikrotik crowd!
Starting newly with Mikrotik I have some questions, specifically about MLAG, Bonding and Interfaces...
My understanding is:
- Interfaces are members of a default bridge
- when you want to do bonding, then you have to remove the interfaces from that bridge before adding them to a bond interface
- when setting up MLAG you need to add the bond interface to the MLAG
- MLAG bond interfaces should have a special/own VLAN
- each interface pair for clients need to have an MLAG ID (or is it the same?)?Lots of questions... you can also contact me via XMPP or Matrix, if that's a better way answering my questions...
Switch in question is a pair of CRS520-4XS-16XQ-RM...
@ij Answering from phone, so i might sound like an AI, but all typos are made by a human and Auto correction.
Take a Look at the MLAG documentation, it's not that bad. But it's just a simple setup with one client, so:
- you will have one dedicated MLAG ID for each client, so client a will use ID 10, client b will be ID 11, ...
- handle each client Bonding Interface as any other regular Interface, so same vlan or different ones. Same as regular Interfaces.
- use only one Bridge If you have only one Switch Chip. (You will have, it is a Feature of a real Switch. Seperate Interfaces by vlan.)
- transmit all vlan ids you have as tagged on the MLAG Peer Port, which could be a bonding Interface itself.Rest should be fine from the documentation.
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Hey, #Mikrotik crowd!
Starting newly with Mikrotik I have some questions, specifically about MLAG, Bonding and Interfaces...
My understanding is:
- Interfaces are members of a default bridge
- when you want to do bonding, then you have to remove the interfaces from that bridge before adding them to a bond interface
- when setting up MLAG you need to add the bond interface to the MLAG
- MLAG bond interfaces should have a special/own VLAN
- each interface pair for clients need to have an MLAG ID (or is it the same?)?Lots of questions... you can also contact me via XMPP or Matrix, if that's a better way answering my questions...
Switch in question is a pair of CRS520-4XS-16XQ-RM...
@ij My Suggestion would be: Start with the Setup of the documentation, but replace Ethernet Ports with sfp Ports. Then
- replace MLAG Peer Port with Bonding Interface of two Ports
- add second MLAG Client with dedicated MLAG ID, ...
