Hi All

Please refer to this diagram



I am looking to set up the senario thus ...

Router A and B are cisco routers.
Network A is our hosted environment

Switch A and Switch B are 10/100 switches.

Mikrotik A & C are running on 531 routerboards
Mikrotik B & D are running wrapboards

I want to do the following

1) Load balance over Link Mikrotik ABCD
2) Failover Mikrotik ABCD
3) Router A and Router B have a serial link as well (Labeled on diagram) I want to failover the wireless links in the event of packet loss or power down. (Mikrotik A C has backup power for 3 days [ups] mikrotik b and d will have in 2 weeks)
4) I need to address all the mikrotiks using a C Class public addressing scheme.

These are my ideas:
1) Is it possible to Bridge both wireless connections into one "huge" wireless link?
2) Will the failover between the wireless networks be seemless.
3) Can you loadbalance 50:50 netween the links? Could it be 70:30 ?
4) Could you control wireless load balance and failover on mikrotik? could it send notification on failover or link down ?
5) I want to run a routing protocol on the Cisco Router A and B Perhaps EIGRP - maybe we could redistribute the wireless links into Eigrp.

Let me know what you think

Regards

Malcolm Siegel

Hi

anyone have any ideas yet ???


--M--

take out the switch and connect the mikrotiks to the cisco router (hopefully it has enough ethernet ports), then use a routing protocol such as BGP to achieve your goal..

Another thing you could do is replace the switches with another mikrotik and bond the two wireless connections. Then just setup a simple script that would route via the serial connection if ping went down over the wireless link..

I like the second idea better, it'll give you more throughput, and in the event of failure it will use the serial as an automatic failover.

Cisco might also support some type of bonding, you'd have to look into that one tho...

I do not have enough ports on the cisco - that is why i am using the switch.

Otherwise I am going to need to get a NM2FE2W slot for each of the routers and upgrade the ios images ...

I want to try and sort this out first.

how would i bond the connection wit another mikrotik ?

--M--