Hi,

Still a bit of a newbie. I have a RB201 series router doing PPOE to ADSL modem, Wifi Access point, DHCP server etc. serving a LAN through another switch. I now have a two port NAS and I am not sure how to get maximum throughput from the NAS. In the Windows world, I guess they call it teaming, in Miktrotik, I guess bonding? I am very confused by the articles I have seen here on this subject.

When I go into /interface bonding and try add slaves=ether4,ether5 , I get ether4 already in bridge local.

Question 1 is, will I get aggregated bandwidth to my NAS this way? Question 2, what am I doing wrong?

Windows "teaming" == Mikrotik "bonding"
What you probably have to do is first, remove port ether4 and ether5 from the bridge.
Then create the bond interface. Afterwards, go back to the bridge ports and add the newly created bonding1 interface.

Did that help?

Hi Chris,

Thank you very much for the information so far! That went a long way. Not quite there yet. I'm trying to get my head around the addressing for this port.

The device is a PPOE router, with WiFI active. The NAS has two LAN ports which I have plugged into the routers Gigabit ports 4 and 5. Do I need to give these ether ports an address or subnet from the router? My network is 192.168.x.0 and router is 192.168.x.1 The QNAP NAS does port trunking, so it can make the NAS appear as one IP.

What do I have to do to make the Mikrotik config  work?

Cheers.