I posted this question a few years ago, but I still have not heard if it will happen.
The BR2 Max is a high-end router, but it lacks a feature that almost all normal routers have. Why?
802.3ad Dynamic LACP would be nice to link the 4- 1G ports of the BR2 Max Pro to get increased bandwidth and High Availability (HA) to a downstream switch
I assume we are talking about BR2 Pro and you can find below information on 8.4.1 release notes here.
Peplink have wan link aggregation?
LACP for WAN?
I just checked on max BR1 pro and found only how aggregate LAN ports.
For example aggregate cellular + starlink connection.
Here is how looks on some devices…
Called LAG - link aggregation group.
For example I have 2 active WANs connections and I want just aggregate this WANs connections and have better speed = (connection 1 + connection 2 ) on lan/wifi port without VPN.
Hi, @andy.manager
Peplink have LACP (802.3ad) NIC Bonding. This is a standard to be used between Peplink network device and other network devices, like switches.
Check for devices that have this at
Enterprise Router Comparison: Evaluate the Best Options for Businesses - Peplink (SAMPLE)
The MAX BR1 PRO don’t have support to LACP at WAN side.
My opnion… is the device have just one native physical wan port.
It is capable to have more wans, but using a logical/physical trick/license to do this.
Maybe a hardware limitation of the device.
Sorry… If I don’t understand all the subject of your post.
B one comes with two ports, but can’t make it work
Hi…
Please… Check…
Can you share the Dashboard of your device?
Can you share the WAN2 details of your device?
Please… Remember… This SoHo device, are not capable to do LACP.
LACP (802.3ad) NIC Bonding = NO
Thank you.
what is your wan in that instance? Its very rare to get a carrier that will handoff LACP bundles for wan.
If you need it, you can bond 2x lan ports with LACP, and use the wan-on-vlan licencse to run a wan over that LACP.
This thread got a bit confusing. Let me hit a couple of these points:
Because of the B One design, LACP would have to be implemented in software. But it would also be pointless, it has a max routing throughput of 1Gbps, so implementing LACP to get a 2GBps wouldn’t net you any gain.
BR1 Pro does not have LACP, it only has 1 WAN port with 2.5Gbps speed, however the device itself is only rated for 1Gbps throughput.
Also LACP is not Link aggregation in the form you described. Those are entirely distinct features.
But lets say you want to use multiple WAN’s or LACP, you still can. Get a 5 port 2.5G smart switch (only 1 2.5G port needed on it). Set 2 ports as LACP on that, then connct the 2.5G uplink to the BR1 Pro WAN port. Now you have LACP and 2Gbps, albeit doing it upstream. Then if you need to add an additoinal WAN, you can connect them to that switch on separate VLAN’s and use the vWAN feature (may need a license) to add 1 or more additional WAN’s to your BR1 Pro.
Once you have multiple WAN’s connected to your BR1 Pro, you can use the devices built-in Outbound Policy engine to setup priority and load balancing to “aggregate” those multiple WAN connections.
I clearly got mixed concepts here for myself. I’ll open a new thread for my use case
Example what i need:
I need speed on lan 700mps.
May be already called wan bonding and released, not sure.
I am new with Peplink.
I just shown before how this released and called in other devices.
What you are describing is not possible with any router without doing something else. LACP/LAG does not do what you are describing over multiple connection types.
Peplink supports Load Balancing or WAN Bonding over SpeedFusion over multiple WANs and types.
With Load Balancing you can balance sessions over multiple WANs, this is mainly beneficial to distribute the load over all WAN connections. But you won’t be able to do a single stream of data over all connections at the same time. You don’t need LACP/LAG for this.
With SpeedFusion Bonding you can combine any type of WAN connection. You do need a second endpoint to make the SpeedFusion VPN link with. This can be a physical Peplink or something like FusionHub Solo run at Vultr for a few bucks a month.
And you can also use SpeedFusion Connect for this, which is included with PrimeCare.
Do keep in mind WAN Bonding does have an overhead and might not be able to get the results you’re hoping for with connections that are heavily different in terms of latency and speed consistency.
What you are wanting is not possible. With any device.
You can load balance or overflow, it will send 500mbps worth of traffic out one, when that fills up, send up to 200mbps out the second.
If you want to “WAN bond” that is possible, but keep in mind, that has a typical 18% overhead, so a (500+200)*0.82 you would realistically be looking at about 574mbps total as an end result. So if you need 700mbps, you will need a third 200mbps WAN to combine, and also your fusionhub endpoint to be performant enough to handle the load.
Also keep in mind that all 3 connections would need to be similar in latency as well, or it will reduce the throughput further.
