Load balance LAN.

[afrogley]

My setup cannot be unique!!

I have 2 bridge wifi connections between Office and Remote Warehouse (about 150m away). I'm looking to upgrade both these connections and how they are balanced.

ATM I have 2 switches in the warehouse - one for each Bridge - so I hard set the 'balance' by plugging into the relevant switch.

I would like to be able to have a software/hardware solution to enable me to have 1 network in the warehouse and traffic travels down which ever bridge is least loaded (with priority traffic for IP Phones).

Please tell me there is kit out there that can do this ... and on a budget !!

Ta

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

What you want are a pair of switches (one switch for each end of the radio link) which will support link aggregation.

Link aggregation is a standard technology so you shouldn't have too much trouble finding what you want.

Look for "Supports 802.3ad" in the switch specifications. For example, if you go to:

http://www.procurve.com/products/switches/switch2524-2512/overview.htm#stadProc

You will see this:

Standards and protocols
General protocols
IEEE 802.1D MAC Bridges
IEEE 802.1p Priority
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
IEEE 802.1w Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
IEEE 802.3x Flow Control


IP multicast
RFC 3376 IGMPv3


MIBs
RFC 1213 MIB II
RFC 1493 Bridge MIB RFC 2613 SMON MIB
RFC 2674 802.1p and IEEE 802.1Q Bridge MIB


Network management
RFC 2819 Four groups of RMON: 1 (statistics), 2 (history), 3 (alarm) and 9 (events)
RFC 3164 BSD syslog Protocol
SNMPv1/v2c
XRMON


Security
IEEE 802.1X Port Based Network Access Control
RFC 1492 TACACS+
SSHv1 Secure Shell

 

[afrogley]

Thank you!!