Feature Request - ARP Monitor Failover Bond on dual port radios

Good morning! I’m new here, so if this is an inappropriate place for this, please feel free to kick me and laugh.

It would be very handy if dual-port radios like the ePMP 4600c that we use had an option for arp-mon bond. It’s very simple to do in Linux. Here’s an example situation:

I have a 20km 60GHz link. Unfortunately it’s not operating in Siberia, so I need a rain-fade. Currently we build mini PC’s with at least 3 network interfaces, built a bridge with a bond and put the 60GHz as the primary and the rain fade link as the backup. Works great, but it also means adding a PC at the tower site, and that means putting a whole cable run up to both the primary and backup radios, then also to whatever switching hardware I happen to have on the tower. I’m sure everyone knows how annoying that could be at FM sites!

Instead, let’s say a bond is inside the ePMP with the primary port being the SFP+ and the backup being the WLAN interface. Set the ethernet port as a bridge onto the bond and connect that port to whatever is on the tower. Tada! Automatic failovers that work in a matter of a few milliseconds.

Yes, I know that MikroTik switching hardware has an arp monitor bond, but they face multiple major disadvantages.

Of course, the primary radio on the tower may be multi-gigabit, so having the gigabit port on the radio act as a bridge might not be ideal. I’ll be honest, I’ve been pitching this idea to Ubiquiti, since it’s such a mind-numbingly simple piece of code, but I’m not sure they still have any developers left.


And also, could someone who managed the site please fix the “Point-to-oint” on the PTP graphic on Fixed Wireless Access - Cambium Networks ? :sweat_smile: Bugs me every time I see it.

:laughing: Thank you for pointing this out. I’ve let the relevant people know (and also mentioned the “netowrk” typo).