Ubiquiti does have the equivalent feature... it's called "Client isolation"

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 9:01 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd consider putting the data VLAN on the switch port rather than the
> wireless gear.  Make the switch port facing the AP a hybrid port with a
> native VLAN so all untagged traffic gets tagged with the native VLAN ID.
> You can still retain your universal management VLAN that way.  And yeah a
> different ID for each AP which is on the same switched network.  If you add
> the data VLAN to the wireless devices then the config of the devices will
> be different at each tower and that'll complicate your life quite a bit.
>
> SM Isolation is a feature on Cambium PMP and ePMP.  The AP won't forward
> traffic from one SM to another, if SM's need to exchange traffic that has
> to go through the router upstream from the AP's.  This might be slightly
> less efficient in the case that someone actually does this, but it's pretty
> rare to have intentional traffic going SM to SM......usually that's just
> broadcast chatter which you're better off if you drop.  I do not know if
> Ubiquiti has an equivalent feature.
>
>
> On 6/20/2021 12:52 PM, Jan-GAMs wrote:
>
> I thought I had mentioned earlier an "all Ubiquiti" network?  And I'm
> fairly certain you're not discussing mechanical isolation mounts for motors
> when you are referring to SM isolation for Canopy? (laugh time).
>
> I think we are small enough that a seperate VLAN per AP is possible to
> do.  Thanks for the suggestion, plus it will save us money we don't have.
> Now you are saying the AP should have it's own VLAN.  Are you also saying
> the Downlinks which connect the next tower which are also configured as an
> AP should also have their own VLAN?  Or are you saying that only APs which
> have customer radios connected should have their own VLAN?
>
> Presently we have every device on the same VLAN for management and most of
> the new radios seem to have only one setting for one VLAN, the older stuff
> you can add more VLANs by clicking the "add" button.  Can you point me to a
> white paper on deploying multiple VLANs in a network so I can better wrap
> my feeble brain around this?
> On 6/19/21 9:57 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
>
> Assuming you use some form of Canopy or Cambium, I presume you have SM
> isolation turned on too, right?
>
> *From:* Chuck McCown via AF
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:27 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Cc:* Chuck McCown
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] BNG dynamic provisioning Re: strange outage
>
> You need to use VLANs to pipe each AP back to your router on its own tag.
> Then the router can make sure there is no AP to AP traffic.
>
> This is the same as having a router at the tower with each AP on its own
> router port.
>
> *From:* Jan-GAMs
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 19, 2021 9:28 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] BNG dynamic provisioning Re: strange outage
>
>
> That's what we been doing for a long time.  The ubiquiti switches are
> manageable from the UISP.  We use a VLAN for management.
> On 6/19/21 7:10 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
>
> UBNT US-8-60W is $109
>
> VLAN tag each AP port.  Set up your downlink as a VLAN trunk.  Then each
> AP will have its own private channel back to your core/edge router.
> I am no VLAN expert by any means.  There are lots of experts here.  But
> this is the method I used literally 18 years ago when faced with this same
> problem.  I used a cisco managed switch that was built for wide temperature
> conditions.  2900 or 2500 or something like that.  Worked like a champ.
>
> Are you sure the ubiquity switch you have at each tower does not support
> VLANs?
>
> *From:* Jan-GAMs
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:23 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] BNG dynamic provisioning Re: strange outage
>
>
> We have in each tower a ubiquiti switch and one or two APs plus an
> uplink(to next tower towards the gateway) and a downlink(away from the
> gateway).  We don't have that many customers to support a huge investment.
>
> Ok, looks like the advice is to replace the ubiquiti switches with
> ubiquiti routers?  I haven't seen in router setup any provision for BNG,
> maybe I'm missing something.  I'd never get management willing to replace a
> $100 switch with a $3,000 Cisco router, especially on a network where we
> wouldn't make that much ROI in several years (we have a board of directors
> who keep threatening to shut us down, they're mostly from last century and
> barely know how to use a cell-phone).
>
> Am I wrong in thinking we can configure an Edgerouter X to prevent these
> multicast storms we're having in our networks?  I'm loathe to use any
> natting, can I leave these in bridge-mode and get a solution to the problem?
>
>
> On 6/18/21 5:24 PM, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
>
> Absolutely!   Glad to hear others are doing this - it’s what Amplex has
> been doing for years.
>
> I get really tired of the ‘experts’ telling everyone there is only one
> ‘right’ way to build a network, yet have never heard of this.
>
> Mark
>
> On Jun 18, 2021, at 3:48 PM, Carl Peterson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> We use the same BNG for all our residential subs in a market.  GPON,
> Active Ethernet, and Fixed Wireless.  Some of the fixed wireless stuff
> requires a hack to run the CVLANS through another box to add the second tag
> but that's cheap and easy enough. A Netonix 6 mini hanging off a switch can
> do it with either 0x88a8 or a second 0x8100 tag.  Cambium supports QinQ
> natively.
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:36 PM D. Bernardi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks.  This seems fairly common on GPON
>> networks as well so you could use this feature
>> for both GPON and Fixed Wireless on the same BGN.
>>
>>
>> At 01:59 PM 6/18/2021, you wrote:
>> >Juniper.  We have a MX5 in production and a
>> >MX204 I'm setting up right now to replace it. Â
>> >Subscriber management is additional
>> >licensing.  Not sure if just dynamic interface
>> >creation requires subscriber management
>> >licensing.  I just looked on our production BNG
>> >and it isn't using subscriber-vlan. Â
>> >
>> >subscriber-accounting
>> >Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  1Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  1 Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  0Â  Â
>> permanent
>> >
>> >Â  subscriber-authentication
>> >Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  0Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  1 Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  0Â  Â  permanent
>> >
>> >Â  subscriber-address-assignment
>> >Â  Â  Â  Â  1Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  1 Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  0Â  Â  permanent
>> >
>> >Â  subscriber-vlan
>> >Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  0Â  Â  Â  Â  Â
>> >Â  1 Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  0Â  Â  permanent
>> >
>> >Â
>> ><
>> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junose15.1/topics/concept/dynamic-interfaces-overview.html
>> >
>> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junose15.1/topics/concept/dynamic-interfaces-overview.html
>> >
>> >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:34 PM D. Bernardi
>> ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
>> >At 12:35 PM 6/18/2021, Carl Peterson wrote:
>> > >We've gone full circle - Flat to fully routed to
>> > >MPLS/VPLS over a routed network back to
>> > >flat.  You hit a scaling issue with routed
>> > >networks as you hit 10G and above, especially if
>> > >you aren't using Mikrotik or other  low cost
>> > >routing.  Real carrier grade switching is a lot
>> > >lower cost, lower power, and much easier to manage. Â
>> > >
>> > >Every customer has their own dedicated circuit
>> > >(SVLAN.CVLAN).  The corresponding interface on
>> > >the BNG is dynamically created for the
>> > >subscriber with attributes out of radius.  Â
>> > >Something like this isn't the right answer at
>> > >100 customers but you should consider it or
>> > >something like it once you go north of a few k subs.  Â
>> >
>> >
>> >What are you using for the BNG and does it
>> >require an additional license for dynamic interface creation?
>> >
>> >
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