Butch Evans is doing an online mikrotik training here shortly if you want to go the mikrotik route and arent familiar with their products yet
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, depending on your monitoring system, you should be able to track CPE > and AP bandwidth as is. > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The availability of inexpensive Mikrotik routers made this much less >> of an issue than it used to be. Even at micropops that I bridge, I put a >> small Mikrotik like a 450G or a 2011 there as a managed switch. That way >> it can be converted to routed, often without a truck roll. >> >> One question is how you assign IP addresses to customers. Static with >> NAT in CPE? DHCP? PPPoE? Do you NAT multiple customers to one public >> IP? This may determine which approach is easiest to migrate to. Router at >> each tower with block of public IPs? VLANs to central site with big >> central router? >> >> >> *From:* That One Guy <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 10:23 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged >> networktorouted. >> >> not to hijack you, but there are some who maintain a fully bridged >> network and use VLAN instead of routing, this I am curious about, it may be >> a cost effective solution for you as well. >> >> I started our migration 4ish years ago and had the budget cut out from >> under me with only half the routers deployed, let me tell you, a 50/50 >> network sucks a great deal to manage. whatever you do, make sure you have >> all your routers on your desk before you begin >> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Everyone seems to have lived through this evolution at some point. >>> A bridged WISP is asking for trouble. >>> >>> How many APs and how many sites? Are the switches at the sites capable >>> of supporting VLANs? That is where I would start. Either that or >>> replacing the switches with routers. Personally, one router with VLANS to >>> each AP via managed switches would be my preference. >>> >>> *From:* Brandon Yuchasz <[email protected]> >>> *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 9:10 AM >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged network >>> torouted. >>> >>> >>> I am looking for help converting our network from bridged to routed. >>> This is something I don’t have a lot of background in but I also don’t want >>> to end the process having a system I can’t fix so I will need someone that >>> is willing to both do the work and teach me at the same time. Depending on >>> how the process works in regards to time I am hoping to spend an hour a >>> week working over the phone and through a remote desktop app. >>> >>> >>> >>> My main reasons for working on this now are I need to see bandwidth use >>> per SM, per AP, and have better ways of tracking both long term. We are >>> just to blind right now and starting to really grow again I need to get it >>> under control now before we get to large. >>> >>> >>> >>> I am open to suggestions on routers but already had purchased microtik >>> and butches scripts which after trying and failing to get it to work never >>> implemented. >>> >>> >>> >>> Contact me off list [email protected] if you can help. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Brandon Yuchasz >>> >>> GogebicRange.net >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your >> team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >> > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
