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Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Bill Prince" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged network torouted. (More Info) Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2015 12:19 PM Yes. MRTG is free, but will make you crazy to admin if you have more than a dozen devices to monitor. Cacti is really free, other than your time. Lots of working examples. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 3/9/2015 10:17 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: > Am I thinking of MRTG? One of them is free.... > PRTG is free if you don’t monitor over 5 devices isn’t it? > *From:* Josh Luthman <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 11:15 AM > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged > network > torouted. (More Info) > Not free. http://www.paessler.com/prtg/price_list > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > PRTG is free and will monitor all your stuff if you fire up an > internal subnet for it. > *From:* Brandon Yuchasz <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 10:43 AM > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged > network torouted. (More Info) > > Alright so I have always said I am not proud too admit when I am > uneducated in an area if it means learning something I need to > know. So as embarrassing as it is Ill open to robe. > > All APs are Cambium FSK and we are now deploying the PMP450 as > well. Backhauls are a mix of companies but we are looking to try > and standardize, Cambium, and Ligowave are the most used. > > Ill just use one site because they are all evolved in a similar > way. But we have several different sites that are all very similar. > > The site I would like to do first is Tower one, 5 FSK APs (PMP450 > coming soon) This site has a shed no heat and my equipment at the > base is secured in a locking large steel box. Think of a truck > tool box. Backhauled to Tower 2 through Ligowave and tower two has > 5 FSK APs and one PMP450. This site is really remote no roads and > its all tied together in a weatherproof box. > > So no managed switches, Single IP and DHCP. Never went then way of > NAT. > > We have no real monitoring for customers date use, we limit up and > down speeds at the SM. We don’t shape no caps you get the idea. So > existing equipment is useless for this process. Our customers are > quite happy with the services but I am blind. I will most likely > double my size in the next 6 months and I can’t keep doing it this > way. > > Brandon > > *From:*Af [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy > *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 10:51 AM > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged > networktorouted. > > 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] > <mailto:[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 <mailto:[email protected]> > > *Sent:*Monday, March 09, 2015 10:23 AM > > *To:*[email protected] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 <mailto:[email protected]> > > *Sent:*Monday, March 09, 2015 9:10 AM > > *To:*[email protected] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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. >
