anybody care to throw in some ideas, right now this is just a midpoint on a customer who was installed with a CPE at their barn and a link to their house. I need to get service at the barn too. There are some strict requirements that cant be changed, challenge being no suggestionst that bypass those requirements (long term this will be a kit install for repeater points with mid point service.
1. Our AP to the house is all layer 2 (AP-CPE-Repeater AP-Repeater CPE-remote router) 2. bridges are static private IP, CPE router IPs are DHCP 3. CPE Routers are DHCP 4. CPE radios and repeater radios are vendor agnostic, just bridging 5. CPE routers will be 5 port mikrotik only 6. All 5 devices have to be monitored from powercode Example device is RB951Ui-2ND soley because thats what was in my laptop bag. Device is defaulted with no default config. Ether1 is light blue with poe in, 2-4 are dark blue, ether5 is orange with poe out. we have a bunch of nanobridges, so thats what we use for there repeater links this is the mid point device that will replace the patch cord between the CPE radio and the repeater AP So Im figuring creating 2 bridges, port 1 and port 5 "WAN" and ports 2-4 and the wlan "LAN" label port 1 CPE in, port 5 Repeater(option to power the repeater AP with this port, not a requirement) enable dhcp client on WAN, make a DHCP server on LAN and do NAT This should allow all the radios to keep their static IP, the midpont router to pull a DHCP address and the router attached to the repeater CPE to pull a dhcp address, and I should be able to cleanly monitor all 5 devices from powercode The only thing customized to the customer would be the device name and the ESSID/WPA key A. What problems am I creating? B. if a customer wants to add their own device at the midpoint and get a public IP from our public pool, is there a way to leave a universal config but allow them to attach that (had considered leaving port 2 in the WAN so their device could pull DHCP, but then they would plug a computer in) C. assuming both routers are mikrotiks, and theyre both DHCP what would it take to bridge the two LANS (like EOIP) without VLANS since the repeater radios are vendor agnostic and might not pass it? D. how do I get the "WAN" bridge to bridge the CPE and the repeater AP but only pass the MAC of the bridge and not also the physical port? This is a value add (revenue) and will be a 5-10 dollar charge on top of a repeater fee so if the absolute only option is some client specific configuration I wouldnt be completely opposed, but would prefer at the end of the day to have a default config that will just work once we get the MACs for DHCP. -- 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.
