I think that's probably the #1 use case for most Mikrotiks...
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Sam Morris via Mikrotik-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Have any of you used one of these? We're looking for routers for > intermediate, smaller tower sites. The layout will basically be: > > PoP1---ST1---ST2---ST3---ST4---ST5---ST6---PoP2 > > ST=small tower > > The idea being that we use something on the ST locations that will run > OSPF so that if a link goes down in the middle for some reason, OSPF > will route packets automatically to the PoP that it's still able to reach. > > So say for instance if this happened: > > PoP1---ST1---ST2---ST3---ST4-x-ST5---ST6---PoP2 > > (x=link down) > > the traffic from ST5 and ST6 will only try to go to PoP2, whereas the > traffic from ST1 through ST4 would go out PoP1. That 3011 router kind of > seems like overkill, but the price isn't bad ($145) and it should handle > any amount of traffic that would get thrown at it through these smaller > tower sites. > > Thanks > Sam > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik-users >
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