Then how do I get layer2 back to the pppoe concentrator?
Randy
On 3/25/2011 10:18 AM, Scott Reed wrote:
What do the VLANs do for you?
Why not just route it all and let OSPF handle the routing?
On 3/25/2011 12:05 PM, Randy Cosby wrote:
We have a new network we've built out with Mikrotik backhauls and
RB450G's at each tower. The towers are all connected to each other
in a ring, as shown below. Users off each AP are connecting over
PPPOE through a PPPOE concentrator (Cisco 2811) at the main tower.
At the Main Tower, we use a cisco 3560 switch instead of a Mikrotik
router.
Main Tower : PPPOE concentrator, backhauls to Tower 1 and 3
Tower 1 : 2 AP's, sitemonitor, etc. BH's to main tower and tower 2.
Tower 2 : 2 AP's, sitemonitor, etc. BH's to tower 1 and tower 3.
Tower 3 : 2 AP's, sitemonitor, etc. BH's to tower 3 and main tower
(Internet)
\
Main Tower ----- Tower 3
| |
| |
Tower 1---------- Tower 2
We need to have private IP access from the main tower to each of the
devices for management, as well as have layer 2 ethernet from each
enduser device back to the PPPPOE concentrator. Currently we have
separate vlans from the main tower to tower 1 and tower 3. We
manually (working on scripting) swap the active vlan in case of an
outage, but that is not optimal. We've looked at the Mikrotik mesh,
but it didn't seem very reliable - breaks in the ring would take a
long time to "heal." We didn't spend much time on that though, so we
could possibly do more optimization to get that working well. Just
curious what others are using to get automatic fail-over and load
sharing in this type of scenario.
Thanks!
--
Randy Cosby | InfoWest, Inc | www.infowest.com
Vice President | 435-674-0165 x 2010 | facebook.com/infowest
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