This would be simple and easy if Mikrotik would implement L2TP LAC functionality like many of us have requested: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26698
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Randy Cosby <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS > _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
