Hi Randy,
You could run MPLS/VPLS out to your towers, I just did an
implementation, there were a few pitfalls but in the end it works great.
Also, MSTP is backwards compatible with STP, even on Cisco's ;)
Regards,
Andrew
On 30/03/2011 9:36 a.m., Randy Cosby wrote:
Scratch that last question - I am mistaken. We don't need stp on the
wireless bridges.
On 3/29/2011 2:28 PM, Randy Cosby wrote:
It was a rhetorical question :)
I was hoping to stick with Mikrotiks, but it's not looking good.
There are others who would rather put hardended cisco switches at the
towers. Can get them around $350 on ebay. Not nearly as
power-efficient or space-saving.
Another option is to wait for the newer RB750's with bigger frame
support and run MPLS.
I'm wondering though, if we run something like pvstp on the ciscos,
will it pass transparently through the mikrotik wireless bridges?
Seemed like we had to turn stp on the wireless bridges to work
properly yesterday.
Set up as bridge / client wds.
Randy
On 3/29/2011 1:20 PM, Butch Evans wrote:
On 03/29/2011 02:01 PM, Randy Cosby wrote:
Spent a day playing with STP and got it optimized quite a bit --
until we tried to put vlans into the mix. We like to run a separate
vlan to each tower. Cisco just wants to do pvstp or mstp, not the
ancient stp protocol. Why doesn't Mikrotik support pvstp or mstp?
You're asking me? lol. Maybe for the same reason they don't
support the LONG list of things that I have asked them for....they
don't want to (yet?). You have only a few options:
1. Don't do vlan. Find some other way to segment your traffic.
2. Place a 3560 (or other cisco switch) at each tower and run your
bridging protocol from there.
3. Wait for MT to support your preferred protocol (may be a LONG wait)
4. Replace the Cisco device with a MT device that can support a
bridge protocol that can handle the vlan traffic. Maybe you can
make this work with MT's HWMP+ (not compatible with standard HWMP)
meshing protocol.
For me, I always opt to work around limitations in the tool I use to
build the network. In this case, that would leave the above
choices. Personally, I'd like to see them implement proper (and
complete) IPv6 support ahead of ANY work on bridging protocols, but
my wishes carry as much weight there as do yours.
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