Well ya, 10 minutes of doing the import manually. But the whole point is to not waste 10 minutes on something that should be a problem of the past.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Butch Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 16:49 -0400, Josh Luthman wrote: >> I've tried restoring on 532, 493, 411, 433 with enough failures that >> it is faster to just do the import while reading the export line by >> line. Other boards I've just replaced and done a template from the >> wiki or just did what needed to be done to make it work. > > about 90% of the routers on MOST of the WISP networks I've dealt with, > you only need about 10 minutes to configure a replacement. Backups are > important only for those routers that get changed often. For example, a > router with a DHCP server or PPPoE concentrator without RADIUS > authentication. Beyond that, you are only a couple of minutes to get a > router replaced. > > This brings up an important concept related to scalable network design. > For my networks, I had routers that were Access points, which had a > pppoe server or dhcp server, ran OSPF and had some firewall rules on > them. I could take the configuration from ANY of the routers on that > network, change a few IPs and restore from that. Other routers were > used in a core routing function. Again, just a few changes and all > routers with that function were interchangeable. Since all of the > "unique" stuff, like IP address ranges and such, were centralized on a > RADIUS server, the need for complicated backup strategies didn't > exist. > > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation * > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * > * NOTE THE NEW PHONE NUMBER: 702-537-0979 * > ******************************************************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
