I have been scouring the Routerboard.com site in search of a solution. We have some towers that feed several other towers using Mikrotik or UBNT as backhauls between the towers. Right now, if one of the BHs becomes unresponsive (which has happened to both TIk and UBNT gear lately), the only option currently at my disposal is to use the Sitemonitor relay to drop power from the batter bank to the fuse block, which of course power cycles everything except the site monitor itself.
We have a few towers with two 9 port tiks (some with 3 Tiks) and all the combined radios attached. Power cycling all of them seems reckless. Once in a while something else doesn't come back. Sometimes it's the primary Tik that has the sitemonitor plugged into. I was hoping that I could find a Tik router that had all the ports available to do POE-Out as well, so that I could control the radios individually. Apparently, this doesn't exist. Each of these towers (5 main "distribution towers) has an upgrade scheduled to the RB1000AHx2 but this doesn't have that function. All of the tower backhaul legs are OSPF to they need the individual path to the interface for OSPF. I suppose that if I had some "other" device that sat in between the TIK and the BH radios that did POE-Out, that I could run all the BHs into it, then an additional cable to each port on the TIk. That's kind of a kludge. Maybe there is some other good solution ? ;) Paul McCall, Pres. PDMNet / Florida Broadband 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 office 772-473-0352 cell www.pdmnet.com<http://www.pdmnet.com/> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20131225/654a69ab/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
