Hi Mark,

Is there any benefit of trying to do it as (2) seperate l3/l2's vs the
single l3/l2? (not sure that I think it would be easy to monitor
thesingle  L2) (and just thinking aloud here). With the bridge control
utils or routing either is feasible.

i.e.
is this

farm
lan2/subnet2
mountain
lan3/subnet3
DC
lan4/subnet4

any better / worse than

lan2/subnet2
mountain
lan2/subnet2
DC
lan4/subnet4

IMO - think that monitoring / troubleshooting the l2 might offset the
benefit of the single lan which hosts the repeater. (It's possible
that you might get into a scenario where you would have to
troubleshoot "lan difficulties" and not being able to tell where
things happened would be a downer.

Is there anything special required inband of l2 that would make
bridging better than routing? (Like crazy .l2 (ipx or other) frames
that you have to pass thru? )

--Adrian


On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Mark Ter Morshuizen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I want to set up a wireless link between where I live and the nearest town.
> There's a mountain in the way so I need a repeater station at the top of it.
>
> My setup and hardware looks like this:
>
> (farm)
> PC Engines Wrap 2C
> Miorotik R52H mini PCI card with atheros AR5413
> 5.8GHz dish antenna
>
> (mountain)
> PC Engines Wrap 2C
> 2x Miorotik R52H mini PCI card with atheros AR5413
> 2x 5.8GHz dish antenna
>
> (town)
> Mikrotik RB411
> Miorotik R52H mini PCI card with atheros AR5413
> DSL modem
>
> I'd like to put OpenWRT on the Wraps.
>
> I would like to run my pppoe session on one of the boxes connected to the LAN
> of the Wrap at (farm) so I can use dynamic DNS etc.
>
> What would be the best way to set this up? Is there a repeater mode that uses
> 2 cards? Everything I've managed to find discusses using an AP as a repeater.
> I obviously need to do something differently with my 2 radios.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Mark Ter Morshuizen
> www.itbox.co.za
> 2U Rackmount Casings: http://www.rackmount.co.za
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