Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Nash
...@uwol.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls That's scary. I've known that Nagios can do this as well, but depends on the topology. We do it manually as well, setting the far side of the non-active

[WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread Mark Nash
We've been putting in redundant or alternate backhauls to our distros that have more than 20 users. I'm curious to see how others feel about this, and when you decide to install a redundant or alternate backhaul to a tower distro? Mark Nash UnwiredWest 78 Centennial Loop Suite E Eugene, OR

Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread Travis Johnson
We did this with all of our critical links last summer. It was the best thing we ever did... it has saved us several times this winter already. :) Travis Microserv Mark Nash wrote: We've been putting in redundant or alternate backhauls to our distros that have more than 20 users. I'm

Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread can...@believewireless.net
We setup a redundant circle around our network with OSPF. Highly recommend it. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: We did this with all of our critical links last summer. It was the best thing we ever did... it has saved us several times this winter already. :)

Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread Travis Johnson
The only issue with the "ring" is being able to tell when a link has switched over or even worse is when a link is marginal so the link "flaps" back and forth, often causing all kinds of problems with traffic flows and OSPF updates. We have our backup links set that we have to switch to them

Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread Chuck Hogg
://www.shelbybb.com From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:00 PM To: can...@believewireless.net; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls The only issue with the ring

Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread Patrick Shoemaker
Nagios. Or for non-realtime, syslog. -- Patrick Shoemaker Vector Data Systems LLC shoemak...@vectordatasystems.com office: (301) 358-1690 x36 http://www.vectordatasystems.com Travis Johnson wrote: The only issue with the ring is being able to tell when a link has switched over or even worse

Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread can...@believewireless.net
Yes, our links failover automatically with OSPF. We still get alerts when links go down though so we know about flapping due to interference or an outage. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Patrick Shoemaker shoemak...@vectordatasystems.com wrote: Nagios. Or for non-realtime, syslog. --

Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread Nathan Stooke
links!!! -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of can...@believewireless.net Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:53 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls Yes, our links failover automatically

Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread jp
We like redundant when it's too much trouble or logistics to quickly repair one link. A redundant link is good when the problem is 260' up a tower that's a 90 minute drive away. Usually I have the spare link turned off in the AP to conserve spectrum. We are often tight on spectrum for 5.8ghz

Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls

2009-02-02 Thread Mark Nash
://www.avolutia.com http://www.shelbybb.com From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:00 PM To: can...@believewireless.net; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Redundant / Alternate Backhauls The only issue