Re: [WISPA] Martin's call for more radio frequency spectrum foremergency responders

2005-09-27 Thread Tom DeReggi
Auction, I hate that evil word. Really guys, if there is any time to hammer congressional legislators and Home land security personelle, NOW is the time. Before our precious spectrum is auctioned off to the special interets. Auctioning off 700Mhz to a major IELC could be the death of

[WISPA] Lightning protecting WRAPs

2005-09-27 Thread Tom DeReggi
What are people doing for WRAP board lightning protection? Basically the WRAP board has a part that blows up, if it receives more than 21 Volts to its DC input. So a typical CAT5 Lightning protector that protects the DC pairs at only 35V, 50V or 60V would pretty much be useless for protecting

[WISPA] Mikrotik and VLANs

2005-09-27 Thread Tom DeReggi
Has anyone tested Mikrotik's VLAN support over the Wireless ports (Atheros) for large packet support (1500 bytes + additional bytes for VLAN )? I know that you can't layer VLAN on top of two pre-existed bridged ports, its a limitation of Linux. But you can bridge a VLAN interface/port to

Re: [WISPA] Martin's call for more radio frequency spectrum foremergency responders

2005-09-27 Thread k claffy
[not reading this list regularly, but tom hit a nerve]: tom et al caida (www.caida.org) is an internet data analysis/research organization whose mission includes informing public policy, aimed toward improving policy 'toward congruence' with our best empirical (scientifically grounded)