Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-21 Thread Butch Evans
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Rogelio wrote: I would encourage you to seriously test one out before you balk at the price. Hit me offline, and I'll give you my cell phone. I can tell you more about these little doodads than you'll ever care to know! What about standards compliance? Are they

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-21 Thread Rogelio
Butch Evans wrote: What about standards compliance? Are they compatible with 802.11x? Neither 802.1x or 802.11 compliance is a problem on BelAir gear (not completely sure which one you meant) http://www.belairnetworks.com/resources/ I've got access to manuals (that aren't available

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-20 Thread Jerry Richardson
core switch. Works very well. __ Jerry Richardson airCloud Communications -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rogelio Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:03 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-20 Thread Butch Evans
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Rogelio wrote: So, I have about 50 access points in various remote places, and when people connect to one SSID at each of those, they will be L2TP tunneled back to my local network where I can authenticate them via RADIUS and give them an address via DHCP. I understand

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-20 Thread Rogelio
Jerry Richardson wrote: It's easy if your AP's support multiple SSID and VLAN tagging per SSID. We have 10 VLAN/SSID combinations for various agencies such as Fire, Sherrif, local PD, nearby city PD, city inspectors, etc. These VLAN's run over our Canopy network to our headend and show up

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-20 Thread Rogelio
Butch Evans wrote: I understand now. What kind of AP is it? BelAir BA100s (dual radios) and BA200s (quad radios), some of which are meshed together. Many of the BA200 units will have ethernet or fiber egress. Do the end users do the L2TP tunnel or are you wanting the AP/router to do

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-20 Thread Rogelio
Butch Evans wrote: I understand now. What kind of AP is it? BelAir BA100s (dual radios) and BA200s (quad radios), some of which are meshed together. Many of the BA200 units will have ethernet or fiber egress. Do the end users do the L2TP tunnel or are you wanting the AP/router to do

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-20 Thread Butch Evans
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Rogelio wrote: BelAir BA100s (dual radios) and BA200s (quad radios), some of which are meshed together. Many of the BA200 units will have ethernet or fiber egress. Ok. No specific experience with those, but of the type of network you are building, I do have experience.

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-20 Thread Rogelio
Butch Evans wrote: In the deployments I've done with similar designs, most are running fine, still. There is one instance where the original design needs to be redone because the parameters I was given were WAY under what they ended up with. I was given a total number of hosts to be 50

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-20 Thread Butch Evans
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Rogelio wrote: Do you have these features on other wireless solutions that you deal with? In many ways, Mikrotik can do some of the same thing. It's a matter of proper design in both wireless configuration and firewall (even on the bridge). Much of this functionality

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-20 Thread Rogelio
Butch Evans wrote: In many ways, Mikrotik can do some of the same thing. It's a matter of proper design in both wireless configuration and firewall (even on the bridge). Much of this functionality can be configured using various tunneling technologies in MT as well. Most of the real work

[WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-19 Thread Rogelio
I'm planning out a very large wifi rollout for a cable company, and I'm looking to use L2TP tunnels in order to flatten the entire network so that there is mobility options with some mission critical stuff that runs on one SSID. Anyone else have any advice when doing this? I've got Cisco

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-19 Thread Butch Evans
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Rogelio wrote: I'm planning out a very large wifi rollout for a cable company, and I'm looking to use L2TP tunnels in order to flatten the entire network so that there is mobility options with some mission critical stuff that runs on one SSID. Anyone else have any advice

Re: [WISPA] l2tp tunnels for AP mobility

2008-09-19 Thread Rogelio
Butch Evans wrote: perhaps I'm missing something, but what does the tunnel have to do with the single SSID? Maybe that's not what you meant, but I'm stuck with trying to figure out how they're related. :-( What is the this that you are looking for advice on? So, I have about 50 access