I wouldn't necessarily say that a layer 2 mesh is more difficult to
troubleshoot than a layer 3 mesh with tunnels on top to achieve layer 2
functionality is... :)
L2 mesh networks can be quite scalable, especially when separating end
user traffic by performing l3 routing over the l2 mesh or by usi
I can't think of a reason why anyone would deploy a layer 2 mesh with
an Ethernet based medium (which wifi inherently is). Conventional
wisdom in large scale sp architecture is to do anything of any size or
complexity in layer 3. Layer 2 is really bad at scalability and
really hard to tro
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 20:52 -0400, Matt Hardy wrote:
> Yes a layer 2 mesh is protocol dependent, so you're stuck to IP traffic
> only.
Oops... i mean, Layer 3 is protocol dependent :)
> Also, when using a layer 3 mesh, roaming and convergence time can also
> increase (slowing things down) a
Yes a layer 2 mesh is protocol dependent, so you're stuck to IP traffic
only.
Also, when using a layer 3 mesh, roaming and convergence time can also
increase (slowing things down) as when things move around, extra things
have to happen... layer 3 stuff... OLSR tables updated, IPs updated, ARP
entr
Tom Sharples wrote:
> Yep, just like a bridge is better than a router :-)
Yup, hence the quotation marks.
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Yep, just like a bridge is better than a router :-)
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> (Layer 2 meshes, I have heard from others, are "better", but I'm not
> exactly sure why this is the case, to be honest.)
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Charles N Wyble wrote:
>> (Layer 2 meshes, I have heard from others, are "better", but I'm not
>> exactly sure why this is the case, to be honest.)
>>
>
> Well. It's completely transparent and application/protocol independent.
Lately, for whatever reason, I've had to radically change IP addre
Rogelio wrote:
> Matt Hardy wrote:
>
>> I guess one question would be is it a Layer 2 or Layer 3 mesh? That
>> would influence what options you have.
>>
>
> Good question. Thus far, I've only played with "layer 2" meshes.
> (MobileIP is, I believe, a "layer 3" one, right?)
>
Yes tha
Matt Hardy wrote:
> I guess one question would be is it a Layer 2 or Layer 3 mesh? That
> would influence what options you have.
Good question. Thus far, I've only played with "layer 2" meshes.
(MobileIP is, I believe, a "layer 3" one, right?)
(Layer 2 meshes, I have heard from others, are "b
For those who were curious as to what I did on my "multiple gateway"
question, I actually ended up installing pfsense today and playing
around with it for several hours.
Once I kick around the "lagg" (link aggregation) features a bit, I'll
let you know how they all work.
The GUI isn't quite as
I guess one question would be is it a Layer 2 or Layer 3 mesh? That
would influence what options you have.
-Matt
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:43 -0700, Rogelio wrote:
> Rogelio wrote:
> > I would like roaming, actually. Ideally, the entire mesh would be on
> > the same LAN subnet and each user w
Rogelio wrote:
> I would like roaming, actually. Ideally, the entire mesh would be on
> the same LAN subnet and each user would be assigned the gateway that was
> the least congested.
I think that pfsense is probably the "easiest" answer, particularly
since it has hotspot URL forwarding built
Dustin Jurman wrote:
> If you don't need roaming capability treat each one as it's own network or
> you could create one centralized distribution facility.
I would like roaming, actually. Ideally, the entire mesh would be on
the same LAN subnet and each user would be assigned the gateway that w
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Subject: [WISPA] multiple gateway question in mesh scenario
What do others here do in situations where a mesh has multiple gateways?
Say you have a large mesh and each "egrees" is a satellite uplink to a
different ISP provider.
Would you just assign multiple gateways on
What do others here do in situations where a mesh has multiple gateways?
Say you have a large mesh and each "egrees" is a satellite uplink to a
different ISP provider.
Would you just assign multiple gateways on the DHCP server?
Or would you use something like RADIUS to assign different network
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