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. >The AP/routers will take care of everything in a manner that is >completely transparent to the users. This is most certainly the easiest method. >I'm concerned less about how to do it (I could go through the >motions with the Cisco gear in between) and am more interested in >hearing other's experiences, tips, and best practices. Well, without knowing more about the network, it's hard to give any real advice, but you are familiar with the design parameters that make a good network. You may think about DHCP Relay, too. This would make it so the network does not have to be flat, unless there are other factors that require it. 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 and they now are running with 360+ hosts. YIKES! Either way, I have used VLAN for this type of thing, L2TP and even (only once) EoIP. All 3 do what we needed to do, so the design choice you mention should hold up well. My only advice is to watch the number of hosts that will sit on a bridged segment, ESPECIALLY the wireless portion of that segment. Wireless is not always as forgiving or bad network design choices as hard wired ethernet. :-) -- ******************************************************************** *Butch Evans *Professional Network Consultation * *Network Engineering *MikroTik RouterOS * *573-276-2879 *ImageStream * *http://www.butchevans.com/ *StarOS and MORE * *http://blog.butchevans.com/ *Wired or wireless Networks * *Mikrotik Certified Consultant *Professional Technical Trainer * ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
