Yikes! Money well spent, I must say!
-----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Burgess Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:38 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Authentication Methods We have PowerRouter 732s (under 1500 MSRP) doing over 2500 PPPoE sessions without issues, and PowerRouter 2282s with over 5k currently. Just a FYI. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Burgess, CCNA, A+, Mikrotik Certified Trainer WISPA Board Member - wispa.org Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services WISPA Vendor Member Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net LIVE On-Line Mikrotik Training Author of "Learn RouterOS" -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jason Hensley Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:29 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Authentication Methods I think first off, why the concern over Mikrotik longevity? Do you not think the company will be around, or do you just not see it scaling (for whatever reason) to the level that you want / need? Personally, I'm not sure what you're looking for that's not already out there. Build a mikrotik concentrator with a good spec server (or two), dropin Freeradius Oas someone else already mentioned) and you should be good for a long time. Sent from Windows mobile device... -----Original Message----- From: Nick Huanca <n...@gaw.com> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 2:48 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Authentication Methods Hi all, I currently am working on a project to develop a sustainable, manufacturer agnostic, easy to maintain and provision authentication system for our ISP. We have a mix of access points from Alvarion, Trango, MikroTik, Canopy, and others. We're currently running a distributed PPPoE model with MikroTik PPPoE concentrators. We're concerned about MikroTik's longevity, reliability and support as we move towards a more centralized PPPoE model where all our sessions terminate at a CO. We're looking to migrate over 1,000 customers, currently across 15 or so concentrators, to one single concentrator with either load balancing or redundancy. We're also trying to keep our decisions based around a future IPv6 implementation. My question is if anyone has had any experience in deploying large scale PPPoE with a centralized methodology. I have investigated the Open Source options such as rp-pppoe and others but have found that they don't offer any load-balancing or redundancy options, which are important considerations when moving to a centralized model. These packages also don't offer any type of integrated rate-limiting or burst-limiting based on RADIUS. Does anyone have any experience with other types of centralized authentication for customers that support IPv6 and include integration of rate-limiting/bursting? I have reached out to a Cisco integrator, ImageStream, Fine Point Technologies (http://www.finepoint.com/servpoet.html), and some others to find solutions. Thanks in advance, -- Nick Huanca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
