We use VLAN's on every tower. Typically, we have a single-power gigabit MikroTik router, going into a 24- or 48-port switch.
There are many VLAN's between the switch and MT. Some ports on the VLAN are untagged ports (i.e. you plug it in, and go - it comes "out" on the MT port as tagged with a VLAN ID), some are untagged and tagged. For instance, we have all our backhauls in one VLAN group. They all communicate OSPF. In theory, the router could go down, and backhauls will continue communicating. AP's are all in their own management VLAN, and then we use a tagged VLAN which the AP untags and bridges with the wirelesss interface. So all custmoer traffic is seperated from management, backhauls, etc. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Phil Curnutt <pcurn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anybody out there using Vlan tagging to segment their network? Right now > we > are running unrouted level 1 with fixed IP's and starting to see a lot of > bandwidth being eaten up with broadcast packets. Vlan tagging and trunking > seems to be an easy way to segment, but we can't seem to wrap our heads > around how to impliment. The easiest way seems to be tagging at the edge > and then assigning switch ports along the way to direct traffic to and from > the gateway router, but then someone says no you need to trunk from the > router to the switchs. > > Any thoughts? > > Phil > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
