One way to conserve IP space is to route a subnet to each "tower" rather than each AP. Have every AP plugged into a switch at the tower, and then into a router before it leaves that tower. That way you can use up the entire subnet before adding another. ;)
Travis Microserv Alan Bryant wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Marlon K. Schafer <o...@odessaoffice.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Alan, >> >> We're in the process of doing this too. >> >> We're going to run a bridged backbone (mostly) with routing AP's. Mikrotik >> in our case. >> >> For IP space we went to ARIN and got our own (two upstreams on opposite >> sides of the network). >> >> We were able to get 8 class c's this way. We're also subnetting a LOT of >> network space. >> >> When we run out of space on an AP we'll just add another subnet to that AP >> and route it as well. Shouldn't be too big of a deal. >> >> Hope that helps! >> marlonMarlon (and others), >> > > Thanks a lot for your reply. You confirmed what I suspected. Like I > said, I had never encountered this before. Good luck in your redesign. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
