Would you leave the AP in bridge mode and let the "tower router" take care of the routing?
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> >> 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: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
