If it's all bridged then ARP tables fill up, memory runs low,
and all kinds of things happen. I know Forbes has mentioned a
bridged network on here before. I would put your money into
routing the network and then get rid of the mikrotiks if they are
still problems after the routing is done. You will be amazed at
how much a routed network will improve the quality of the
network. There are other things he could try to hunt down, but
until all that bridging is stopped it will be an uphill battle.
Justin
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From: Forbes Mercy
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Reply-To: WISPA General List <<[email protected]>[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:27:25 -0700
To: WISPA General List <<[email protected]>[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik
How my day ended, I really don't mean to slight Mikrotik or
it's dealers. People who route their networks will have a
fraction of the problems I have but I have to admit the excuse of
"must be your employees" or " that never happens" got old about 20
outages ago. Today I had 8 major outages, 4 of them we found a
bridge or ports erased and the IP displaying 0.0.0.0. This was an
easy fix, log in and add the bridge and ports then click on the IP
and it came back legitimate again. Shame we had to make the trip
to the towers to do that. The other 4 not so easy, they showed
the IP correctly but not in Winbox and they had the MAC address as
00.00.00.00.00, well 12 times, you get it. Those we had to pull
the backhaul and reset it then reprogram it. A hellish day but we
didn't miss the fact that the UBNT units never crashed no matter
what this crazy bridging issue was. It was just a real bad day to
be in this business but I appreciate the help that I got from
Mikrotik dealers who really care to help resolve this but are as
equally frustrated as I was, while aging about 3 years in one
day. Like watching a baby sleep the night is uneventful after a
15 hour work day and my with my added worry about taking 4
vacation days this weekend. I wish I could trust the equipment
from overreacting to every damn bit of unfriendly traffic by
shutting down the LAN port or resetting the radio but I can't,
it's my employees problem now but it will certainly take away from
the joy of my time off since I know their attitude is more like,
'let them wait' then my feeling of 'people down is lost income', employees....
Forbes
On 9/16/2010 7:44 PM, RickG wrote:
For me, the StarOS/WRAP combo performed very well since 2004. The
only issues I had were coax related. Otherwise, I agree, I dont
like equipment you have to put together. I save my tinkering around
for personal stuff but much rather have a fully designed radio for
commercial purposes.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mark Nash - Lists
<<[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
There's something to be said for "losing faith" in a technology. For me,
it's the "build-it-yourself" radios. All of them. Mikrotik & StarOS. For
me, I see such a high service call rate for repairs, the need to put in
redundant backhauls sooner than later because we can almost guarantee
something's going to malfunction.
Ubiquiti has brought to us good enough pricing to have us make the "leap of
faith" and hopefully their product is more stable over time,
keeping much of
the success or failure of a unit out of the hands of the installer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Forbes Mercy"
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To: "WISPA General List" <<[email protected]>[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:04 AM
Subject: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik
> I have about 30 seconds to leave this, I'm going to pull every
> Mikrotik I have, that's about 30 radios and replace them with UBNIT.
> I'm sick and tired of spending all last night because two radios just
> dropped their IP setting to 0.0.0.0 and the other MAC to 0.0.0.0, today
> another system storm crash, what stayed up, my two Ubiquiti towers. You
> can say what you want but I have daily outages, we never find the cause
> and I'm sick of it... flame away I don't care I'm just sick of Mikrotik.
>
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