At 9/17/2010 12:39 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: >Sounds to me like they are not familiar with RouterOS. > >Mikrotik's RouterOS does just about everything that you can imagine in >a layer 2 and layer 3 network device. It does not perform all of >these tasks flawlessly, but the platform is more then usable. Just >need to watch out for the "gotchas".
You're right.. I'm not all that familiar with RouterOS yet. I'm doing the design now and want to make sure that RouterOS can do what I want it to do. Of course there's always OpenWRT or DD-WRT but they don't seem to do as much yet. And RouterOS allows virtualization, so we can presumably test WRT hacks in a virtual partition without bringing down the production net. UBNT has a little CPU too but it just comes with, I think, Kamikaze, and nobody seems to take it seriously. Down on the ground, something bigger like Vyatta should be able to handle all of the real routing load. So I want to take each of the subscriber CPE radios (probably all UBNT) and make each one a VLAN, switched back to the big router that sits near the fiber. This is a little out of the usual "route everywhere" box. >Josh Luthman >Office: 937-552-2340 >Direct: 937-552-2343 >1100 Wayne St >Suite 1337 >Troy, OH 45373 > > > >On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Butch Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 11:29 -0400, Fred Goldstein wrote: > >> Glad to hear it's working. My plan is to put a router at the core and > >> run layer 2 beyond. How flexible is RouterOS for setting up lots of > >> VLANs? > > > > VERY flexible. > > > http://blog.butchevans.com/2010/02/to-tag-or-not-to-tag-that-is-the-question/ > > > >> I'm thinking of using HWMP+ to automatically create paths ("route", > >> but not in the IP layer) them across the network ("mesh", in the > >> literal topological sense). Thanks... > > > > Mikrotik's Mesh is working, but it's not a "great" solution just yet. > > Mesh is one of those things that MT "also does", if you catch my drift. > > > > -- > > ******************************************************************** > > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* > > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > > * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * > > ******************************************************************** > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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/ -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
