Several threads have suggests Mikrotik over Vyatta. Cheaper and better. I have not used Vyatta.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Fred Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
