not to hijack you, but there are some who maintain a fully bridged network and use VLAN instead of routing, this I am curious about, it may be a cost effective solution for you as well.
I started our migration 4ish years ago and had the budget cut out from under me with only half the routers deployed, let me tell you, a 50/50 network sucks a great deal to manage. whatever you do, make sure you have all your routers on your desk before you begin On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > Everyone seems to have lived through this evolution at some point. > A bridged WISP is asking for trouble. > > How many APs and how many sites? Are the switches at the sites capable of > supporting VLANs? That is where I would start. Either that or replacing > the switches with routers. Personally, one router with VLANS to each AP > via managed switches would be my preference. > > *From:* Brandon Yuchasz <li...@gogebicrange.net> > *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 9:10 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged network > torouted. > > > I am looking for help converting our network from bridged to routed. This > is something I don’t have a lot of background in but I also don’t want to > end the process having a system I can’t fix so I will need someone that is > willing to both do the work and teach me at the same time. Depending on how > the process works in regards to time I am hoping to spend an hour a week > working over the phone and through a remote desktop app. > > > > My main reasons for working on this now are I need to see bandwidth use > per SM, per AP, and have better ways of tracking both long term. We are > just to blind right now and starting to really grow again I need to get it > under control now before we get to large. > > > > I am open to suggestions on routers but already had purchased microtik and > butches scripts which after trying and failing to get it to work never > implemented. > > > > Contact me off list bran...@gogebicrange.net if you can help. > > > > Thanks, > > Brandon Yuchasz > > GogebicRange.net > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
