Also, depending on your monitoring system, you should be able to track CPE and AP bandwidth as is.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > The availability of inexpensive Mikrotik routers made this much less of > an issue than it used to be. Even at micropops that I bridge, I put a > small Mikrotik like a 450G or a 2011 there as a managed switch. That way > it can be converted to routed, often without a truck roll. > > One question is how you assign IP addresses to customers. Static with NAT > in CPE? DHCP? PPPoE? Do you NAT multiple customers to one public IP? > This may determine which approach is easiest to migrate to. Router at each > tower with block of public IPs? VLANs to central site with big central > router? > > > *From:* That One Guy <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 10:23 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged > networktorouted. > > 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. >
