Free for 30 days, or free for up to 30 "sensors". The way I use sensors
on our network, that will cover about 2 devices.
http://www.paessler.com/prtg/download
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 3/9/2015 10:13 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
PRTG is free and will monitor all your stuff if you fire up an
internal subnet for it.
*From:* Brandon Yuchasz <mailto:li...@gogebicrange.net>
*Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 10:43 AM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged
network torouted. (More Info)
Alright so I have always said I am not proud too admit when I am
uneducated in an area if it means learning something I need to know.
So as embarrassing as it is Ill open to robe.
All APs are Cambium FSK and we are now deploying the PMP450 as well.
Backhauls are a mix of companies but we are looking to try and
standardize, Cambium, and Ligowave are the most used.
Ill just use one site because they are all evolved in a similar way.
But we have several different sites that are all very similar.
The site I would like to do first is Tower one, 5 FSK APs (PMP450
coming soon) This site has a shed no heat and my equipment at the base
is secured in a locking large steel box. Think of a truck tool box.
Backhauled to Tower 2 through Ligowave and tower two has 5 FSK APs and
one PMP450. This site is really remote no roads and its all tied
together in a weatherproof box.
So no managed switches, Single IP and DHCP. Never went then way of NAT.
We have no real monitoring for customers date use, we limit up and
down speeds at the SM. We don’t shape no caps you get the idea. So
existing equipment is useless for this process. Our customers are
quite happy with the services but I am blind. I will most likely
double my size in the next 6 months and I can’t keep doing it this way.
Brandon
*From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy
*Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 10:51 AM
*To:* af@afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Looking for help converting from a bridged
networktorouted.
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
<mailto: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 <mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
*Sent:*Monday, March 09, 2015 10:23 AM
*To:*af@afmug.com <mailto: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
<mailto: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 <mailto:li...@gogebicrange.net>
*Sent:*Monday, March 09, 2015 9:10 AM
*To:*af@afmug.com <mailto: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
<mailto:bran...@gogebicrange.net> if you can help.
Thanks,
Brandon Yuchasz
GogebicRange.net
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