Stay away from STP, go MpLS , MPLS-TP if possible
On Thursday, August 6, 2015, Glen Waldrop <gwl...@cngwireless.net> wrote: > I'm running Mikrotik, all routed, got a different subnet for each tower, > got a different subnet between each tower, public IP's routed to the > customers, all the fun stuff. > > I'm thinking of restructuring my network so the entire backbone is one big > L2 network. If I plug into the switch at the tower at tower 5 it will be no > different than tower 1 or 7. Each AP would still have it's own subnet, but > the backside of each AP would be on the same L2 as the rest. > > I'm planning on looping it all the way around and building redundancy into > the network, haven't quite decided how I'm going to do that yet, might use > STP, that is a little ways down the road. I'll have another fiber feed in > case the main goes down and I'd like to have a level of redundancy should a > tower go out, I'll only lose the one rather than the ones behind it as well. > > I've fried my brain today, so if I'm sounding half crazy, just tell me to > take the rest of the day off... > > I'm thinking it might be best to have a few large L2 segments to the > backbone, maybe three or four, rather than one big L2 and much simpler than > 12+ subnets from tower to tower. > > Input is appreciated. >
