Butch-
You've changed my life!
I didn't realize that it would use the least hops. I did see the priority
and played with changing that.
I also took the times down to :01 to speed it up. Although I'm sure there's
probably a side effect with that...
I saw some arp problems when I turned it on for my 'back door feed' to a
tower 2 hops away.. My monitoring workstation running whatsup saw several
clients, even on towers elsewhere on this network, unable to ping for a
minute.
Thanks,
Randall
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From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mikrotik discussions" <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Script help -- First Problem
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Randall Roberts wrote:
I was under the impression that STP wasn't very reliable. (I
haven't tried it in years...)
It's not unreliable...just harder to engineer traffic than, for
example, OSPF.
I've always seen the STP button in Bridge setup. Didn't know about
what to put for the settings, I'm going back to lab and try with
the defaults.
The defaults will work just fine for most applications. STP will
use a "least number of hops" approach by default. If the hop count
is equal, then it will "at random" pick one.
One other question- Is there a problem with turning this on all of
the wireless bridged links? Will it then allow more of a 'mesh'
with the different towers if say, A has link to B and to C, and B
has a link to C? If A->B fails, B will get it from A->C->B?
If I understand your question, then the answer is "no, there's no
problem with this". In fact, it is advisable to turn it on for all
of them. If you are running a mesh, then you may want to look into
MME, which is documented (poorly, IMO) here:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/MME_wireless_routing_protocol
In your shoes, I'd go with STP, as it is simple, low overhead and
reliable.
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