I was hopeing you would chime in Butch! Our 3 other towers are currently bridged, but I know they should be routed! I was hoping to hire you to fix our problem, but the current economy has nullified that. We have switches at all towers with broadcast storm control, and the new firmware with Moto has broadcast storm control in it also, but I would really like a routed system. We are small, just less than 200 subs.
Anyways, for the time being, I do appreciate your suggestions and anyones else's suggestions for a temporarily bridged system. I do not mind spending the money for the routerboards for a short time, I have places they can be placed afterwards. Scottie ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Butch Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:26:01 -0600 (CST) >On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Scottie Arnett wrote: > >>Some background, we are mainly a Canopy Wisp. I am feeding 3 towers >>with backhauls from our main tower(NOC) that the backbone enters >>into. I am using a PC 'tik' box as a main router at our NOC before >>the traffic enters our upstream router, and using it to do several >>different things including bandwidth shaping, traffic >>prioritization, firewalls, etc... it is our only 'tik' at the >>moment. >> >>I am wanting to put some routerboards at each of the three other >>tower locations to cut down on the garbage coming across the >>backhauls and everywhere else on it's way back to the NOC. These >>towers have anywhere between 30 - 60 customers on them. What I >>would like to do at each tower is move some of the bandwidth >>shaping, traffic prioritization, firewalls, etc... to each tower. I >>doubt that each tower will ever have more than 120 customers, but >>would like to plan for the future in case we add 900Mhz AP's. > >Some questions are in order to clarify your design goals. Are your >3 towers currently routed? In other words, is tower 1 on a >different subnet than tower 2 and 3? If so, then the process will >be much simpler and more straightforward. If not, then there is >some work to be done in getting it set up that way. Based on your >goal of moving traffic shaping and prioritization over to this new >tower router configuration, I'd suggest the RB433AH routerboard. >This board is a 680MHz router with 3 ethernet ports and 3 minipci >slots (for your other "future" upgrade mentioned below). It's a >pretty inexpensive device at about $150 plus case (indoor is $23 and >outdoor $73). The RB493AH is the same CPU but has 9 Ethernet ports >and 3 minipci slots. RB493AH is $169 plus about $30 for an indoor >case. Outdoor case is gonna run about $70 plus, depending on the >configuration. Either of these boards will do what you want with >room to spare. FWIW, all ethernet ports on these are 10/100. If >you want/need gigE, then RB600 or RB1000 is needed. > >>Can you guys give me a routerboard suggestion to do this for the >>towers. We are mostly Canopy 900 Mhz, so no more than 4 Mbps >>aggregate can move through each of these towers at the moment, but >>could go to 8 Mbps. I would like the ability to add some 2.4 or 5.7 >>cards to these later on for LOS customers, so please include >>suggestions with the ability to add these cards later. > >The RB400 series and RB600 have minipci slots that would facilitate >the radio cards. RB1000 does not. Hit me offlist if you're >interested in a firm quote on the parts or if you are in need of >assistance with the transition. > >-- >******************************************************************** >* Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* >* http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * >* http://www.wispa.org/ * WISPA Board Member * >* http://blog.butchevans.com/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * >******************************************************************** >_______________________________________________ >Mikrotik mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > >Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $30.00/mth. Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
