On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 16:49 -0400, Josh Luthman wrote: > I've tried restoring on 532, 493, 411, 433 with enough failures that > it is faster to just do the import while reading the export line by > line. Other boards I've just replaced and done a template from the > wiki or just did what needed to be done to make it work.
about 90% of the routers on MOST of the WISP networks I've dealt with, you only need about 10 minutes to configure a replacement. Backups are important only for those routers that get changed often. For example, a router with a DHCP server or PPPoE concentrator without RADIUS authentication. Beyond that, you are only a couple of minutes to get a router replaced. This brings up an important concept related to scalable network design. For my networks, I had routers that were Access points, which had a pppoe server or dhcp server, ran OSPF and had some firewall rules on them. I could take the configuration from ANY of the routers on that network, change a few IPs and restore from that. Other routers were used in a core routing function. Again, just a few changes and all routers with that function were interchangeable. Since all of the "unique" stuff, like IP address ranges and such, were centralized on a RADIUS server, the need for complicated backup strategies didn't exist. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation * * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * * NOTE THE NEW PHONE NUMBER: 702-537-0979 * ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
