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Jason, I had one of the largest
bridged networks ever as I cover 15-18% of the State with wireless. I can tell
you a few things about bridging-vs-routing and I aint getting into that, but I
can tell you that I don’t think you will want a totally static routed
network either. That is not necessary unless you have 50-60 clients to the AP
and have multiple hops with that type of traffic. You do need to be in a routed
environment today, but IMHO not in the way the majority would steer you. Ok, this may be a simple question, but I'm trying
to figure the best way to do this. My wireless network is currently
all bridged with three different POP's (all statically assigned private
IP's). I'm getting requests for public IP addresses and as I add
more clients, I feel like I'm really going to need to have a routed network. There are many ways to accomplish what you
need to have done and I suggest that you look at each one of the suggestions
that will have been made and get a good understanding of what will be required
down the road to continue what you start. There are a couple very simple
solutions that will work, but then there are many ways to accomplish the same
task using static routing.
My biggest question is, how do you manage your CPE remotely
in a routed network? Right now I'm pretty much 90% Tranzeo gear (mixture
of CPE-15's and CPQ gear). If a customer calls with performance or other
problems, I'm able to log into their CPE from here to see what's going on from
that end. I would much rather maintain that ability but not sure how to
do that with a routed network. I understand this question as only another
etherant/Tranzeo CPE user would :) Once you enter a routed environment on
the backhaul or otherwise – your scan utility will not scan but to the
first router where it will loose its ability to go any farther as the scan tool
uses broadcast packets to seek its objects and the router kills broadcast packets.
You will have to log every IP on your network and access the antennas via HTTP.
(web interface) The scan tool will still be functional at each individual tower
and will capture the antennas on the wireless AP you are attached to at the
moment. If you maintain a bridged network w/VLANS then the scan tool and
everything else will work as it does now. Also, I would ideally like to have a public IP assigned to
each CPE. The double NAT'ing I've got going right now has been causing a
few issues, plus, I'm getting more business customers that want VPN and Remote
Access to their network. I would NOT use public IPs for CPE, but I
try to use public IPs for my infrastructure. Its one of those deals where we
all have our own beliefs, If you use private IPs then you would need to do a
VPN or RDP (remote desk top) back into your network to see what’s going
on. The biggest advantage to privates on infrastructure is NO HACKING from I realize this will take subnetting to make it happen.
I've got a /24 right now and can easily bump to more when needed. I have a huge network right now and only
have 2 /24’s and 2 /27’s, but I don’t give public IP’s
to anyone who don’t pay for them so 90% of my clients have a private IP.
If more public IP’s are easy to get – get them! Once again the
greatest advantage of private IPs is the lack of the rest of the world to hack
on our clients. How are the rest of you handling your setups like
this? Half of my network is static routed and
half is completely bridged. Which one is faster? The bridged! Which one
is easier to maintain? The bridged! Which one is easier to add clients to? The
bridged! Tell me – is the internet bridged or routed? It is a combination
of both! Routers are only used where routers are needed and if you counted the
routers –vs- switches on the fiber backbone of the internet which
do you think have the greatest population? I see it the same way on my network
- - I will route where I need a router and use a good switch and a VLAN
everywhere else. Let the games begin :-) Mac Dearman Maximum Access, LLC. www.mac-tel.us
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