If it¹s all bridged then ARP tables fill up, memory runs low, and all
kinds of things happen. I know Forbes has mentioned a bridged network on
here before. I would put your money into routing the network and then get
rid of the mikrotiks if they are still problems after the routing is done.
You will be amazed at how much a routed network will improve the quality of
the network. There are other things he could try to hunt down, but until
all that bridging is stopped it will be an uphill battle.
Justin
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From: Forbes Mercy <forbes.me...@wabroadband.com>
Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:27:25 -0700
To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik
How my day ended, I really don't mean to slight Mikrotik or it's dealers.
People who route their networks will have a fraction of the problems I have
but I have to admit the excuse of "must be your employees" or " that never
happens" got old about 20 outages ago. Today I had 8 major outages, 4 of
them we found a bridge or ports erased and the IP displaying 0.0.0.0. This
was an easy fix, log in and add the bridge and ports then click on the IP
and it came back legitimate again. Shame we had to make the trip to the
towers to do that. The other 4 not so easy, they showed the IP correctly
but not in Winbox and they had the MAC address as 00.00.00.00.00, well 12
times, you get it. Those we had to pull the backhaul and reset it then
reprogram it. A hellish day but we didn't miss the fact that the UBNT units
never crashed no matter what this crazy bridging issue was. It was just a
real bad day to be in this business but I appreciate the help that I got
from Mikrotik dealers who really care to help resolve this but are as
equally frustrated as I was, while aging about 3 years in one day. Like
watching a baby sleep the night is uneventful after a 15 hour work day and
my with my added worry about taking 4 vacation days this weekend. I wish I
could trust the equipment from overreacting to every damn bit of unfriendly
traffic by shutting down the LAN port or resetting the radio but I can't,
it's my employees problem now but it will certainly take away from the joy
of my time off since I know their attitude is more like, 'let them wait'
then my feeling of 'people down is lost income', employees....
Forbes
On 9/16/2010 7:44 PM, RickG wrote:
> For me, the StarOS/WRAP combo performed very well since 2004. The only issues
> I had were coax related. Otherwise, I agree, I dont like equipment you have to
> put together. I save my tinkering around for personal stuff but much rather
> have a fully designed radio for commercial purposes.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mark Nash - Lists <markl...@uwol.net> wrote:
>
>> There's something to be said for "losing faith" in a technology. For me,
>> it's the "build-it-yourself" radios. All of them. Mikrotik & StarOS. For
>> me, I see such a high service call rate for repairs, the need to put in
>> redundant backhauls sooner than later because we can almost guarantee
>> something's going to malfunction.
>>
>> Ubiquiti has brought to us good enough pricing to have us make the "leap of
>> faith" and hopefully their product is more stable over time, keeping much of
>> the success or failure of a unit out of the hands of the installer.
>>
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Forbes Mercy" <forbes.me...@wabroadband.com>
>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:04 AM
>> Subject: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik
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>>> > I have about 30 seconds to leave this, I'm going to pull every
>>> > Mikrotik I have, that's about 30 radios and replace them with UBNIT.
>>> > I'm sick and tired of spending all last night because two radios just
>>> > dropped their IP setting to 0.0.0.0 and the other MAC to 0.0.0.0, today
>>> > another system storm crash, what stayed up, my two Ubiquiti towers. You
>>> > can say what you want but I have daily outages, we never find the cause
>>> > and I'm sick of it... flame away I don't care I'm just sick of Mikrotik.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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