[MLB-WIRELESS] links

[mw at freenet.net.au]

Hi Andrew, all...

Let me know directly when you want to come by.  I'll need the scaffolding to
do some roofing in a couple of weeks, so sometime this month would be good!

Regarding nanobridge mode - it's running in AP/station modes with both ends
set to 'bridge' type.  WDS is no good because you lose half the bandwidth,
but it's the typical method to get an end to end bridge happening.  What I
ended up having to do is still use it in that weird pseudobridge mode, but
only connect it to a single router interface at each end.  Those rudimentary
bridge mechanisms work just fine in that context, and then making a mikrotik
eoip tunnel between the routers allows a nice bridge between the two lans at
each end.

Good result, who cares how it is implemented ;-)

Cheers!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au [mailto:melbwireless-
> bounces at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Andrew van Slageren
> Sent: Friday, 10 September 2010 6:44 PM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] links
> 
>   I'll definitely organise a time to drop by at some stage and get some
> more gear up to link up to Lara/Deakin, scaffolding is always a welcome
> help :)
> 
> Just out of interest, what mode are you running the nanobridges to KBQ
> in? We didn't have any trouble running ours in plain AP/Client mode, but
> from what I've read, most people on the Ubiquiti forums run in WDS mode
> when bridging.
> 
> I guess that means that the ESX box (which still has plenty of room if
> people want a VM on it) will have better connectivity into the MW
> network as well.
> 
> Also I'm not around this weekend, so won't be able to make the meeting
> tonight either unfortunately :<
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
> 
> On 10/09/2010 4:30 PM, mw at freenet.net.au wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > <dang>  completely forgot about a meeting coming up this week, so I'll
be
> > missing out this month.
> >
> > But wanted to announce a few comments that may be of interest to other
> > Geelong members...
> >
> > I replaced a point to point link between KBN and KBQ with a ubiquiti
> > nanobridge M5 pair.  Results are great, but I did discover one small
> > downside of nanobridge systems: they are crap bridges! ;-)
> >
> > Funny about that, youd think that something with 'bridge' in the name
> would
> > be good for that kind of purpose, but it turns out that although it is
> > excellent to connect to routers together, when they are used to bridge
> two
> > LANs, the results are disasterous.  I suppose their forwarding tables
get
> > mixed up and suddenly everything goes to pot.
> >
> > Nonetheless, by connecting them to a mikrotik router at each end then
> using
> > routerOS ethernet-over-ip tunnels, a very effective transparent bridge
> can
> > be implemented over the very good air performance of the nanobridge
> systems.
> >
> > The results I get over the 7.5 Km link using routerOS Bandwidth test
> between
> > the routers at each end is 84 megabits of udp and around 60 megabits of
> TCP
> > traffic - not bad at all! :-)
> >
> > Having said all that, I also wanted to mention that I set up some
> scaffold
> > at this end (KBN) and will leave it there for a couple of weekends while
> I
> > fix up some other jobs I've been meaning to do for ages, including
> upgrade
> > of the 2.4GHz AP and link to JEE, so those guys who have been wanting to
> try
> > some links into Geelong and to Lara - about now is a good time to be
> > thinking more about that! ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,  Mike.
> >
> >
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