Hi
I have 4 base stations at different locations, all in bridged mode and backhaul to NOC.
A friend said I could improve the performance of the network if all traffic and base station is been routed not bridged.
What are the benefits of routed network?
How can I migrate from bridged to routed network?
Am using mikrotik router board at the NOC for routing.
The setup is correct. You should use bridging, since that is what it is supposed to do. To bridge tow locations.
The NOC will have a “heavy” router to ROUTE the traffic to the correct ISP or network.
Keep the setup, do not change anything.
Could you please explain how routing it would improve the performance?
You cannot state that routing has a better performance then bridging. It would be akin to saying that taking the plane is better then taking the car. While I would certainly prefer a flight over a drive if I want to travel from New York to LA, I’d much rather take the car to go to my local supermarket.
One bridges traffic in a small local network. If the performance of the network starts to suffer due to an increase of number of clients, you generally subnet the network (making several smaller networks) and route traffic between them. The performance for each new local network will improve but communication between the new local networks will be worse then before. This is because routing is a more expensive operation in terms of processing power.
That being said, routing has several advantages that bridging does not provide like stateful packet filtering, multiple routes to a destination and dynamic routing protocols.
The best solution in your case, based on the amount of information provided, would however be bridging, not routing.
Thanks guys, I appreciate.
For some - routing is far superior and much faster than bridging
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For some - bridging is far superior and much faster than routing
It depends on what you are trying to do.
If you want roam between APs in different areas, then bridging and back-hauling to a central core is better.
If you want just pure raw high speed throughput, then forget about everything and install fiber.
North Idaho Tom Jones