I saw some document online saying that bridging with no firewall is faster than routing with no connection tracking. Based on that would i be right if i have an interconnection of 10 AP’s covering about 10km bridged togethered instead of having routing setup on them.
Actually novice me used to think since bridging meant having the same broadcast domain and there would be so much unnecessary info crossing the network and been transmitted to unnecessary places so i cut that down (on a 10km link) by routing. I would appericate if my view is fortified or disproved lol.
With your situation, don’t use bridging. Keep the 10 networks separate and use routing. As you already state, the overhead of all that broadcast traffic will reduce your network performance. So you are right not to use bridging in this situation.
Yes you are right in a layer 2 way. Bridging is much faster in terms of PPS (packet per seconds) since it look at only the MAC address and not looking further into IP addresses for routing.
But…and i emphasize again, But…the occurrences of traffic flooding and broadcast storms are so much higher that no matter how much faster your Bridging in PPS is able to achieve, it will all be garbage traffic.
This is especially true in wireless AP’s where the throughput speed is always fluctuating depends on external conditions.
You can use wireshark or any other network protocol analyzer to seethe difference between routing and bridging. Every packets transmitted counts in wireless APs.
I would suggest you look into using OSPF. As long as you have reliable links, I think it will be very good for you. If you have links which are always going up and down (flapping) then you will find that OSPF may need some careful attention to work correctly. OSPF is not really for fast and frequent changing routes. But then again, if your links are failing that fast and that often you have more important problems to solve!