Would MME be a alternative to OSPF in a Typical WISP setup?
We have Mikrotik Routers in our Towers with typical Backhauls ( Motorola Canopy, Trango Atlas, ect, Orthogons)
WE are currently building redundacy in the network,
MME or OSPF?
I was thinking the same thing. Hopefully it’s more reliable than OSPF on Mikrotik!
Are you using it? I think that it’s not even working correctly ( at least in RC6 )
what’s wrong with OSPF? we’ve been using it for 2 years on MikroTik with a large fully routed network with redundant routing loops built in many places, and it’s very reliable and does a very good job keeping towers and customers online even when there is a backhaul failure to a tower… the only problems we’ve seen it are the old memory leak that came up from time to time (and hopefully is fixed for good now) and sometimes when adding a new interface (or certain changes to an ospf interface) it sometimes will not exchange routes over that interface until the router is rebooted.
Could you expand a little on what “large network” means please?
We are around 1000 MT and would like to move to OSPF…
George
We had lots of problems with OSPF and Mikrotik. Never could get it solid so we stopped using it.
Just started playing with MME…
Tested using ethernet links and LOTS of packet loss during switch over. Even after switch over, pings look really bad. After a while, you’ll start to get “no route to host” and MME on the client (RB333) will appear to be hung up.
Haven’t tested it yet, but no way to know if MME routes to clients will be propagated via BGP. There is no setting in BGP for this.
Supout for client and server sent to Mikrotik 10/9/2007.
20 some odd towers, and around 700 mt devices on the network. mix of static routing at the APs, ospf between every tower / backhaul, pppoe for the clients, where ospf distributes the route for the customer’s PPPoE session as a /32, and each AP/Sector has a private /24 for dhcp to the cpe’s, also distributed via OSPF… we have a pretty large routing table, and it works just fine…
What version of ROS are you using?
a mix… most of the OSPF systems are currently running 2.9.38 or newer, but it has been running stable since 2.9.12 (which I feel has been the most stable version of ROS ever)