I am located in a rual mountian area which will require me to have 5 links from the hard line to the final destination. I would like to have each unit linked with the other using SR5’s and be able to use the ethernet port at each link as a drop for one of my public IP address. Which way is the best to accomplish this, WDS EIOP ? Thanks
No 100% sure. but I know you can do it.
you could run the
1st unit with wds station (talks to 2)
2nd unit with ap-bridge/wds (talks to 1 and 3)
3rd unit with ap-bridge/wds (talks to 2 and 4)
4th unit with ap-bridge/wds (talks to 3 and 5)
5th unit with wds station (talks to 4)
Client wds (level4) is cheeper then AP (level5) but I would go with 1 card in the first and last unit and two cards in the unit 2, 3 and 4 so that you get a little less latency and a bit faster connection. You would need level5 on 2,3,4 and level4 on 1,5.
Or it maybe level3 and 4.
Can someone step in here!
Anyway, how far is each link?
Off topic, but!
Are you near BigSky?
yes near BigSky. Thanks for the info.
I just wasnt sure if WDS or EIOP was the way to go. I also wanted to make sure that I have avail of some of my public IP’s at each ethernet connection in the link along the way.
Oh by the way the distance is about 28 statute miles between links.
I would use WDS over EoIP. EoIP as per Mikrotik Docs say that WDS is better because EoIP will 10% to 20% slower then then WDS.
As for the Public IPs on each of the five link, you could bridge the ether ports to the radios/WDS and then the whole network will be one big hub. Then add an IP to each of the units bridge so you can get to them from any internet connection.
I need more or less the same you posted here.
The thing is I don’t know haow to see others AP from an AP… I’ve set them all to WDS, but I still can’t make them see each other…