But what I am still missing is some ´best practises´ examples or suggestions.
Many of us are growing in the use of MR ROS and learning little by little, often by making many mistakes first
Would it not be handy to have some general guidelines and advices add on the manual that gives a better idea on when to use what in ROS. So we learners don’t have to invent the wheel over and over again.
some examples;
routing or bridging
WDS or pseudobridge (and now also BCP?)
VPN and different tunnels.
I for myself have a mainly routed network (just static routing tables in all nodes making route to end user IP) and some units bridged is some corner of my network. Because we are growing and to simplify the user authentication and to separate VOIP form other traffic I want to set up some sort of tunnel for each client to authentication router.
But there are so many alternative tunnel protocols available that I am lost in deciding which one is the best, or the most simple to perform.
Some operator forum member uses this, the other that… but why? Some are mentioned to be complicated (MPLS) and some talk about their chosen tunnel like it is not a big deal at all…
Maybe some can shine a light on these? Can there not made a diagram that tells us when to use what solution? Like the diagram in routerboard.com that tells us which routerboards are capable of doing what to compare them?
I really think the majority of forum members are struggling day by day to learn how things are working only to find themselves later in a position they better chosen an other way before… how frustrating things can be!
Nice of you to reply to a post of congo on a issue that has nothing to do with my topic. Can you have the courtesy to answer me too? Even if it would mean I am stupid!
WirelessRudy, you are right about the best practices.
Based on our experience we have seen that simple route configuration
is better than using bridge configuration. With route configuration you will
have more bandwidth that will pass through the link and less CPU activity.
But if your network is extending, one AP after another, the end user will have to
pass, say 4 or 5 Nated networks. In this case a VPN (PPTP) from the end user directly
to the core router will again increase the bandwidth and with less latency.
These are examples from our own experience.
Staying in your topic, I would also like to see the best PCC experience, because
we are having some problems with that poker played on facebook, it keeps disconnecting.
I have no problem with that, but some of our clients are addicted gamblers
Ok, but routers are not natting anything. That only happens once at client device (domestic wifi router and/or CPE and then once in main gateway. All routers in-between are just routing.
In this case a VPN (PPTP) from the end user directly
to the core router will again increase the bandwidth and with less latency.
These are examples from our own experience.
Ok, thanks. I am indeed thinking of setting up tunnels because I can also distribute public address easy to clients and separate VOIP/Skype from other traffic. But what is the best tunnel to use is still not 100% clear to me.
One question I have: Each tunnel needs an (virtual) tunnel interface in access concentrator. If I want to give client two tunnels, one for VOIP/SKype and one for rest, 500 users mean 1000 tunnel interfaces? Is any routerboard able to handle that?
Staying in your topic, I would also like to see the best PCC experience, because
we are having some problems with that poker played on facebook, it keeps disconnecting.
I have no problem with that, but some of our clients are addicted gamblers >
Same problem here. PCC is also still a field in need of more explorations and examples to learn from…
Maybe you should find a better browser? We didn’t change anything to introduce or remove the blue background, and absolutely nothing has been done to the forum header in weeks
It’s a shame that technically minded people like the visitors of this forum don’t know that already. It’s a fact, not a statement, and Microsoft has acknowledged it. They are now hardly working on IE9 because of the serious competition.
For MikroTik forum and Mikrotik.com visitors, IE is not the most popular browser. It’s Firefox and Webkit (Chrome or Safari)
You never mentioned version number. IE is not dead at all. Still one of the biggest in the world and latest version has little problems. (not that I am IE fan, I use Firefox for long time. But latest IE is again been used because it has been learning from competition and improved a lot.)
So it is a shame that technically minded people like moderators of this forum don’t know that if they make statement they have to be a least a little bit more careful in picking their wordings or what they are referring to.
Your statement “IE is old and dead” because old versions are better not to be used any more. Same style of argumenting on MT-ROS would also render MT-ROS dead?
But let us not been carried away about these peanuts discussions. We have more serious matter to handle today!
IE8 is still old and broken, so I did not make any wrong statement, it’s what I meant. It doesn’t support half of CSS2 correctly, even if others support CSS3 for years now. Broken box model, margin calculation bugs, floating bugs, they all persist today with the most updated IE8.
