I have a small wireless internet company and we just installed our equipment on our first watertower in a near by town.
We have 4 poles
1st pole(north) has a dish and a sector and a routerboard on it and we use it as our backhaul
2nd pole has a sector and a 900mhz omni antenna
3rd pole has a sector
4th pole has a sector
they are linked together in this fasion
the backhaul has a ppoe going down to our little office below and ether2 is ran over by cat5 to ether2 on the 2nd pole. ospf works fine. we are currently support 15 subscribers on this.
we later added two more sectors, 3 and 4
so therefore, i ran a cat5 cable from ether3 on the 2nd pole over to ether2 on the 3rd pole
then i ran cat5 cable from ether3 on the 3rd pole over to ether2 on the fourth pole
i’m having trouble no making ospf work on the 3rd and 4th setup.
the ip address of the ether2 on the first pole is 10.3.1.1
the ip address of the ether2 on the second pole is 10.3.1.2
now, do i need to configure ether3 on the second pole as 10.3.1.3? then on the ether2 of the third pole as 10.3.1.4?and so on?
i tried it this way and it’s not working for me. any suggestions guys? i have 15 more subscribers that need to be installed by friday on the 3rd and 4th sectors.. any help is greatly appreciated… THANKS!
From what I can understand from your description you have created a bridged network, although you do not mention any bridges… For OSPF to work you will need to create a routed network and if you have a routed network PPPoE will not run over it without some VPN/EoIP trickery. In your network description you give us IP addresses but not subnet masks, please supply these as well and perhaps a network diagram.
our office is 10.0.0.1 and it goes up to the roof to our antenna(10.0.0.2 and 10.0.2.1) then it goes to our main tower in town that is 300 feet and it is 10.0.2.2 and 10.3.0.1. at this tower we have two 2 feet dishes.. one pointing back to our office antenna and one pointing toward the watertower in a town we just setup for internet access.. the backhaul at this watertower is 10.3.0.2 and 10.3.1.1.. now everything on the watertower has an ip of 10.3.1.x. as stated above i have the north sector which is the first pole and it is 10.3.1.1 and the south sector with a 900mhz omni antenna which is the south sector also and it is 10.3.1.2
now i have added the east sector which is pole number 3 and the west sector which is pole number 4
all sectors run at 2.4ghzb/g
the problem i am having is adding the west and east sector using ospf
BH(North Sector)
| ether2 to ether2
South Sector(2ndPole)
| ether3 to ether2
East Sector(3rd pole)
| ether3 to ether2
West Sector(4th pole)
ether2 to ether2 means on the Backhaul on the MT i am running a cat5 cable from the ether2 port to the ether2 port on another mt and so forth. I’m unable to make the ospf work going from the south sector to the east sector and the east sector to the west sector but our whole network has been setup this way to get dynamic routing.
As far as I understood you have set ip addresses with the same netmask on different interfaces within one router?
Well if this is the case then OSPF probably won’t work.
One of solutions could be interface bridging
Or another - use ip addresses with different netmasks.
the 10.3.0.1 is the dish on my main tower pointing to my backhaul on my watertower.. it has an ip of 10.3.0.2, then for the watertower area itself is 10.3.1.1 and 10.3.1.2 and so on.
i’ve tried everything i could think of.. i thought about bridging the interfaces together but didn’t try it..
Now all ether1 are POE, why not use a switch so u get to use a /24.
With daisy chaining you may have to set ARP to use a /24 or use subnetted ptp links.
