I have a pair of RB133’s that I want to use as a back haul to connect 2 different networks. Both networks are basically comprised of a PC based edge router connected to an Internet connection on one side and a RB500 series sectored base station on the other. The PC routers and base stations are currently running OSPF (each base station is a tower/ OSPF area) and work fine.
My questions are:
1 - What’s the simplest (and most efficient) configuration for the pair of radios such that they look like a single router between my two edge routers? 2 - Would some sort of PtoP configuration be better? 3 - Can I do it in such as way as to not have to run OSPF on those two units since they are relatively underpowered as it is?
I don’t want to bridge the networks and both networks will be growing in the future so I don’t want to do static routes either.
Right now I have eth0 facing the internet on both edge routers and eth1 with a /26 (backbone OSPF area) talking to the base stations. I’d like to just add an IP address to both /26’s and treat the backhaul as a single router between both systems.
I could assign a 2 address network between the wireless interfaces of the 2 133’s and then run OSPF on both radios but I would think there would be a better way to do it.
Well the best way I can think of connecting both networks is creating a PTP (Bridged) link between the two routers. Plug them into an open interface on each router and define a /30 PTP network on the routers’ respective interfaces.
I know you don’t want to bridge, but If all you’re trying to do is link the two networks why do any costly routing on “an underpowered board”. Let your routers take care of that and just forward the packets over the wireless bridge.
Unless I’m missing some secondary goal you’re trying to achieve.
ya, 133s are NOT the way to go for a backhaul at all. 532s. We sell a complete 5 gig P2P solution including integrated antennas, and we configure it as a straight bridge. We also turn off a number of other things to ensure high performance.
If you have routers at each end, then bridge it and let the edge routers router it. Else, turn on OSPF, assign 3 /30s one between each of the 4 routers and go from there, kinda of a pain when you can just have one /30.
I ended up setting up the OSPF and routing and it works fine. For the moment 10Mb is plenty of bandwidth.
From here on out I’ll just use that pair of radios on the extreme edges of the network where performance is noncritical. As soon as I need a pair of radios for something like that I’ll swap them out with a higher end pair of router boards.