Pure and simple, has anyone managed to set a single NAS (network access server) for multiple MT access points or is there, at least, a way to create a shared IP Pool?
Purpose is to set a range of Public IP’s which would dynamically be pushed to PPPoE clients. So, either I will need a single PPPoE terminal server or a shared IP Pool (which BTW, I just can’t see to be possible with 3.x or any previous versions).
If anyone has managed to do a single NAS for complete net, please, let me have some guidance. TNX!
I think you might be after what I did, to share a single /25 public IP subnet across 5 mikrotik AP’s, was to use OSPF. Radius hands out IP addresses to PPPoE clients, OSPF takes care of the routing. It allowed me to not have to subnet up the /25, and I can use the /25 anywhere on the network. It doesnt scale into the hundreds or thousands of users well though, but I have it doing 130 users perfectly fine.
Rather close to that.
OSPF or RIP does the job as regards to routing. The problem is that the existing setup of my RADIUS server is issuing IP’s from the IP pools within MT’s. With this setup, if I intend to dedicate a /24 range to PPPoE users, I will, as you understood, need to devide it to appropriate number of MT’s and endup with not so elegant and moreover not practical solution at all.
One solution is to have a single NAS, which will require a lot of tunneling, bridging (don’t like this one), … I will need to proceed PPPoE requests from MT acting as Wireless AP to the NAS. Here is where I need help.
The other solution sounds more elegant and MT guys please consider implementation of this one in near future if possible. Plane and simple: to have ability of declaring one or several shared IP pools - ones you can share between several MT boxes. Combined with OSPF or RIP … Bum! There you go, all your clients have a static IP, dynamicly pushed by the RADIUS, whenever they connect. (For MT people: than you can say “try that CISCO”). Nice idea, ain’t it.