Hello,
I am interested in some mikrotik hardware for an appartment building. The isp is giving us a gigabit link using bgp session and a class of 32 ip’s. I’m gonna need a routerboard and some CPE routers for every apartment using wifi.
I need the router to be able to handle traffic ballancing and to be fast enough so that we can run IPTV in every apt.
My networking experience is not really big and i could use some tips on how to do this.
Thank you very much!
It would be useful if you start to draft a diagram of what you have in mind and clarify details such as:
How many apartments?
What is the connection from the central router to each apartment?
Where is the source if the IPTV? What standards does it use?
Details of the BGP setup required - or indeed if there is only one connection can you offload that back to the ISP?
Ok i will try to give more info.
We will have the router connected tot the isp using 2 bgp sessions for sepparation of trafic from local to external.
We will have a subnet of 32 ips routed by this.
From this i need a switch to connect all the apartments via cat5 cable, where we will have client side routers for local wifi and such. IPTV will be provided by the local ISP and is about 3MB/s for each apt.
I will probably need traffic shaping and qos done by the gear. Besides that not much else.
You mentioned that your networking experience isn’t that great so you might want to check:
a) Why you would need to run BGP internally if the internal network is switched.
b) If there is only one upstream connection (i.e. no alternate path) can’t the upstream provide BGP for your range and simply static route to/from your location.
Removing BGP would make your life easier and leave CPU cycles for other function!
I currently can work with static routing, the problem is i will need to install redundancy from some other ISP at some point.