-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Mike Everest Sent: Monday, 2 May 2016 4:43 PM To: 'MikroTik Australia Public List' <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] mesh network using MikroTik?
Hi Karl,
We've done it several times, and apart from one significant caveat, it works very well indeed! :-)
The big problem is that the layer 2 path optimisation sometimes breaks when there are devices connected to ethernet port on a wireless mesh node. In
odd cases, device connected to a node by Ethernet becomes unreachable even though the node itself is reachable to both the Ethernet-connected device AND the rest of the network.
An effective work-around is to connect all mesh nodes back to the 'mesh
Hi Karl, AND, RouterBoard will also run openWRT ;-) Those models that support (working) virtualisation platform can even run openWRT as Virtual Router :) Cheers! Mike. those portal'
by EoIP tunnel (which takes advantage of the mesh topology with all of the features and benefits) and then connect the eoip tunnel endpoints to the physical ethernets by ordinary stp bridge.
The result is a solid mesh network that is nice and stable and robust.
Official documentation is here: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/HWMPplus
Questions are welcome!
Cheers, Mike.
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-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Karl Auer Sent: Monday, 2 May 2016 4:29 PM To: MikroTik Public <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: [MT-AU Public] mesh network using MikroTik?
Has anyone on the list run a mesh network with MT hardware?
We've been playing with OpenWRT and BATMAN IV, it's been pretty good, but I notice that my MT units have some meshy command sets in there :-)
We have a mesh application in mind for which we need a two-radio unit with at least two independently configurable ethernet interfaces and mesh-capable software.
Two radios is so that we can put the mesh on one radio and users on the other OR use the same units as backbone nodes.
Wondering if the MikroTik is worth looking at more closely.
The chance to chat with someone who's actually done it would be great.
Regards, K.
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