Crazy brit ideas

[redfeaag]

1. Starlink point to multipoint. Stupid idea I am sure or it would have already been done. The UK/EU requirement (due to geography) seems to be more AP's feeding other distant AP's rather than AP-Client. I am looking at about 6 AP-AP feeds with each end AP feeding about 30 clients. I can do this at the moment (just) as the towns being fed are within the 10 deg. spread of my 24db grids. It would be far better for me to enable starlink enhancements. Logic tells me that a starlink AP would be the holy grail of security so would have already been done....

2. SMTP support. Just for good net design, bandwidth efficiency and resiliance this would be pretty neat. I guess pretty simple to include also...?

Thanks

[lonnie]

StarLink is being replaced since the standard AP with distance seting exceeds the performance and gives p2mp. The smaller SBC like Soekris cannot handle the StarBoost enhancements.

As time permits, and we are pretty much done with our development project, we will add some more features to make us more secure and we want even better performance.

To be honest I would prefer that you simply place another machine on site that can handle mail.

StarOS should be a clean little router that adds wireless and bandwidth control. I know it will be cool to have more, but at some point we have to decide on simple as being best for reliable operation.

[georgew]

You really don't want your router to be a mail server.

Mail servers require a lot of CPU when they are under load. Do you want your router to stop passing traffic every time a spammer locks horns with your mail server?

I've been an ISP for a looong time... take it from a voice of experience, don't put mail services on anything but machines that require it, and then be restrictive on what you let connect to the machines running mail. And as for a mail server for the users to receive email from the net with, it is prudent to have those be machines dedicated to the one function.

Your routers are a bad place for a mail server for many many reasons. For a soho office wanting a one-box solution, perhaps this solution would be desirable... perhaps...


George

[rbolduc]

Hello,
I think what he means is snmp possibly ?

Reed

[georgew]

Oh.... snmp, rather than smtp....

"never mind"

I think that some provisioning environments could use writable snmp mibs to auto-provision the network... though for me a read-only mib with access rules keeping the net out, that's all I would need.

But didn't I see in another thread that there was snmp support already? With community name "public"...


George