Interface IP Assignments

[Elshar]

Just wondering if/when we'd be able to add multiple ips to an interface, its one thing that'd really help with some of the things we'd like to do with the WAR boards and VX software.

[lonnie]

We have this for quick action. It should be within several weeks. How is the speed and reliability so far? This is first release software but we are fairly pleased with reliabilty.

[go.fast]

How is the speed and reliability so far?
Don't know, we haven't deployed the first two yet.
The hold up is the multiple ip's per interface.
One of the boards is going to replace an original wrap board which has 2 ap's that feed 2/3rds of our wireless customers.
Elshar is wanting to hold off untill you get further along so that we can have a painless swap over without having to do much reconfiguring of our network.

Also, we are kinda stuck because we are planning on replacing some existing wraps that connect to the main tower wrap with war boards and use the pulled wraps we are taking out and using them on a few wifi hot spot type projects that will free up some cash so that we can buy more war boards and continue on with building out deeper into our territory.

So we are at a stand still.
Also nat is needed as well.

Any way we can't get this stuff sooner?
The waiting game is painfull.

George

[lonnie]

I'll see what we can do.

[kevin]

We have a warboard at one location, 8 miles away we have a warboard, and 5 miles past that we have a wrap. These all went up, fully operational with customers, within a week of getting them. The 8 mile link pulls 9 mb's solid, the 5 mile link pulls 12 mb's solid according to the bandwidth test that came with the first update. 1 antenna on both of these links still has not been truly lined up. The boards have all been flawless, havent noticed any rebooting and are excellent with the latency. ( pings the full 13 miles in less than 2 ms. I am having a slight problem with rip forgetting routes or something but yet this could have something to do with my trying to learn to do this dynamically a little bit.

We have ordered 5 more of the warboards and they just got here, I will have to have more static routes or master rip before i can put them up because of my ignorance, but trust me THEY WILL GO UP PRONTO!!!

Superb boards, cant wait to see what the full potential is


Kevin

[lonnie]

More static routes are coming real soon. Also a simple WEP will be in the next release.

[go.fast]

How about nat?

[kevin]

That sounds great Lonnie, as for nat we just put 2 nic cards in a computer with Star-OS on it and that is all it does, we are fixing to put a harddrive in it and start playing with the proxy and dns.

Kevin

[lonnie]

nat should be done at the POP on the main router just before it gets to the Internet. It is big mistake to be doing that at the AP. You really want your customers to be traceable and not all lumped together, except at the final router.

[kevin]

Yes the star box is between the war board and our cisco router, it also gives us additional firewalling between our routable lan and our unroutable customers ( unroutable unless we port forward or ip mapped ) The war board is connected to a tower 8 miles away, this week we will be adding the tower that is 3 miles away and maybe a third leg that is 5 miles. The fourth leg will be within the month. 1 war board shooting to 4 separate towers, all with warboards. Can't wait to get it all up.

Kevin