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Building to Building Wireless Bridge with Routing
I need to setup a point to point wireless link between two sites about 30 metres apart following a company merger. Trouble is I am a Windows bod and only know the basics of IP. The two offices are across the street from one another, we have good line of site and coverage in the Fresnel zone. Both sites have ADSL access to the Internet and connectivity is currently provided by a Lan to Lan VPN, however this arrangement is not really fast enough even for Terminal Services. The sites are currently on seperate class C subnets. The client is nervous of wireless and wants the existing VPN solution to remain as a backup to the wireless link (ADSL not necessarily using the same equpiment, two Draytek 2800's), which means we need routing (I think). The failover would be preferred to be automatic and sub-second but could be manual or automatic but slower if this increases the cost too much. Here are my questions, any input is much appreciated.
What products should I buy to make this solution work and how should I configure them? What vendor should I choose?
Will I need two routers with three ports and two Bridges? Or can I keep the existing ADSL routers and just buy two access points with routing features (are there any?) and use RIP? If I put a static route into the ADSL routers to the Wireless Router/Bridge with a lower metric will that work? How fast is RIP to failover? What other protocols could I use?
The area is urban London and is saturated with 802.11b/g networks so I am considering using 802.11a. Is this a good idea?
Shall I buy an outdoor bridge with integrated antenna or an indoor one with an antenna extension?
Anything else I need to know about?
What products should I buy to make this solution work and how should I configure them? What vendor should I choose?
Will I need two routers with three ports and two Bridges? Or can I keep the existing ADSL routers and just buy two access points with routing features (are there any?) and use RIP? If I put a static route into the ADSL routers to the Wireless Router/Bridge with a lower metric will that work? How fast is RIP to failover? What other protocols could I use?
The area is urban London and is saturated with 802.11b/g networks so I am considering using 802.11a. Is this a good idea?
Shall I buy an outdoor bridge with integrated antenna or an indoor one with an antenna extension?
Anything else I need to know about?
Zaheer Iqbal
Can you not get fibre optics between the two sites..
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1stITMAN: No Chance of Fibre I'm afriad. And as for the wireless I can see how this T1/E1 emulation type thing would work but I'd rather have a simpler ethernet based solution.
wally2k7: It's the routing that's the problem :)
Has anyone else got any ideas, espeically about the routing?
wally2k7: It's the routing that's the problem :)
Has anyone else got any ideas, espeically about the routing?
What sort of budget are you looking at??
I have further reference material I can refer to which is at work, it may be some time until I can get access to it again. By which time I am sure your queston will have been answered.
Rich
I have further reference material I can refer to which is at work, it may be some time until I can get access to it again. By which time I am sure your queston will have been answered.
Rich
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No budget really, just want to get it done.
I am thinking about two Cisco1841 or 1801's with two Aironet 1400's (which I prefer since they have 802.11a), although that is very expensive. I think I have figured out how the routing will work, the wireless bridge is just an ethernet segment, right. So the Ethernet WAN ports of the two Cisco 18xx's will be connected as if directly connected. The segment will have a seperate IP network to the A and B sites. Each interface will be the others default gateway. Does that work?
This question hasn't garnered musg interest, any idea why?
I am thinking about two Cisco1841 or 1801's with two Aironet 1400's (which I prefer since they have 802.11a), although that is very expensive. I think I have figured out how the routing will work, the wireless bridge is just an ethernet segment, right. So the Ethernet WAN ports of the two Cisco 18xx's will be connected as if directly connected. The segment will have a seperate IP network to the A and B sites. Each interface will be the others default gateway. Does that work?
This question hasn't garnered musg interest, any idea why?
Unfortunately this is about an average response for this section its fairly new and there are only a few people with fairly limited experience in this field. You are covering a number of questions here with the routing and wireless which limits people able to answer.
I have very limited experience with the routing side of things. But... Yes effectively the wireless link will essentially be a piece of Cat 5 linking the 2 sides together.
It sounds to me as though you are on the right lines with the routing side of things. I am having trouble finding my CISCO books at work. I have just moved offices half way across the country, and they have lost all the boxes of stuff I sent. Quite, quite annoying......I dont think they realise quite how much it is affecting my answers on experts exchange.
imbociles!!!!
Hope this helps, sorry you are dissapointed with the feedback.
Out of interest in what zones did you post the question. Maybe asking it again in different zones will affect the input you get.
Regards, Rich.
I have very limited experience with the routing side of things. But... Yes effectively the wireless link will essentially be a piece of Cat 5 linking the 2 sides together.
It sounds to me as though you are on the right lines with the routing side of things. I am having trouble finding my CISCO books at work. I have just moved offices half way across the country, and they have lost all the boxes of stuff I sent. Quite, quite annoying......I dont think they realise quite how much it is affecting my answers on experts exchange.
imbociles!!!!
Hope this helps, sorry you are dissapointed with the feedback.
Out of interest in what zones did you post the question. Maybe asking it again in different zones will affect the input you get.
Regards, Rich.