Dynamic routing

[bluestu]

Will this be available finally on AirOS V?

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[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Hello,

These routing modes will not be in on initial release, but will be followed up on shortly with an update after launch.

Thanks,

Mike

[avantwireless]

Will this be part of the next release?

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Hello,

I believe it should be part of the next release.

Thanks,

Mike

[avantwireless]

If there is no routing right now, might there be a transparent bridge mode such as WDS. If that, or something completely transparent (not pseudo bridging ) was there, then the routing could be done outside of the device and that would be an even better solution...

Thanks!

[stonefish]

Says you. I want one device to handle everything :)
The bullet2 is a router without a routing protocol. It doesn't even have a GUI option for static routes unless I'm completely blind.

[avantwireless]

If we have a wireless link that is completely transparent, we can use devices with know implementation of whatever protocol without worrying about compatibility issues and UBNT's development cycle. That would be a huge worry off my head....

[stonefish]

What's this pseudo-bridging thing about anyway? What's improper about the way it's done here?

[avantwireless]

Pseudo Bridging is used by almost all 802.11a/b/g/n devices instead of bridging as known on an ethernet bridge. Pseudo bridging works by MAC address proxy and will cause routing to glitch. MAC addresses are not properly propagated and will cause behavior like devices that are visible if they ping to one side and then are invisible when their MAC addresses time out on the other side. WDS is the only wireless protocol that truely bridges 802.11a/b/g devices at this time that is generally available.

[kabelfrei]

Hello,

I believe it should be part of the next release.

Thanks,

Mike

Could you give us a timeline when we can expect OSPF support?

thanks and with best regards,

kabelfrei

[kilos]

Next release AirOS 5.1 should be released end of Nov according to Mike posting

[Dave-D]

avantwireless, I'm confused by your post.

You ask if WDS will be available in AirOS 5,
because you need a transparent bridge.

WDS is now available in AirOS 5. Dave

[kabelfrei]

Next release AirOS 5.1 should be released end of Nov according to Mike posting

Is Quagga Dynmic Routing planned for the next Release?

thanks and with best regards,

kabelfrei

[FlemmingFrandsen]

It's here, now, but it's an add-on that uses the SDK to build a patched firmware:
http://dren.dk/airos-plus.html

I've not done any field testing yet, but the code compiles cleanly and runs on my test bullet.

[bluestu]

If there is no routing right now, might there be a transparent bridge mode such as WDS. If that, or something completely transparent (not pseudo bridging ) was there, then the routing could be done outside of the device and that would be an even better solution...

Thanks!

Wrong! OSPF needs to run on the radio itself otherwise link state detection will not function.

[bluestu]

It's here, now, but it's an add-on that uses the SDK to build a patched firmware:
http://dren.dk/airos-plus.html

I've not done any field testing yet, but the code compiles cleanly and runs on my test bullet.

Wow! thanks man I will be looking at this over the next few days. Will let you know how it goes!! We need more people like you on this board! thanks a million!!!

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[FlemmingFrandsen]

I have a setup with my new edge-router and 4 bullets (3 wired, 2 wireless network links all joined with quagga) in my office right now, to test long-term stability.

Basically the 10.100.0.0, 10.100.1.0, 10.102.0.0, 10.100.3.0, 10.103.0.0 network path in this drawing: http://dren.dk/net3.png

I'm expecting 5 more B5Ms next week so to make the backbone setup complete.

Quagga is not wonderfully documented, I had to guess what "redistribute connected" and "redistribute static" do:) I'm still not entirely sure I've done it right, but I'll shake out any bugs before the weather clears up enough to do the field-install.

[drwho17]

I have a setup with my new edge-router and 4 bullets (3 wired, 2 wireless network links all joined with quagga) in my office right now, to test long-term stability.

Basically the 10.100.0.0, 10.100.1.0, 10.102.0.0, 10.100.3.0, 10.103.0.0 network path in this drawing: http://dren.dk/net3.png

I'm expecting 5 more B5Ms next week so to make the backbone setup complete.

Quagga is not wonderfully documented, I had to guess what "redistribute connected" and "redistribute static" do:) I'm still not entirely sure I've done it right, but I'll shake out any bugs before the weather clears up enough to do the field-install.
Zebra/Quagga have cloned the cisco OSPF/BGP commands for the most part, if you need docs looking at Cisco docs would probably do. The commands you mention above have the same functionality on Cisco gear as they do in Zebra/Quagga.

I've used Zebra/Quagga on and off for several years because it's easier to find techs familiar with Cisco then just about anything else, however I always end up reverting back to Gated because of mysterious issues w/Zebra/Quagga and our Cisco edge routers.

[FlemmingFrandsen]

Zebra/Quagga have cloned the cisco OSPF/BGP commands for the most part, if you need docs looking at Cisco docs would probably do. The commands you mention above have the same functionality on Cisco gear as they do in Zebra/Quagga.


Yes, I noticed that, it's just so alien.



I've used Zebra/Quagga on and off for several years because it's easier to find techs familiar with Cisco then just about anything else, however I always end up reverting back to Gated because of mysterious issues w/Zebra/Quagga and our Cisco edge routers.

Hmm, GateD is not Open Source and it seems pretty dead, so I'll give that a pass, but I'm not married to Quagga in any way so I still might take a look at xorp and bird.

There seems to be an openwrt port of bird already, so including that in AirOS ought to be as easy as including Quagga.

As far as I can tell Xorp hasn't been ported to openwrt yet, but it's portable and uses configure, so it might be easy enough.

I might end up including Quagga, xorp and bird until I figure out what I like better.