harvSki
Premium
join:2004-03-09
Suffolk, UK
| reply to bistelecom
Re: WISP Authentication - PPPoE Maybe?
As we built our small WISP we went through bridged, 1 and 2 and have found that that a fully routed network with PPPoE access concentrators at the wiPOP is the best solution.
EoIP can be a complete pain to set up and decreases throughput on the network, if you are going to use RADIUS then you might as well exploit that and have remote (away from your NOC) PPPoE authentication.
hth |
ponline
join:2004-03-04
presheva
| I started with fully bridged network and authenticate by mac addresses.
It was such a pain, and the bridged network started to be sluggish when i reached 50 clients.
I decided to implement radius server and pppoe server on the NOC and the same bridged network, that is your #1 option. That was a little but not very significant improvement on my network, when i reached 100 clients it was again real pain.
The best thing is to go routed, pppoe server on every AP and a centralised radius server on NOC (option #2) and that is what i did.
Since then, i never look back, i only add new APs to new location, backhaul them to the NOC,mikrotik is very handy at providing pppoe server. I have now 4x bigger network and never had an issue with network efficency or broadcast problems. |
