[AusNOG] Old Wireless - Any ideas

[Cameron Murray]

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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
wrote:

> Shove a little routerboard on each end, with an EoIP tunnel across the
> link?, and bridge the EoIP tunnel to ethernet on both sides? :)  Tis how I
> do it across ethernet-over-powerline adapters at home :)
>
> On 31 October 2014 11:55, Skeeve Stevens <
> skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Came across an old P-t-P wireless link using the below hardware.
>>
>> *SmartSight S3100 *
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/beucbum3esv9z0n/Wireless.png?dl=0
>>
>> The hardware is old and utterly featureless (no MTU settings, no
>> management VLANs, no anything really).  But it has up till now been running
>> a single layer 2 with P-t-P layer 3 over it.
>>
>> When we went to do multiple VLANs everything went to hell.  Some get
>> through, others don't, some MAC's are seen, others aren't and essentially
>> made my life hell yesterday.
>>
>> I need to replace this crap, and don't know a ton about wireless... but
>> also don't really need to for the most part...
>>
>> The kit is running on 802.11a - which I assume (correctly?) is 5Ghz.
>>
>> What I don't anything about is antenna's and connectors.  I've included a
>> photo which may or may not be obvious to someone what it is.
>>
>> *Antenna connection*
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/o9qez9oxu45dknh/Antenna.png?dl=0
>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/beucbum3esv9z0n/Wireless.png?dl=0>
>>
>> The antennas are VERY high up and hard to get to without lifters.
>>
>> My preference would to replace the wireless kit with something more
>> advanced, and there is a lot of options there.
>>
>> The key thing I don't know is if we can use the existing antenna setup,
>> connectors, and stuff.
>>
>> Any advise steering me in the right direction would be nice.
>>
>> ...Skeeve
>>
>> *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
>> skeeve at eintellegonetworks.com ; www.eintellegonetworks.com
>>
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>>
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>>
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