[Server-devel] IP addressing of access points

[Marten Vijn]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:08 -0300, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are considering our options for having fixed addresses for access
> points on the network hosted by the XS. We would like to write some
> scripts to monitor the access points (e.g. ping them to see if they
> are alive) and so on. We will have several access points per XS in our
> deployment.
> 
> We have discussed 3 options, all of which require small changes to the XS:
> 1. Modify the XS dhcpd config to not use the entire address range for
> DHCP. Then we statically assign IP addresses to the APs in the
> non-DHCP range.
> 2. Put the APs on their own subnets and add a routing entry on the XS
> (note that we have not tested if the APs will respond to IP-level
> traffic from a foriegn subnet, I know that some do not)
> 3. Configure the APs to get IP addresses over DHCP, and add MAC-based
> static reservations on the XS dhcp server.
> 
> Of the 3 options, we like (1) the best because of its simplicity. But
> I'm wondering if anyone has any other suggestions or better ideas?

I build FreeBSD based flash images for my accespoints (NANOBSD),

These images get thier hostnames at boottime and register themselves in
puppet.

It is more work but gives full control over ip, and daemons.

On the ap's it run:
- snmpd
- sshd
- named (if needed)
- sflowd (sflow information)
- puppetd

If want more details about this setup:
http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek

So your options it choose option 3 

2ct.... 


kind regards,
Marten







> 
> cheers
> Daniel
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