I'm toying with a new concept for connecting some of my towers up to individual outgoing connections. Let me set the stage of a scenario.
3 towers, each connected to 2 adjacent towers with Airfiber X5 and an edgepoint on the 2 remote with an edgemax pro as the main router (in the core network hub)
150 users connected to each tower - 450 total users
For simplicity here lets say all internet gateways are equal at 100mbit - 300mbit total
Goals:
- If one tower or link on a tower goes down I want the traffic automatically routed to a link that is up, even if that means routing through 2 other towers to get to the main internet line.
- Use shared network resources like DHCP / DNS (If practical, let me know if I'm better off running multiple DHCP's)
- Load Balance outgoing internet links (was thinking of doing this with VLANs, each VLAN has a separate LB with failover)
So my biggest problem right now is the concept of how to structure this in the router. What would you guys recommend I look into for creating the ring (which I'll want to expand) to keep failover protection between towers.