From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 16 22:00:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919851065672 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from liontaur@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199918FC08 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz16 with SMTP id 16so2298930bwz.13 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:00:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=PIKYBmvE6MsRPmadUkpAe2dkWW/OMx4lhMqvMzl+4SQ=; b=k8Bv7dSSY37FAwhcMU08NcZfglY5t6nowAbdUndn3UO62GDmSsM/l1Yq/Ig1G90ksa gvi9CQxEvJPRLvDReLYHnMdA9ZBygeObRTZo6MCwqVZ9svMqBKK2mDXk7uvVw99zy7Ov 7LOd0xOim1e0ox+JBTd9mBxQW0Zp6UK3p3VHg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=T1r3zIGvpt4xLIkCSUW7P6/rYHM+BGscrBjzGkxVOQdJA9e4jfje4KLRVqeqndw95p AcYTuJqaKhMxplBY6LOuMZDArEUOC7ASCGo7DUItlYfTL0vm/15OtbWasfF+15zTHDgX PkVGwOifOH9wYNjcMuxvdJGn7Nb1tpcyrbs1A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.72.20 with SMTP id k20mr2561711bkj.39.1287265060902; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.62.201 with HTTP; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:37:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CB74443.70606@dichotomia.fr> References: <4CB5C9FE.90101@dichotomia.fr> <4CB70296.8060508@dichotomia.fr> <4CB74443.70606@dichotomia.fr> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:37:40 -0700 Message-ID: From: Liontaur To: Jerome Herman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:00:41 -0000 On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Jerome Herman wrote > > > It is indeed a lot easier. Unfortunatly it cannot be used in this case. > Basically it is an hotel that is already wired in CAT.6. We ant the clients > to be able to connect through wire without resorting to routers or DSL > modem, with just DHCP set up. > The hotel is composed of 33 small residences connected with fiber. The idea > is to avoid the part where we buy 33 layer3 switches at 3000$ a piece. > > Jerome Herman I work for a hotel as well and we ended up going with a 3rd party solution due to our chain's requirements, particularly the no need for the end user to have to do ANY network configuring on their end requirement being the most difficult. We ended up going with a hospitality gateway from Ethostream as they were the cheapest (between $1100 and $2600 depending on which gateway you pick). They also do 24/7 tech support which is another requirement of our chain. I can say that i'm very impressed with both their gateway (we went with the dual WAN gateway since having two separate connections is yet another of our chain's requirements) and their tech support as they're not just your typical script readers from my limited dealings with them. I tried for many moons to get something open source working for us. pfSense came close but there's still end user config required. Our chain requires that no matter if the guest has a static IP or DHCP set, no matter what their DNS servers are, no matter what (if any) proxy they have set, they have to have connectivity with those settings. I'm not sure how the Ethostream gateway does it yet (i'm looking into it though, just for interest's sake, we're going to keep them regardless) but it works. As for switches (we have 114 wired rooms plus meeting rooms plus some WAPs) we bought 3 Netgear FS750T2's as they are fairly cheap ($330-ish CAD) and are somewhat managed (they do port or tag based VLANs). Contact me off list if you want more info on Ethostream. Mark