Hi,
We are using Cisco gateways, so we can’t install the gateway-bridge on them. I wonder if anyone could point me to a recommended design. We’re thinking about one gateway-bridge instance per group of gateways on the same channel group, per site.
Like:
gateway-bridge instance 1:
Gateway 1 from site A on channels 0-15
Gateway 2 from site A on channels 0-15
gateway-bridge instance 2:
Gateway 1 from site A on channels 16-31
Gateway 2 from site A on channels 16-31
gateway-bridge instance 3:
Gateway 1 from site B on channels 0-15
Gateway 2 from site B on channels 0-15
Does it sounds reasonable from a design perspective?
Regards,
chabral
A single gateway bridge should be able to handle everything on the same local network, it’s sending legacy protocols over your Internet backhaul that might be ideally avoided.
If you have redundant gateway coverage in the same installation site, and want to have multiple gateway bridges running on multiple host computers there, then it would seem more sensible to have each gateway bridge service a dissimilar collection of gateways so that the gateways covering the same channels report through different gateway bridges for some meaningful bridge redundancy.
There’s no benefit to grouping “like” traffic vs dissimilar traffic, but there is theoretical benefit by having the duplicated “like” traffic routed by distinct pathways.