[CUWiN] Multiple radios?

[Quantum Scientific]

On Saturday 09 April 2005 15:33, David Young wrote:
> Also, if you have a sectorized arrangement on a tall tower,
> and a separate router is dedicated to each segment, then you only need
> an ethernet hub/switch to tie the sectors together.

If the router has two or more ethernet ports, it should be possible to just 
daisy-chain them in a ring without going through a switch. (Say, on a water 
tower)  But at least one should have 3 ports, for backhaul or if joining an 
internal LAN is desired, to maintain the ring for alternate paths.  If one 
node fails, would the ring dynamically re-route?  Which should assign the IPs 
in the ring?  And POE would be a question.

So in the case of a water tower ring, the two ethernet ports on a node would 
not be bridged?  Would the routing daemon therefore arbitrate a packet's path 
either along the ring or out the wireless?

Carl Cook