It may be a little early for questions, but I will ask a few anyway. As I understand it, the "Bullet" has one ethernet port. If I need, at one location, a pbx server, a phone,  and a computer, that would require 4 ethernet ports. Is there a router available that would handle this situation? I can do this with the Cisco router/BBHN node. If I wanted a relay station with 2 dish antennas, would "Bullet" 2 nodes be required? That's just couple for now. I am going to try and sell my local RACES group a package of info showing that this system is needed for EmComm. Thanks for any help.

What you CAN do is hang a hub/switch off the bullet's RJ-45 and have multiple connections to it (of course split off the PoE injection between the switch and the bullet).

There is a Rocket that has 2 antenna ports on it. Or yes, 2 bullets each pointing their own direction, both connected to a switch.

The UBNT Bullet only has one ethernet port, so (as I understand it), if you wanted two physical networks (LAN / WAN) then you'd need a "managed switch" and assign some VLANS.

If you only want one network (presumably LAN) then I can't think of any reason why an ordinary 10/100 ethernet switch wouldn't work for you. 

I'm curious though, because I see the firmware for Nanostation M2, and it does indeed have two ports.  However the documentation for the HSMM firmware seems to indicate that ALL UBNT devices have only one port.  So I'm wondering, if maybe HSMM won't support the second port, or (insert unknown quantity here).

 

In order to pull the WAN port out like you would on Linksys you need what is called a "smart switch"  or "vlan capable switch"  or a "VLAN capable router"

The WAN port is assigned to an 802.1q VLAN of 1.

If your router can add a virtual network for the VLAN of 1  you can use that direct, otherwise a smart switch (such as the Netgear GS105e GS108e)  which allows you to assign a port as a 'trunk port' with VLAN 1  and than assign another port as a "WAN" port (assigned as a PVID id of 1 -- untagged

I think we have a setup guide for the GS10xe sitting around somewhere if you end up needing it. DD-WRT may support the VLAN tagging on its own, but that is better referred to the DD-WRT support team on that question.

On my system at home, I am using a GS108E.  This is the eight port version.  There is also a GS105E.  I have used both and they do work.

The setup is not exactly obvious. When I set up my GS105E i used the following:

Port        Connected to:

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A correction to my previous statement:

The internet is on tagged vlan 1 (I'll go back and edit the original post).  Sorry about that I've been doing way to much work on a different part of the device build and mixed the two in my mind.

All un tagged packets are treated as LAN packets.

The setup you can run will depend a lot on what your router supports and how you wire it up.  Once you get away from using a smart switch to break out the networks your getting into advanced networking which you will need to do some design on your side to integrate.

if you use a vlan interface on your router it will need to listen on VLAN 1 and allow access from vlan 1 to the internet.  Exact setup will be better rendered to you by your router forum on this step.

For local pc's to the internet if you plug them all in and put dhcp on the  Ubiqutiit you would end up with a setup where packets go from local PC to router to Ubiquiti back to router to internet.

Another option is you can set the mesh node in NAT mode and use static routes on a few if your local PC's and have them route to the mesh that way rather than directly exposing the local pc's to the mesh.

A key note you only need is WAN port for a node that's going to provide internet access or allow access from LAN to internet.  If you don't need those you can get away from it to reduce cost.   You can also have multiple Ubiquiti devices (if they are at the same location) on the same smart switch.

Depending on what you're trying to do, you may also be able to use a WRT-54G based BBHN mesh node to provide internet into a Ubiquiti based mesh network. 

It's easy to see how you'd do this if the mesh node is linked in to the mesh through RF.  Could you use the 54G to do this if it was connected to a Ubiquiti via a wired connection?

Hey everyone.  I'm still trying to get this to work but the laptops plugged into the router's lan are still showing no internet connection.  They show their gateway as the Ubiquiti node, but the internet isn't going past that through the router.  Here are some notes below on my settings.  Greatly appreciate help with this. 

Router LAN IP = 192.168.9.1

Ubiquiti Node LAN IP = 192.168.9.2

Ubiquiti Node WAN settings:

     DHCP mode didn't work, it showed no gateway.

     Static mode didn't work either, WAN IP was set to 192.168.9.3 with gateway as 192.169.9.1, DNS as 8.8.4.4

I attached screen shots of the VLAN tagging and settings.  I won't know where to go from here. 

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