Wireless Rear port port

[rasmustjensen]

Today only Interfaces can be of type Wireless. Rear port can not be a wireless port.

But I would like to se that you can have a physicals Front Port connected to a Wireless Rear port.

That way you would be able to trace a dedicated path between two devices that are connected with a wireless link.

[Physical port A (Front port) ]DeviceA[wireless in/out] (Rear port) - - - - - (Rear port)[wireless in/out]DeviceB[Physical port B] (_Front port)

So a front port (physical port) which is connected to the Wireless interface.

I see this as the way to model a device "Wireless Outdoor unit" with 2 modules in it. (radio + antenna).
The module "radio" would have the front port and the other module (antenna) would have the rear port (a wireless interface)

Any thoughts?

[candlerb]

Frontport/Rearport are for electrically-connected cable pass-through ports only.

Your wireless unit needs two interfaces: a wireless interface, and an ethernet interface. I believe that you can model the cross-connection by setting the "bridge" attribute on each interface to point to the other one, and that traces should work through this - but I haven't tested it.

[rasmustjensen]

Thats a good idea and it works.
Thank you.

[candlerb]

Glad it's working.

Out of interest, is your "Wireless Outdoor unit" just an RF amplifier, with an RF coax input? Or what I mean is, what kind of connection is Cable #144?

[rasmustjensen]

Yes. Cable "144 and #139 would be Coax RF cable.
Forexample like this one: https://yagionline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/TSR2095120363-1-6990.jpg
Often you would have a short 1m cable connected to the IDU and the and then a thicker and longer (40m) cable interconnected all the way up in the tower where the radio is mounted.
So the system here is a Split mound solution.
(Similar to this Huawei picture:
https://www.daenotes.com/sites/default/files/article-images/split-mount-microwave-equipment.PNG

So in the IDU you have the node processer with modem.
The Modem is then connect the the out door unit which contain both a radio and an antenna.

[rasmustjensen]

One downside with this, is that the Bridge part is not visible when looking at the "Connection"

[candlerb]

Interesting. I would expect the "Link Peers" column to show the immediate neighbour, but it's unclear whether "Connection" should show the very far end as shown by a cable trace (including bridged links), or just the end of the first sequence of cables/frontports/rearports.

Perhaps @jeremystretch could comment as to whether the logic for both is intended to be the same?

For completeness: what version of Netbox are you testing?