Hi everyone,

I have some problems while trying to make this idea of mine, but first of all, let me to say sorry if this problems of mine is out of topic within this forum since I bring other brand also together with MikroTik.

I'm trying to make a quite big area of wireless networking for fingerprint (about 3km meter square)

1. I'm using RB 433 AH for broadcasting the SSID around the area (with 2 antennas)
2. I'm using 25 TP-LINK WR843ND as WISP to be connected to the fingerprint machines, these TP series doesn't have repeater mode.

I already did setup the SSID from the routerboard to be broadcasted, also the WISP to get the IP from the routerboard antenna, so far there's no problem here, ping successfully. But when I tried to communicate between clients under the WISP's, timeout and unreachable only that I got.

Info:

1. IP Antenna 1 : 192.168.10.0/24
IP Antenna 2 : 192.168.20.0/24
2. I'm using the Routing RIP protocol and already registered both of the networks above
3. Each of the WISP(TP-LINK) has their own network (192.168.30.0/24 - 192.168.54.0/24)
4. The TP-LINK only support for static routing to be modified

Should I use another routing protocol?

Wish to be replied and helped.

Thank You,

Woodenplank

I'm really surprised that stock TP-LINK WR843ND can connect from from the farthest points in that 3km square meter area

In your scenario you don't need dynamic routing at all as long as you get your ip addressing and routing right; you may follow these guidelines:

Considering one of the 433:
- Use IPs in the same range (say 10.0.1.0/24) from the 433 to each WR843 <=> 433 link, e.g.

First WR843 gets 10.0.1.11/24
Second WR843 gets 10.0.1.12/24
Third WR843 gets 10.0.1.13/24 an so on.

Guess you are going to distribute this by DHCP; specify 10.0.1.1 as the default gateway for DHCP clients and you're done.

- Assign an specific and unique range on each WR843 "local" wireless side, i.e.

- First WR843 192.168.1.0/24 (1.1 for the wireless interface)
- Second WR843 - 192.168.2.0/24 ).2.1 for the wireless interface)
and so on

From the routing perspective, everything should work (disable WR843 firewall or configure it accordingly) as long as you:

- Set 10.0.1.1 as default gateway for all WR843 (Which you did automatically via DHCP)

- Set an specific route on the 433 to each 192.168.x.0/24:

dst-address 192.168.1.0/24 gateway 10.0.0.11 (First WR843)
dst-address 192.168.2.0/24 gateway 10.0.0.12 (Second WR843)
dst-address 192.168.3.0/24 gateway 10.0.0.13 (Third WR843)

and so on.

Now for the routing between the two 433, you can make it really simple without dynamic routing.

On the second 433, use an analog range 433 <=> WR843 (i.e. 10.0.2.1 for itself, 10.0.2.11, 10.0.2.12 and so on for the 1st, 2nd... tplinks) and a 192.168.x.0/24 range not used on any other WR843 for the local wireless

How are both 433 linked? To a switch? to each other?

Now to make routing work between WR843 local wireless clients from seperate 433s, add a route to 192.168.0.0/16 at each 433 pointing at the other as the default gateway, and you're done.