Good afternoon, I’m looking at ways to save device battery life on wifi.
Another manufacturer advertises proxy-arp as one way to do this, the wifi access point will respond to the arp request on behalf of a device, so it doesn’t have to wake up.
Can this be done on the Mikrotik Audience? I know it has proxy-arp, but this setup is on a bridge and I don’t know where to enable it.
The other issue is that it may not work like the other manufacturer describes.
Was it Cambium?
It was, however if you do a search of google, you will find a whole host of information on the subject.
I’ve kind of given up on the idea, as Mikrotik doesn’t support ND Proxy as far as I can tell.
I feel like Mikrotik is a jack of all trade, but master of none. I’m not saying it is a bad product, it’s just they leave allot of features out, which given their target market, this can often cause issues.
https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-wi-fi-power-saving-features
https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/c9800-ipv4-arp-ipv6-nd-proxy/td-p/4316625
I found an issue between the DHCP-Server in Mikrotik when I have Proxy-Arp turned on for an SSID in Cambium. I would get errors from the DHCP-Server about CONFLICTs then the device would need to pick a new IP. This would overrun my DHCP server. In my “try one thing at a time”… I finally found that turning off Proxy-arp stopped the constant errors. All new deployments I have proxy-arp turned off on ALL SSIDs… problem has not come back.