So I picked up a couple cAP AC units back in August. I’m just now getting to configure one of them. I have had (and loved) an RB-450G for 5 years now, and it’s time to upgrade my network a little. The cAP AC will be replacing a Linksys E4200. Right now I’m hooking it up with the provided POE injector to my RB-450G. It turns on, but I can’t seem to talk to it at all though the RB-450G can do an ARP Ping to it, and I can see in my DHCP Server Logs (hosted on my Rasberry Pi A) that it gets the assigned network address on the Ethernet 1 port.
Lights: It’s still configured with the default round casing. The power light is on on the far right of the lights, and the Ethernet 1 port (which provides the POE) is on and flashing. The far left light (looks like a little man) comes up (along with the center light on the top of the unit) when I turn it on; but I never see the 5G/2G lights come on.
Ping: The unit will respond to an ARP Ping from the RB-450G.
IP Scan: The unit does not show up in an IP Scan from the RB-450G.
The directions refer to connecting to the wireless and then opening a page to http://192.168.88.1 but the wireless network never appears (checked with my cell phone - Motorola G3 - and 2012 era laptop’s built-in wireless - both support 802.11a/b/g in the 2.4GHz range), and the DHCP’d address doesn’t seem to respond at all.
Just to verify - I also tried plugging in the second unit and got the mostly same results; difference is the ARP ping doesn’t work but the IP Scan does.
Advise? What am I doing wrong?
NOTE: The POE injector use is only temporary. My long term goal is to have them plugged into the Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM…but I need one working now before I can get everything else in place.
As mistry stated, I have my two cap ACs in the same setup to my hex.
As soon as they were powered up, winbox found them and I cannot recall exactly but I think they pulled LANips from the hex.
The default configuration is fantastic, I didnt have to a damn thing. (other than configure user/password etc.).
I programmed the two radios, created a virtual radio on one of them.
I had three different VLANS 2 on one and one on the other to add to the mix
Boom up and running.
(turned of wps and that type of garbage, oh and for my 5ac to work I had to chose 20/40/80 Ceee )
Winbox requires Windows…which I don’t generally run …guess I can try it on my wife’s computer (only Windows computer in the house and that’s b/c she’s a CPA; otherwise it wouldn’t be either), but was hoping to just use WebFig like I do on my RB450G. Planning to ultimately manage via Ansible if I can; but my Linksys is getting weak in signal strength so need something quicker.
Yes, I found the direction about using Wine on Mac; would be nice if they put directions likewise for Linux - even just a passing mention would be good. Would prefer a native solution, but oh well.
Got everything working once I set a couple routes and IPs on the interfaces.