There might have been topics around this issue already, I’m aware of that, however I couldn’t find clear answer for my question.
In my network I have collection of several mikrotik devices, variety of architectures (arm, mipsbe, smips) all running stable/lt versions of ros6. Generally, it’s RB4011 acting as a main device in the topology and capsman, whereas other devices are caps. It’s all working pretty well, I have VLANs configured, two wireless networks for different purposes and I’m mostly happy with it. However, some of the devices I have are rather low-end or old. It’s just a collection of devices I acummulated over years and I found good appliance for them thanks to capsman, but slowly I’d like to replace them with newer devices and upgrade to ros7.
Unfortunately, I find it rather non-trivial. Recently I bought hAP ax lite (where minimal version of ros is 7) and to my suprise it was impossible for me to add it to my existing CAPsMAN/CAPs topology at least in a way I’ve configured all other CAP devices. I didn’t have a time to dig in the topic of “advanced wireless networks”, but before I do, I have a general question.
Is it possible to run hybrid infrastructure of ros6 and ros7 mikrotiks acting as distributed network of CAPs at all? As I said, ultimately I’d like to migrate to newer devices and upgrade to ros7, however, given amount of devices I have it won’t happen at once (would be too expensive), so I need to streamline whole process, by replacing CAPs one by one.