CapsMan and Caps

RouterOS General
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I am trying to connect a hAP Lt and a mAP lt together for a customer. The mAP lt is for a single room that is not covered by the main router. I have tried setting up Capsman and a CAP and I can get it working EXCEPT the DHCP will not work on the mAP lt. This customer would like to be able to go from one router to the other and not worry about having to reconnect.

I have been able to make this work using a switch between the two, but for some reason I cannot get it working on two routers connected together. Does anyone have an idea of what I am doing wrong?

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DHCP Server on one router the Capsman and DHCP Client on the Caps should work. 1 quick thing if you are trying to use wireless radio on Capsman Server you need to allow 127.0.0.1

3

Could you please share your configuration?
/export hide-sensitive file=anythingyoulike

This customer would like to be able to go from one router to the other and not worry about having to reconnect.

Is this the use case for using CAPsMAN? Because, in my opinion, you better not use CAPsMAN: it will take some unnecessary resources from the router.

Still puzzled why it is working with an additional switch. Is it a managed switch?

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Yes it is a managed switch, a CSS106-1G-4P-1S, although I am using it mostly because of the POE ability, and I needed a switch, and I had one.

I will get you the configuration files as soon as I can. My days are filled to overflowing right now. It may take me a couple days, I have to recreate it because I redid the configuration so they would both work.

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That I did not know. Io will try that. Thanks!

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Given that your issue was of a different nature, I think your firewall on the CAPsMAN router didn’t block this internal connection from the colocated cAP via the loopback interface, so this will not resolve that other issue (DHCP not passing between the standalone cAP and the CAPsMAN). But I too have no idea how insertion of a switch “into” the cable between the cAP and the CAPsMAN can change the behavior.