CAPsMAN cant provision 5GHz SSID after 2.4GHz configuration

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Hi Guys,

I have an RB2011 as the CAPsMAN mangager and a hAP ac Lite as a CAP

RB2011 2.4GHz
hAP ac lite 2.4GHz + 5GHz AC

I have configured 2.4GHz just fine. Everything seems to work, although, the both boards seem to choose the same channel every time. If you can see anything I have done wrong that would cause that, please don’t hesitate to point it out..

Can anyone tell me, how would I add a 2nd SSID (MikroTik 5GHz) to broadcast on the 5GHz card in AC mode? I have been trying for a few hours now and I just keep hitting various different issues.

This is how I have configured everything so far.

CAPS Manager is on the RB2011. Below is the output from that board.

Provisioning

[admin@RB2011-Office] /caps-man provisioning> print
Flags: X - disabled 
 0   radio-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 hw-supported-modes="" identity-regexp="" common-name-regexp="" 
     ip-address-ranges="" action=create-dynamic-enabled master-configuration=2.4GHz slave-configurations="" 
     name-format=identity name-prefix=""

Configuration

[admin@RB2011-Office] /caps-man provisioning> /caps-man configuration print
 0 name="2.4GHz" mode=ap ssid="MikroTik" security=security1 datapath=datapath1 channel=2.4GHz

Channels
[admin@RB2011-Office] /caps-man provisioning> /caps-man channel print
0 name=“2.4GHz” frequency=2412,2417,2422,2427,2432,2437,2442,2447,2452,2457,2462,2467,2472
control-channel-width=20mhz band=2ghz-b/g/n

Datapaths

[admin@RB2011-Office] /caps-man provisioning> /caps-man datapath print   
 0 name="datapath1" client-to-client-forwarding=yes bridge=bridge1

Security

[admin@RB2011-Office] /caps-man provisioning> /caps-man security print       
 0 name="security1" authentication-types=wpa-psk,wpa2-psk encryption=aes-ccm passphrase="supersecretpassword"
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@normis could you comment? Any help received would be massively appreciated.

Thanks guys

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Hi,
I am not an expert but, if you are willing to try i can suggest this as a possible solution.
First, you shoud create a configuration for 5Ghz network (SSID, channel ..etc)
Then you should create two provisining rules. One for 2.4Ghz and one for 5Ghz network with 2-4-config for first provisioning rule and 5ghz-config for 5.Ghz radios.
First provisionig rule can have hw-supported-modes=gn paramater for 2.4Ghz and second provisioning rule for hw-supported-modes=ac for 5Ghz radios.

Not sure if this will work but it is simple to try.

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The problem seems to be that I was using 00:00:00:00:00:00 as the radio MACs for more than one radio type.

It doesnt seem to work. As soon as I added specific radio MACs it behaved exactly as expected.

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The problem seems to be that I was using 00:00:00:00:00:00 as the radio MACs for more than one radio type.

It doesnt seem to work. As soon as I added specific radio MACs it behaved exactly as expected.