CAPsMAN - common provisioning rule for multiple devices

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hello, I have question about CAPsMAN (wfw2) provisioning rules. Is it possible to have one rule to match radios from two different CAPs? I have CAP ax and WAP ac, and would like to provision same config to both of them so I created rule :

supported-bands=5ghz-ax,5ghz-ac action=create-dynamic-enabled master-configuration=WiFiConfig5G name-format="%I-5g-wifi"

but in this config, only CAP ax is provisioned. To provision both CAPs I have to separate this to two rules:

supported-bands=5ghz-ax action=create-dynamic-enabled master-configuration=WiFiConfig5G name-format="%I-5g-wifi"
supported-bands=5ghz-ac action=create-dynamic-enabled master-configuration=WiFiConfig5G name-format="%I-5g-wifi"

Maybe I missed something but at this point such config makes no sense to me. Is it possible that if provision rule is matched, it can not be used for another radio?

BTW, even with both radios provisioned by two rules I can not get them added to dynamic neighbor group for steering. Only MAC’s from CAP ax radios are one the list.

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Why not use supported-bands=5ghz-ac?

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supported-bands=5ghz-ac action=create-dynamic-enabled master-configuration=WiFiConfig5G name-format="%I-5g-wifi"

This line alone should provision AX and AC devices. As AX devices support 802.11ac as well.

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I found in your configuration mention “format=”%I-5g-wifi"" which %I will be replace with Identity, where could I find the documents about this variable. Thank you. :slight_smile:

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Here: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=46759946#WifiWave2(7.12andolder)-CAPsMANProvisioning at section regarding “name-format” but don’t expect too much. There is only one additional %C :slight_smile:

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OK I see the point. So I should read:

supported-bands=5ghz-ax,5ghz-ac

as: any device that supports AC AND AX, not AC OR AX. Logic :slight_smile:

Regarding steering from my first post, everything works. All interfaces were added to neighbor group after DFS channel scan :slight_smile: