Concurrent AP + Station under MLD possible???

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi - hAP be lite with ROS 24.4

Perhaps trying to be too ambitious, but hoping to:

  • Dual-band AP (SSID on both 2.4 + 5 GHz)
  • Simultaneously run one or more Station interfaces on the 5 GHz radio for WAN failover

This is how it goes:

  1. Without an MLD interface the radios stay inactive with the message mld-interface missing or not MLD
  2. Once I create an MLD interface and assign both wifi1 + wifi2 to it, the radios become active and work well as APs.
  3. As soon as I create virtual interfaces in station mode on wifi2 (which is part of the MLD), those station interfaces remain permanently Inactive (Bound but not Running).
  4. The system also shows the message: "mld-interface only supports AP mode"

Questions:

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or....

  • Is concurrent AP + Station mode supported on the same radio when using MLD on wifi-mediatek?
  • Is this a limitation of the driver that might be worked out in a future release?
  • Or is pure concurrent AP+Station (without MLD) supposed to work, and the forced MLD behaviour is a bug?

Thanks!!