Do I have to separate configurations within CAPsMan?

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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I have a CAPsMan installation, and multiple settings confuse me.

For example n CAPs Configuration I have Channel main tab where I can set channel, and then underneath Channel selector I have the common Frequency, Secondary Frequency, Control Channel Width, etc.

Am I supposed to set the channel in channels, or I can simply use the CAPs configuration menu for everything? The same goes for Data Path.

I would really appreciate good explaination of the use of those separate, but same settings sets, and what happens when I set for example - only reselect period in Channels tab as a setting, and other stuff on CAPs configuration? - Am I right to assume that they will combine, but that the setting in Channel tab has precedence and override capacity?

Thanks

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Indeed, you will find useful to configure the specific settings as the work like “profiles” you can override under interface tab.

I usually create all the settings separately (channels, datapaths, security, rates, and all together into configuration), then I set the interfaces.

If I want to override a specific setting, I will set it at the specific interface (that will override all the other settings).

If you use the configuration profiles, then you can use them as defaults for newly discovered CAPs.

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Thanks!


So if I understand correctly, the Datapath, Channels and Security Config are generalized setup items that I can call from “Configurations” profiles, and override them in them?

So in the order of application we have:

  1. applied, for example, selected Datapath profile
  2. applied corrections that are set-up in the “Configurations” tab profiles
  3. resulting set is 1 + 2, where additional and changed settings from 2. override the 1. if set
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Correct, and the same applies to CAP interfaces.

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Thanks. To set CAP details (which override all) I would have to set CAP manually? Mine are all dynamic, and locked out from setting them.