Dual Radio Wireless Mesh (WDS)

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Ok What the BEEP!!

I am trying to do the folowing:

4X Routerboard 532s (two RB52s each)

Router board radio config: (Same for all RB532s)
MikroTik WDS: SuperB,Nstream,WPA (Connection, access lists for all other RB WDS radios.)
MikroTik AP: B/G, open access.

The “main feed” router is set up in the folowing manor:
Ether1 = input,DHCP client, (gateway interface)
MikroTik-WDS = ap bridge, WDS mode = dynamic, default bridge = WDS Bridge, Nstream,WPA, connection list and access list for all other WDS router interfaces.
MikroTik AP: ap bridge, open access. (member of the WDS bridge via bridge menu (not under WDS in wireless)
(DHCP, DNS, etc all via the “feed router”)

Slave routers:
same config as the “main feed” router except I can only get the “slaves” to connect if they are set to “Station WDS” if I set them to “ap bridge” they will not even try to associate with any other device (feed router or other slaves)..

(All Ether 3s belong to the bridge group via bridge menu)

The issue is that I want to set up a “Mesh”, not a “Star”…

I will probably need to hop from one “slave to another” on one of the links..

I need to use one radio in each RB532 as a “mesh interface” and the other as an “AP interface”.. I want all inter router traffic on a 2.4Ghz (SuperG) WPA, Restriced Access Mesh backbone.

I need the other interface in each RB532 to run open 802.11B/G for client access.


The “Slave WDS” Vs the “ap bridge” seems to be the issue…

I am running 2.9.34, Routing test, RSTP test. (for rstp on the bridges.)

Help… I need to deploy this tommowow AM !!!



Thing that make you go Hmmmmmm…

Craig

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The problem is that WDS for Nstreme protocol requires using station-wds mode on one of the peers. Configurations with WDS between AP modes (bridge and ap-bridge) will not work.

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By george, I think you got it…

I disabled the Nstream on the root AP and on a slave and set the slave to “ap bridge” and it associated with WDS.

Up came the net..

I just reset all slaves the same way..

All slaves came back online.
All APs associated with their neibors.

Traffic flows correctly, and cell hopping works flawlesly..

Thanks for the quick advice…

MikroTik ROCKS !! :smiley:

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csickles , I need to make a setup exactly as your Mesh WDS , I have some questions about that , if you can give me some infoemation about the configuration it will be a great help ,..

my yahoo and msn Messenger is samsoft08 .

thanks ..

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I have set you up in MSN..
Just waiting for you to accept.

Craig

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its : samsoft08@hotmail.com

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sergejs..

All is working well except that I have two RB532s that want to keep failing to setup the WPA/WPA2..

All settings are the same as ALL APs will connect to the Head End router.
At least 1 of each of the slaves connects to thies two stuborn routers and establishes WPA..

I have checked connect and access lists and all MAC addressed and security profiles are ok..

the error says… 4way auth timeout …

Any ideas… I still need to deploy in the morning.. I am going in at 5:00 AM to try and get the mesh ready for deployment…

Any pointers will be helpfull and appreciated..

Craig

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Check that security-profiles settings match on both routers, if you still unable to find out the problem, generate support output files from routers and send them to support (support@mikrotik.com).

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sergejs..

I will check them again… These were all created from a restore file and the interfaces tweaked in.. so the security settings are the same…

I will generate Sup files and get them out ASAP…

Craig

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I found it..

It was a “-” in one of the Conection settings screwing up the SSID string..

Baisickly it was a fat finger error !!


Once corrected, all APs connected up and Life was good..

Once I got out on site however, The APs could not penetrate the walls correctly, and I had to break the WDS system in to two WDS systems (one for each zone of the building..) Oh what FUN !!


Thanks !!

Craig

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Craig, nice to hear that you have resolved issues with encryption.