I’ve gone back to the drawing board a bit and set up the metal as CPE, enabled dhcp, and the metal seems to be happy. I am attempting to get the hAP to play nice with it and allow me to use the hAP as a switch with a/c wireless. So far, I’m striking out. I’m completely new to these devices so I’m likely missing some very simple steps. I’ve royally screwed my config as of right now so will be blowing it out and starting over.
Anyone know a good guide on how to set up the hAP as a switch with a/c wireless being served up? If this is a stupid config, please advise and I will adjust/reconfigure.
I’ve seen and replied to your post on reddit, and here is some additional info on how to setup hAP as switch with wireless.
On hap create bridge, you can also disable rstp by setting it to none (double click on bridge and find it there). Go to Bridge>Ports and add all ports (ether1-4 and wlan1 and wlan2) to bridge you created. In order to be able to access hap via IP address, go to IP>Address and add address from same subnet as your ether1 interface on metal.
For example if metal has 192.168.88.1/24 address on ether1 and DHCP is giving out addresses from 192.168.88.10-192.168.254, address you should set on hap is 192.168.88.2/24. If you configured metal properly, upon connecting computer to any ether port of hap, you should get ip address from your dhcp (on metal1) and internet should work.
In Wireless>Security profiles create a new profile name it whatever you like, mode=dynamic keys, authentication type should be WAP2 PSK and unicast and group ciphers should be aes ccm.
In WPA2 Pre-Shared Key, type password you would like for wifi and that’s it.
In Wireless>Interface double click on wlan1 and in Wireless tab mode=ap bridge, SSID=WhateverYouLike and as Security profile select profile you created in previous step, everything else can be left at default.
Repeat same steps for wlan2 (you can use same security profile).
locodog- Thanks for the instructions. I appreciated your response on reddit and have been digging away but just ran into a knowledge gap I wasnt sure how to patch. I’ve not tried these steps yet but they seem straightforward and I should be good to go. Thanks again for the advice. I’ll let you know how I fair. Not sure if you’ve got any use for it but I also gave you reddit gold a few days back when you responded.
Everything except DHCP appears to be working from the hAP. The metal is/was giving out dhcp to the hap (now a static IP instead of dynamic) but the hAP is not passing DHCP requests through to the metal. I looked at doing dhcp relay but it appears that is intended for use passing dhcp to a different subnet rather than two devices in a chain.
Metal: router/dhcp (192.168.10.1)
hAP: switch with dual channel wap (192.168.10.2)
For giggles, I tried enabling dhcp relay on the hap and adding 10.2 to relay on the metal. No pez. I’m not sure where else to look?
Been trying different things and am still unable to figure out why dchp isnt passing from the metal to the hAP. When I set a static IP, all traffic routes as intended and the connection is solid. DCHP simply isnt “making it”. If my googlefu is off, please direct me and I can do my own searches but nothing ive been able to type in has lead me down the right path.
I have seen similar problems with DHCP . When I assign the DHCP to a physical interface things get flakey. If I have DHCP on a bridge interface it works pretty well.
Thanks for the pointer. Currently, DHCP is handled through the bridge on the metal so we are good to go there. I feel like it’s a switchmode kind of thing but I cant find anything specifically to agree with that.