I had previously (couple of month back) already some issues with hap ac2 as “repeater” while on the road:
2.4G WLAN as station connected to remote GW, WLAN 5G as my local Wifi router for my laptop and phone etc.
Now last week I had the time and occasion to again try to this up in a different place and had again issues:
Only changes made are (on 6.45.6):
Reset hap AC2 with default config (dual band AP)
remove WLAN1 from LAN list, and as well from BRIDGE
add WLAN1 to WAN i/f list
add DHCP client on WLAN1 i/f
Set WLAN1 to station mode, add SSID and security profile as needed
→ Wifi connects ! Great!
→ DHCP client does not get any IP address, status “searching”. Log shows that requests where sent
Other devices do connect to the AP (in this case was a Tenda hotel AP).
Any idea? I saw this DHCP client issue before but never had time to check it out.
It is really annoying as I like such setup (2G Station with 5G Wifi) but it does not work in many places due to this issue.
Did I oversaw the obvious ?
21:30:37 wireless,info 4C:ED:FB:B2:C0:D0@wlan1 established connection on 2437000, SSID ViperNet
21:30:37 dhcp,debug,state dhcp-client on wlan1 entering <selecting...> state
21:30:38 dhcp,debug,state dhcp-client on wlan1 entering <requesting...> state
21:30:38 dhcp,info dhcp-client on wlan1 got IP address 192.168.69.157
21:30:38 dhcp,debug,state dhcp-client on wlan1 entering <bound> state
Do you connect hap ac2 as a client to a Mikrotik AP or some 3rd party AP?
Could it be that “station” implementation on Hap AC2 has issues?
When doing torch on wlan1 I see that no (zero traffic/packets) came back from the AP to the client (DHCP request goes out, but no RX frame received).
This while wlan1 interface shows “connected” …
In the test above I was connected to an Asus AC58U.
I’ll cleanup my config and post it here so that you can compare it with yours.
LE: added config wlan1-client.rsc (3.53 KB)