hap ax2 config copied to hap ax3?

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and:
mb = millibits

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or millibarns :open_mouth: though more commonly :wink: inverse squared gigaelectronvolts are used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millibarn

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anyhow devices in the same room as the AX2 its pushing more than 200 MB on 2 GHZ and more than 700 MB on the 5 GHZ

I’ve just got 160Mbps (ducks in case I’ve got the suffix wrong) on 2.4GHz sat right in front of my hAP ax2. Pretty impressive as the 2.4GHz channel is pretty congested here. I need to read up on the Wi-Fi 6 voodoo magic some more as it how to manages to get such high speeds compared to Wi-Fi 4. It’s clearly making more effective use of the same bandwidth.

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excuuuuuseee meee :laughing:

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hi Gurus ,

yes I’m working on VLANning now :slight_smile:

I created a VLAN bound to port eth5 of the AX2 and assigned an IP address to the VLAN.

I then tried setting up DHCP but told me couldn’t set up DHCP on a slave interface, so I set up the DHCP on the ethernet interface 5 but seems that the DHCP wasn’t assigning IP to my computer ( connected through a docking station)

then what I did was I created a Bridge and included eth5 & VLAN and set up the DHCP server on the bridge and Lo and behold the thingy assigned an IP to my PC :laughing:

is this right?

I’m playing around with these configs because the real scope is to get a Mikrotik CSR switch in the following weeks and want to connect my computers to the LAN through the CSR, it through VLANS.
so in the future the client PCS will be getting the IP assigned through the CSR connected to the AX2.

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Although it works, it’s not the recommended way.
See here for some study material:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/using-routeros-to-vlan-your-network/126489/1

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This documentation points to the prefered way as through VLAN tagging?

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VLAN handling over 1 bridge.
Should always work, regardless of device type.

For some devices it is possible performance gains can be obtained doing things slightly different (see relevant pages for that in Help).
But the generic VLAN handling using 1 bridge will always work.

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thanks!!

this is probably the most logical way to work with VLANS!!!

I just want to understand why it’s working :

currently i have :
VLAN BRIDGE
-bound eth port 5
-bound VLAN interface ( bound to eth port 5)

IP range assigned to VLAN interface pool but DHCP assigned to the bridge!!

probabaly because at the end of the day the DHCP server just sees a pool??

therefore all I really needed was:

VLAN BRIDGE
-bound VLAN interface ( bound to eth port 5)

it would have worked also i can imagine!

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this is probably the most logical way to work with VLANS!!!

Not sure that’s not an oxymoron :smiley:

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Read that linked material again and again and again since you are making some conceptual errors.

VLAN interface needs to be attached to bridge, not to ether port
DHCP then needs to be attached to VLAN interface

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thanks I will read the documentation!

but i just want to get the initial process straight as i have one question:

step1) CREATE a BRIDGE
step2) CREATE a VLAN interface and bind to the above created Bridge
step3) CREATE an IP pool and Bind to the VLAN interface and create a DHCP server for this

don’t I also need to bind an ethernet port to this Bridge??

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Reread documentation please.

Obviously those ethernet ports need to be connected to bridge. Only your WAN interface not IF you have a separate WAN connection.
If the device is completely used as bridge/switch, all ether ports are to be connected to bridge.

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Recommended reading about all the bridge personalities: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/routeros-bridge-mysteries-explained/147832/1

It should help understand VLAN tutorial better.