Good morning everyone,
I am new to Mikrotik world, but not to Wi-Fi projects.
I need help with a configuration. The goal is to interconnect 3 APs mANTBox ax 15s using 5Ghz, create a single 2.4 SSID (across the 3 APs) where clients can connect.
Is there any guide available to achive this?
Also, I am looking at the CAPsMAN configuration to provide configurations to the other CAPs, by electing one of the AP as the CAPsMAN. My question here is: can the provisioning be provided via 5Ghz SSID? I mean, for the first configuration, the new CAPs need to be connected to CAPsMAN using ethernet port (if I don’t want to configure even the 5Ghz) and once all the configurations have been passed, CAPs and CAPsMAN can keep communicating using 5Ghz. In case I need to change something on the 2.4Ghz, CAPs will receive the configuration through 5GHz, but in case I need to deploy a new VLAN over 5GHz, do CAPs will be able to work, or in that case, I need to connect again over ethernet cable from CAPsMAN?
I tried to look at Mikrotik documentation about my first question, https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/ROS/pages/8978441/HWMPplus+mesh
but I don’t have /interface/wirelss at all, only wifi.
I also tried to search online, but I was not able to find a proper thread.
Thanks in advance.
Hi all,
an update:
I was able to make the 2 AP communicating via Wi-Fi. One is configured as AP and the other is configured as Station.
I still have some doubts on how to proceed with the third one:
I want that the third AP connects to the AP that now is in station mode. My question is: Do I need to create a virtual Wi-Fi interface on the second AP and set it up as AP and configure the third AP as station using the same SSID?
Documentation talks about HWMPplus mesh and WDS, options that I don’t have on my mANTBox ax 15s. I only have mesh menu. Are there any guides to configure mesh as HWMPplus mesh does?
Thanks.
Ideally you want to have “the middle” mANTbox configured as AP and the other two as station-bridge … you’ll have the least problems. Mind that AP doesn’t have to be closest to router, it can be anywhere … L2 traffic flows symmetrical over a WiFi connection, only L1 control is done by AP.
If you want to have device, closest to router, configured as AP, then the middle one has to be configured as station bridge on its master interface … and it needs virtual wifi interface configured as AP. Unnecessary complication IMO when there are only 3 devices in a string (with 4 or more it is necessary to have AP/station combination on certain devices).