Help with capsman wifi6 setup

[Hawat]

Hello everyone,

iam quite familiar with capsman and wifi5 setup, iam using it for years at home.

But now i will try to help my friend with his home setup and iam stuck and confused that wifi6 capsman doesnt work the same way as wifi5.

Hardware is:

1xHaP ax3 as capsman server

3xHaP ax S as CAPs

I read a lot of guides and topics here, but i failed to set it up correctly.

I experienced a several issues:

1)when CAPs are managed by CAPSMAN, wifi interface wont turn on.

2)I try a few guides but i cant set up haP ax3 as capsman server for its own radios, the way with local loopback not working

3)is here any way to fast switching between CAPs?It work seamlessly at my home wifi5 setup, but it takes too long in wifi6 at my friends home.

4)How about frequencies in wifi6? Can capsman manage it all or should i set them up manualy and if so, how?

Do anyone have any reference config what works?

Actually i cant post my own config because i dont have hardware at my home, but it will come shortly and i need to setup it correctly because its 150km way to exchange them on my friends home.

Thanks and sorry for my english

[erlinden]

Have a look at this topic, which might be of use:

hAP AX S under capsman

It’s very strange. I have set up channel 5180/160MHz, Country : Poland on capsman RB5009, my phone/laptop still connects without issues. Speeds from wifiman, analiti ( via public-servers and iperf3 server located on NAS container) can touch 500-600Mbit, device powered via eth1, ROS v722b6. From first look Poland has same reg-info, no diffrence. Are you still have VLANs on device? [Screenshot_20260201_192336_WiFiman] [Screenshot_20260201_192409] [Screenshot_20260201_192803]

[ortazebra]

/interface wifi security
add authentication-types=wpa2-psk connect-priority=0/1 disabled=no ft=yes ft-over-ds=yes name=HELLO passphrase=XXXXXXXX
/interface wifi configuration
add channel.band=2ghz-ax .skip-dfs-channels=10min-cac .width=20/40mhz country=MYCOUNTRY disabled=no name=cfg_2 security=HELLO ssid=MYSSID steering.rrm=yes .wnm=yes
add channel.band=5ghz-ax .skip-dfs-channels=10min-cac .width=20/40/80mhz country=MYCOUNTRY disabled=no name=cfg_5 security=HELLO ssid=MYSSID steering.rrm=yes .wnm=yes
/interface wifi cap
set discovery-interfaces=bridge enabled=yes
/interface wifi capsman
set enabled=yes interfaces=bridge package-path="" require-peer-certificate=no upgrade-policy=none
/interface wifi provisioning
add action=create-dynamic-enabled disabled=no master-configuration=cfg_2 supported-bands=2ghz-ax
add action=create-dynamic-enabled disabled=no master-configuration=cfg_5 supported-bands=5ghz-ax

Check my basic config. Client roaming works great. I am using 2x HAP AX3.
Config also works without problems with HAP AX S, I am tested it as a CAP this week.

[Hawat]

Thank you for post your config, but iam really stuck with managing hap ax3 own radios. How i can check if evertyhing is OK? Actually iam out of time for testing, so can you post complete config? Thanks a lot..

[ortazebra]

I don’t think my full config will be interesting for you.

Check logs.

If everything right all interfaces will be up and if someone roams you will get messages like “40:5E:F6:4A:BF:94@wifi_AP1(SSID) roamed to 40:5E:F6:4A:BF:94@wifi_AP2(SSID), signal strength -64”

Mikrotik is not “out of box” solution, find your time for testing.

[holvoetn]

Radios local to capsman controller need to be set up locally.
But they will participate in roaming.
You can also use provisioning rules if wanted.

Just set manager to local for those radios on controller itself.

[Hawat]

I can understand you, but as i mentioned before, i have 150km way to my friends place, so iam not happy with my problems.

Anyway, i really dont know, what i did, but now i can see you mentioned entry

72:74:F8:EB:AE:C9@wifi1(kn01) roamed to 72:74:F8:EB:AE:C9@wifi2(kn01), signal strength -55

i will check with ap ax tommorow, so thank you for all patience..