Hi.
I have been adding some wds interfaces and grouping them on a bridge. Right now I have 12 wds interfaces (plus several clients) and my router goes down and cannot pass traffic any more. Is there a limit (hardware maybe?) to support this kind of topology?
I would like to add several more wds interfaces.
RB-523 2.9.8
SR5 card
What for you need such a lot wds interface ?
I think it’s not a “limit” but your hardware is not able to handle more..
Btw: isn’t it possible to downgrade Wds links to regular clients ?
I have only one wds link (ok at this time with WRT54G) but i’m amazed of bandwith lost when i compare it with client/AP topolofie i had before.
before it was about 36 Mbps (2Mbyte/s real) now i have max 11 Mbps (150kByte/s real) and only the topology changed not the hardware.
BTW: Using RB532 which way is the best to realize a P2P link ? Wds ? What about the bandwith i will loose with it? Client/AP ?
Ciao Gerd
please send the support output file from this router to support@mikrotik.com
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Angel Behar
I’m experiencing the same problem.
I have more than 15 clients connected using WDS to my central AP, and from time to time everything hungs up for seconds, and/or I have almost no bandwidth.
How did you managed with it?
if you are using WDS then there is a bridge - then there has to be rstp or stp enabled, try that out, maybe this is cure for your problems
just curious…why so many wds clients?
non ip traffic maybe? but cant you do that with a EOIP tunnel?
EDIT: duh..repeating?
I'm using WDS cause some clients link to others. But most of them link to base AP.
There are bridges, all using rstp, as instructed in wiki wds. Why is this a problem?
As stated by mikrotik: if you can use WDS instead of EoIP, use WDS. It reduces overhead.
Yes, everything is linked, so I may be having non IP traffic. I added some firewall rules, but i'm not sure if they are working... don't know where to loook! 
Chofex
/ ip firewall filter
add chain=input connection-state=established comment="Accept established connections"
add chain=input connection-state=related comment="Accept related connections"
add chain=input connection-state=invalid action=drop comment="Drop invalid connections"
add chain=input protocol=udp action=accept comment="UDP" disabled=no
add chain=input protocol=icmp limit=50/5s,2 comment="Allow limited pings"
add chain=input protocol=icmp action=drop comment="Drop excess pings"
add chain=input protocol=tcp dst-port=22 comment="SSH for secure shell"
add chain=input protocol=tcp dst-port=8291 comment="winbox"
add chain=input src-address=10.11.11.0/24 comment="From our private LAN"
add chain=input action=log log-prefix="DROP INPUT" comment="Log everything else"
add chain=input action=drop comment="Drop everything else"