How to make a Wireless Bridge, using WDS?

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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in the MT how to :
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.8/howto/howto.content
there is a good and an easy example for how to make WDS using 1 Wlan card at each point .. I guess its not very different setup if we want to use 2 Wlan cards with 2.4 and 5 Ghz band at each AP , using 5Ghz band for WDS connection and 2.4Ghz band for connecting clients … NOW , in the how to they made a new interface : bridge1 , which contains the Wlan and the Wds interfaces .. in my case I’ll have 2 Wlan cards so how shall I bridge them with WDS ? and how can I assign the 5Ghz to WDS connection and the 2.4Ghz to the clients connections ?
please I need to know how couse i didnt find how in every place i’ve read beside I’m new to Bridging and WDS ..

my network is 192.168.1.0 /24
gateway 192.168.1.1

AP’s : 1st — MT box ( P4 PC ) + 2 Wlan cards
2nd and 3rd ---- RB532 + 2Wlan cards each RB.

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This example should help you,
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Wireless_repeater

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If I have a main gateway with 2 wlan cards.
How do I config the main gateway? Like a repeater?

Only one last question in the http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Wireless_repeater we have:

/interface wireless set wlan2 disabled=no mode=ap-bridge band=5ghz frequency=5805 ssid=To_clients wds-mode=static
for clients

and in clients site (AP1 and AP2) we have:

/ interface wireless set wlan1 disabled=no mode=ap-bridge band=5ghz frequency=5805 ssid=To_clients wds-mode=static

Shunt we set wlan2 in the clients side??

Thank you.

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Wlan1 interface is conecting to the main AP, Wlan2 distributes connection to other clients (you can add clients to connect to Wlan2). They will be able to connect even when WDS mode is enabled on AP.

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that example in WIKI is a perfect example to build a REPEATER with WDS , no mention to the client AP’s to use 2 Wireless cards ..

the WDS in the repeater section is OK and understood .. but we need the WDS in the main AP which has 2 Wireless card + 2 ethernet cards this main AP is the main router,gateway,etc.. which is connected to the internet source .. and also the setup in the other 2AP’s which have 2Wlan each .. thanks a lot ..

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WDS :open_mouth:

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let see what we have here :

1- AP1 + 2.4GHz WCard + 5GHz WCard .
2- AP2 as station-wds + 2.4GHz WCard + 5GHz WCard
2- AP3 as station-wds + 2.4GHz WCard + 5GHz WCard

AP1 is a PC RouterOS ..
2.4GHz is for clients connections.
5GHz is for WDS connections.
ethernet1 = public
ethernet2 = lan

AP2 and AP3 are RB532 ..
2.4GHz is for clients connections.
5GHz is for WDS connections

you see its quite simple !!!

sergejs can you help in setting this up please ??
anybody???

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Use WDS to establish communications between 5Ghz omnis, probably this will be useful for you,
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Mesh_wds

You can simply add second Wlan interface to bridge, as it uses mode=ap-bridge, you should not expect problems adding it to bridge.

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note that when you configure that briding it is suggested that you enable the RSTP package and create the bridge with the protocol-mode=rstp to avoid bridge loops.

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ok , if we assume that we have 2 Wcards 2.4G for clients and 5G for WDS so it will be like that :

/interface bridge port add interface=ether1 bridge=bridge1
/interface bridge port add interface=wlan1 bridge=bridge1
/interface bridge port add interface=wlan2 bridge=bridge1

/interface wireless set wlan1 mode=ap-bridge band=2.4ghz-b/g frequency=2437
ssid=mesh wds-mode=dynamic wds-default-bridge=bridge1 disabled=no

/interface wireless set wlan2 mode=ap-bridge band=5ghz frequency=5xxx
ssid=mesh wds-mode=dynamic wds-default-bridge=bridge1 disabled=no

and what about routing , IP addresses ?
if we assume that this node has to be 192.168.1.12 Ip address
and the clients who will be connected to this node will get thies IP from the main DHCP server from the main AP ..

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is it nobody using WDS ? its so strange !!! or its top secret setup !!!

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yes, nice…make centralzed AAA for hotspot and pppoe on wds bridge…like running ethernet to ethernet…and this screen shot at station-wds linked.

regards
Hasbullah.com

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well , i’m very new on RB , and I also have some misunderstanding about bridges !!!
about the IP address :
is it correct when I bridged ether1 + wlan1+wlan2 together in the same RB ? so if its correct , should I give the bridge the IP that I want to give to the node ? like:

:/ ip address add address=192.168.1.12/24 interface=bridge1

yes I want to centerlized the hotspot ,DHCP so there will be no natting at the node side .. correct ?

what about the ssid ? I gave the 2 Wcards the same ssid = mesh ? and the same configuration , so how can we recognize what Wcard is for WDS link and What Wcard for the clients link ?

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Yes, go ahead set the IP on the Bridge Interface.

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ok , but the misunderstanding is that this node will connect to the main with Wlan1 and to the clients with Wlan2 , with same ssid ???
i just wanna know the technic or the procedure that goes inside that node is it like that :

client ------ (( Wlan2 ----- bridge ------ Wlan1 )) -------Main AP

and when I ping to that node what will I get ? or what card will reply ? is it Wlan1 only ? or the bridge ?

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UP ^^^