Issues with WPA

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Installing a new RB411 4.16 with an XR2, using NAT. Everything was great until I enabled WPA, all of the interfaces went away in Winbox. I replaced the XR2 with another one and all seemed good. Then after a few minutes after enabling WPA, the interfaces went away again.

Both interfaces seem to disappear after several minutes after I enable WPA. Not sure why why this would cause this behavior. The unit is still reachable on the static address I have on Ether1.

Settings:
Name: Profile1
Mode: dynamic keys
Authentication types: WPA PSK and WPA2 PSK checked
Unicast Cyphers: tkip checked
Group Cyphers: tkip checked
Have an 8 character password all lower case in both WPA and WPA2 preshared keys
Group key update: 00:05:00
Management Protection: allowed
Management Protection key: n/a

What am I doing wrong?

Oh and BTW, the laptop will not connect with WPA enabled. Same behavior with 5.1 installed.

Eric

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The laptop issue is because you have WPA and WPA2 both active at the same time. You effectively have double encryption. I ran into this myself. The only units that will connect with that config is MT based clients. You have to use one or the other.

The interfaces disappearing… ??

I got nothing.