Mikrotik WDS Mesh setup problems

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Hi guys,

I am fighting here almost a month with 2 mikrotik devices while trying to make them working in mesh setup. The idea is as follow.

  1. One mikrotik connected to internet and also act as AP for clients.
  2. Rest of devices connected to main AP over WiFi and use internet from it.
  3. Same SSID must be seen for clients.


    Now what i have tried so far is everything written and nothing is working. The issue is that i can’t get WDS interface pingable.

Lets start what is not clear to me:.

  1. Main AP is in mode AP Bridge. Should it be in that mode or in WDS Master?
  2. Rest of the devices are also in AP Bridge.
  3. When having either bridge or mesh interface - do i need to add wlan interfaces as well or only dynamic created wds interfaces are enough to connect between each other?
  4. I have 3 antennas on each device and all of them are in mesh mode - do i need all of them or only 1 is enough? Can the antenna be both AP for client and WDS?
  5. Do i need to have same frequency on all antennas?
  6. What mode do i need to use on wlan interface - WDS master or AP Bridge
  7. If i set all to AP Bridge - can WDS work or it needs separate antenna only for this link?

Tried both Mesh-interface with WDS mode dynamic-mesh and interface mesh - not working
Also tried bridge mode with RSTP and WDS mode dynamic - also not working

What is working sometimes is ARP ping, but no IP ping.


The bridge setup :

  1. Bridge ip on main device - 192.168.1.1
  2. Bridge ip on rest of the devices - 192.168.1.2…so on
  3. All antennas are on same frequence, SSID is same, wds mode is dynamic, interface is bridge.

I see wds interfaces are created and add to bridge interface. However i can’t get any ping from 192.168.1.1 to any other ip that is assigned to AP.

The Mesh interface setup:

  1. Mesh ip is 192.168.88.1 on main device. Bridge still has same ip 192.168.1.1
  2. Mesh on the rest is 192.168.88.1 and so on. Bridge ip remains the same.
  3. WDS mode is change to dynamic-mesh and port to mesh.
  4. No wlan interfaces are added to mesh interface. Only WDS interfaces are there. Wlans are left on bridge interface for client access.

The idea is to have default gw on all device to be mesh ip of main device - 192.168.88.1

The main problem is that i can’t get any of the ip pingable in both ways.

What am i missing in the setup. I have read all the docs that are available and nothing is working.

I am not able to provide with any config as i am changing all the time to get it working, but this thing drives me crazy.

Thanks a lot

2

Put “/int wire export compact”, “/int bri export compact”, “/ip add export compact”, result on both radio here.

3

Hi,

Here it is

Second AP
/interface wireless
set 0 band=2ghz-onlyn disabled=no distance=indoors frequency=2412 l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge name=wlan1-2412 radio-name=AP2a ssid=Test wds-default-bridge=Mesh wds-mode=dynamic-mesh wireless-protocol=any
set 1 band=2ghz-onlyn default-forwarding=no disabled=no distance=indoors frequency=2412 l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge name=wlan2-2437 radio-name=AP2b ssid=Test wds-default-bridge=Mesh wds-mode=dynamic-mesh wireless-protocol=any
set 2 band=2ghz-onlyn default-forwarding=no disabled=no distance=indoors frequency=2412 l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge name=wlan3-2462 radio-name=AP2c ssid=Test wds-default-bridge=Mesh wds-mode=dynamic-mesh wireless-protocol=any
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] supplicant-identity=MikroTik

/interface bridge
add l2mtu=2290 name=bridgeHS protocol-mode=rstp
/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridgeHS interface=wlan2-2437
add bridge=bridgeHS interface=wlan3-2462
add bridge=bridgeHS interface=wlan1-2412

/ip address
add address=192.168.1.2/24 interface=bridgeHS network=192.168.1.0
add address=192.168.88.2/24 interface=Mesh


Main AP

/interface wireless
set 0 band=2ghz-onlyn disabled=no distance=indoors frequency=2412 l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge name=wlan1-2412 radio-name=AP1a ssid=Test wds-default-bridge=Mesh wds-mode=dynamic-mesh wireless-protocol=any
set 1 band=2ghz-onlyn default-forwarding=no disabled=no distance=indoors frequency=2412 l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge name=“wlan2=2437” radio-name=AP1b ssid=Test wds-default-bridge=Mesh wds-mode=dynamic-mesh wireless-protocol=any
set 2 band=2ghz-onlyn default-forwarding=no disabled=no distance=indoors frequency=2412 l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge name=wlan3-2462 radio-name=AP1c ssid=Test wds-default-bridge=Mesh wds-mode=dynamic-mesh wireless-protocol=any
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] supplicant-identity=MikroTik

/interface bridge
add l2mtu=2290 name=bridgeHS
/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridgeHS interface=“wlan2=2437”
add bridge=bridgeHS interface=wlan3-2462
add bridge=bridgeHS interface=wlan1-2412

/ip address
add address=192.168.1.1/24 comment=LAN interface=bridgeHS
add address=192.168.88.1/24 interface=Mesh