Hi
I have the RB with the double radio, a (wlan1) the use with the 802.11 protocol to connect the client to the AP and the other (wlan2) use the protocol NV2 to connect the other RB.
A RB (RB1), connected to the LAN and the router, has the wlan2 in mode = ap bridge and the other, connected only by radio, are in mode = station bridge
The problem is that many Rb do not see the RB1 (ap bridge)and, therefore, are unable to communicate.
I was advised to activate the WDS in wlan2 of all APs so that communication takes place through it.
I’m a bit dubious as I have the impression that there are 2 messages that overlap, if a RB sees the RB1 as it connects? He feels like the AP or station as WDS?
Have to admit, have got no idea what you are saying. Made a bit of a drawing? What i can say, you should not need WDS and also make sure the station is set to same protocol as the AP bridge. Only thing that would do this, unless you fiddled with security profiles and settings.
Yep, would definitely have to use WDS in order for this setup to function, however, this is a very bad way of doing this. Every time you jump a AP further away from the AP connected to the router, your pings will double. Do not know your RB used as AP, but if possible, rather add an extra card to each AP then set one as station and one as client. This would eliminate ping and connection problems
rb are the RB912UAG-2HPnD with the added module R11E-2HPND.
So on each RB I have the wlan1 and wlan2.
The wlan1 is configured with mode= ap bridge
How do I configure the wlan2?
The first RB, connected to the LAN, with mode = ap bridge, the other in station bridge?
How do RB who are at the top and they do not see the RB1 to communicate with the wlan2 mode = ap bridge?
Personally only use RB433AH and some RB912 but none with R11E-2HPND. However, if you go into winbox under wireless you would should find wlan1 and wlan2 which would be your two wifi cards.
The first RB, connected to the LAN, with mode = ap bridge, the other in station bridge?
This would be the correct setup. One wifi AP Bridge and the other station.
How do RB who are at the top and they do not see the RB1 to communicate with the wlan2 mode = ap bridge?
This sounds like routing problem. In order to test this you could create bridge on ap with wlan1 and wlan2 as ports. This should solve the problem but is not good practices for a bigger network and it would be best to start of with routing
It will work, but not necessary if you have two WLan’s. Set WLan1 on AP connected to router to AP Bridge lets call it Main AP.
On AP 2 set WLan1 to station and connect it to main AP. Set WLan1 to to AP Bridge.
On AP 3 set WLan1 to station and connect it to main AP. Set WLan1 to to AP Bridge.
On AP 4 set WLan1 to station and connect it to main AP. Set WLan1 to to AP Bridge.
and on and on.
Now create bridge on Main AP with Lan and WLan1 as ports of bridge
In rest create bridge with WLan1 and WLan2 as ports of bridge.
This will function without any ip’s.
As mentioned before this is the easy way. Better way is not to use bridging. However then each interface will have to get an ip, not in same sub-net and routes will have to be created. Easy way to do this is by using automatic routing like RIP or OSPF.
Sorry.
On AP 2 set WLan1 to station and connect it to main AP. Set WLan2 to to AP Bridge.
On AP 3 set WLan1 to station and connect it to main AP. Set WLan2 to to AP Bridge.
On AP 4 set WLan1 to station and connect it to main AP. Set WLan2 to to AP Bridge.
Don’t have to connect to AP1. Your original proposal would still function except that you would connect with the client WIFI /Wlan2 to the next AP Bridge / Wlan1 and so forth.