I use ax CAPS and a HeX POE router for CAPSMAN. Main router is a hAP ax3. CAPS are 2 CAP ax and 1 wAP ax. On 5Ghz config FT is enabled, on 2,4Ghz disbled. I have a server inside LAN , available from outside using dst-nat.
My client is an S24 Ultra. If I connect any of the CAPS expect the main router everyting is working fine, but if client roaming back to the main router I receive “no internet available” error. If I try to ping the server I receive “no route to host” error. In this case if I disable the client wifi and enable it again it starts to work or if I wait a few minutes (3-4) also starts to work correctly. I have no idea what should be the problem.
On main router port5 is the WAN port. port1-4 and 2 WIFI ports are in a bridge. port1 connects to the first CAP ax’s port1. CAP ax’s port2 connects to the hEx poe bridge. ON hEX POE all ports are in a bridge and the 2nd CAP ax and wAP ax connects to the hEX POE. on all CAPS all ports are in a bridge. DHCP runs on main router, DNS resolver on the hEX POE.
Last week I did a clear netinstall on all devices, not solved the problem.
Could you be please give me some idea where to start solving the problem. I have absolutly no idea, I tried almost everyting.
SSID is different due to I have many IOT devices and some can drop connection is the SSID is same.
On 2,4Ghz FT is disabled because some of the IOT devices started to play “ping-pong” between CAP ax devices if it was enabled on 2,4GHz, so I disabled.
ax3 interfaces are managed by CAPMAN.
I’m new user , so I have no right to upload config, mayme I can paste here, but it is not short. I exported boot hEX Poe and ax3 config and removed all sensitive data.
Currently bridge hardware offload for the devices with IPQ-PPE switch chip, which include your cAP ax and hAP ax³ is incomplete and MikroTik recommend that you enable RSTP on those devices to disable HW-Offload: Bridging and Switching - RouterOS - MikroTik Documentation
Currently, HW offloaded bridge support for the IPQ-PPE switch chip is still a work in progress. We recommend using, the default, non-HW offloaded bridge (enabled RSTP).
Yes, That is my fault, I forgot to disable it. 2 weeks ago I’ve tried to put the CAPSMAN functionality to the ax^3 , but not solved the problem so moved back it to hEX POE and forgot to disable it on ax^3. Now I disabled, but there was no interference. Thanks for note me.
1 month ago I removed the connect-priority from the wifi configuration because I’ve not experienced any advantage of that, but now I will put is back. Should it be added to both of 5GHz and 2,4GHz config too?
Interesting thread I’ve faced a similar “no internet available” issue during roaming on the AX platform. It seems like certain DHCP or DNS handling quirks pop up when switching access points. Still testing a workaround, but curious if anyone’s had success adjusting roaming sensitivity or lease time?
Thanks. I’ve added to both 2,4Ghz and 5GHz. Some clients started again to play ping-pong between APs.Connects with good signel level, disconects, connects to another AP, disconnects. This is a fix installed camera:
Yesterday I enabled the RSTP on all devices, set the ax^3’s priority to 4000, so that is the root bridge now. I had limited time to test (2 times ), but it worked. During roaming between APs all time I had connection, there was no “no internet available” message, I was able to access all inside resources as well.
During next days I will continue the test.
