I have been running a wireless bridge with one AP in “ap-bridge” mode and the other in “wds-slave” mode. But today I discovered that setting both APs as “ap-bridge” seems to work too. What am I missing, what additional benefit does “wds-slave” mode give? Is the only difference that a wds-slave interface will be disabled if it cannot find an AP with the given SSID?
Hi.
wds-slave is a kind of AP and its purpose is for mesh deployment.
It can scan frequency define in scan-list and connect to an Access Point in the new frequency (this couldn’t been achieve by a simple AP in AP bridge mode). It can connect with another AP, wds-slave or device which need wireless service.
OK that makes sense. Of course ap-bridge won’t scan. Thanks.