Sector replace with mANTBox ax 15s

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Hello,
I’m trying to replace AP sector SXT SA5 ac with mANTBox ax 15s
I did copy all configuration same as on AC sector, but stations doesn’t connect
Even tried that useless superchannel, nothing helps
Any thots?

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Can you post your current config please ?
Also indicate what type those station devices are.

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Also state the wireless mode that stations are using (station or station bridge or …).

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Station-bridge, as usual…

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Station-bridge mode is not compatible between the two generations of wireless / wifi drivers (run on either end of the link). Either use straight station (with full routing) or station-pseudobridge (it’s got some drawbacks but if your use case doesn’t trigger them, it should be almost as good as station-bridge).

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That’s probably the most common cause. Also, only straight 802.11 is available on ax, so no nv2 for you :slight_smile:

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OMG, are you serious? :slight_smile:
mkx, what are those drawbacks?

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I know the question is not directed to me, but…

I suspect that this is an isp-like situation, then:

  • If the client device itself is the client router, simple station mode is appropriate
  • If there is a single device behind the client as their router (either provided by you or the client) then station-pseudobridge is appropriate (the problems I suspect mkx refers to is that dhcp is sometimes unreliable is these scenarios and requires a reboot on the wifi client to fix)

If full bridging is needed, I’m afraid that can only be provided by station mode along with an L2 tunnel such as EoIP. This is not the end of the world:

  • This results in increased cpu load. On your end this can be mitigated by terminating the tunnels on a more powerful device such as an rb5009. The client will probably handle the cpu load.
  • Devices can be transferred off of this solution one-by-one as you replace the client devices with ax ones. This you should do anyway to make use of ax features, which should give much better results.

So… a transition like this is a pain, but not unmanageable.

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My situation is that router is connected behind CPE and IP gets by from DHCP
ok I’ll try with pseudobridge.

Thanks for answers.