I’ve know a little about Routers and Networks for years but I feel like this Router has me confused on the setup.
Backstory: I had an OnHub by Google as my router that went to a Ruckus 10-port switch. That Ruckus switch hardwired to 2 WAPs (Ruckus r510’s) as well as several wall outlets. All of my WAP’s and devices worked great but I wanted to upgrade my Router as OnHub was being retired. I picked up the MikroTik hEX S Gigabit Ethernet Router with SFP Port (RB760iGS).
I swap them out and that is when the “fun” began.
The TV in my office using Wifi for streaming needs to re-setup the Wifi Network every time I turn on the TV. This never happened with the OnHub. I even extended the lease to 24 hours.
Wifi connections will randomly drop and then come back. Firmware’s updated on all of the devices. I will have full bars, just no internet for 30 seconds and then it comes back.
When I type in the IP address (which is listed in the DHCP Server) of my Octoprint Raspberry Pi, it can’t find it. It worked fine and was accessible with the OnHub.
As mentioned, I extended the leases to 24 hours (would prefer never but can’t find that option).
Lastly, while trying to figure it out I Click on IP, then go to DHCP Server, then click on the IP Address for one of the two WAPs and the Status says Conflict. No clue what that means or if that is part of my problem.
I am assuming it’s a config issue on my part, anyone have any ideas?
I’m no expert, but it sounds like you have two separate WiFi networks using the same SSID. Are you sure your WAPs have identical configuration? This would explain issues one and two.
Did you eliminate the Ruckus switch and plug everything into the RB760iGS? Is the Raspberry Pi wired or wireless?
I’m sure someone will have more expert advice, but I hope those hints help in the meantime.
I appreciate the response back. I only have 1 wifi network that is support by the two WAPs (one for each floor of my house). I also need the Ruckus Switch because I need it to share the signal to the rest of the house via hardlines. So the config looks like this:
Cable Modem > RB760iGS > Ruckus Switch > WAP 1, WAP 2, and several wall sockets
The Raspberry Pi is wireless. With the OnHub, I could type the IP into my browser and it would take me to Octoprint running on the Pi. Now I can see the Pi in the DHCP Server but via a browser it says not found.
So really two issues. The first being the random Wifi drops & my wireless devices like my TV needing to re-setup the wireless network every time I use it.
The second issue is not finding the Raspberry Pi.
So do I just set store-lease-disk = 168h (for a 7 day lease) in the Terminal? Or add that line in? Sorry, not familiar with how to do that.. was hoping it was a setting. Also, do I need to extend the bridge lease to match the store-lease-disk? Thank you for taking the time to look at this.
Sorry, the Ruckus 10 port switch is full with 1 port filled from the Mik, 2 ports filled with hard lines to the two WAP’s and the other 7 are filled with hard lines out to wall sockets as shown in my network diagram link https://imgur.com/a/qCUmE73
I am not sure but it does look like there is some Heartbeat Loss stuff in the logs of the WAPs that are talked about in the Ruckus community. I will keep searching. Thanks Buckeye for helping out!
I will be surprised if this makes a difference, but you could try forcing the dhcp server to always use broadcasts. That’s generally not the best, but in a small network you probably won’t notice a difference. There are some devices that periodically poll to verify that devices are still there, and these normally use unicast, which is a better network citizen. And it may not work with some other devices, (so it is possible that it could fix one problem, but cause another). For example see this old thread DHCP - Lease - Option “Always Broadcast”, what is the purpose?. In v7.8 on my hEX S the checkbox is at the bottom in WinBox.
/ip dhcp-server
add address-pool=default-dhcp always-broadcast=yes client-mac-limit=0
interface=BR-SW lease-time=1d name=defconf
There is also a checkbox at the bottom of the ip dhcp server window in WinBox (if you can figure out how to get to the screen).
That was my lab router, not the OPs. And there isn’t anything connected to ether5 at the moment.
I was just showing the OP where the “Always Broadcast” was in newer versions of WinBox/ROS than the picture in the link to another thread I posted.
