Hi I’ve this problem,
I would like to connect the two AP RB433s to the two AP routers trought the switch so as to define two gateway, if one of these not be available.
After several hours of work 2 / 3 maximum, the switch stop working and the whole network is down.
If I detach the power supply to the whole network and reboot the devices, the network still works fine for a few hours then all down. I checked the swicth and it works well, I think the problem may depend on other things.
If I separate the two networks by excluding the switch everything works fine.
For my tests I use a small 5 ports 10/100 switch, the problem could be the switch throughput?
Thanks Cetalfio
Hi Cetalfio,
Just to check, have you used the switch between one set for a trial?
To start off, if you would please show me from the 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3 boxes:
/ip address print
and
/ip route print
That might help me see how things are set up.
Hi,
I forgot to say that routers 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3 are DSL routers, I have updated the schema.
first AP
/ip address print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
ADDRESS NETWORK BROADCAST INTERFACE
0 192.168.1.100/24 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.255 bridge1
/ip route print
DST-ADDRESS PREF-SRC GATEWAY-STATE GATEWAY DISTANCE INTERFACE
0 A S 0.0.0.0/0 reachable 192.168.1.2 1 bridge1
1 ADC 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.100 0 bridge1
second AP
/ip address print
ADDRESS NETWORK BROADCAST INTERFACE
0 192.168.1.10/24 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.255 bridge1
/ip route print
DST-ADDRESS PREF-SRC GATEWAY-STATE GATEWAY DISTANCE INTERFACE
0 A S 0.0.0.0/0 reachable 192.168.1.3 1 bridge1
1 ADC 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.10 0 bridge1
It looks like the network may have challenges figuring out which of those APs the client is connected to, since they are the same subnet. How do the clients on each of those APs get their ips? What ip range is being issued?
ADD: I would split those APs into two networks. Remove the bridges, and assign each AP its own ip subnet. with dhcp server, then route from there. If that is not possible, let me know why. If the only reason is you are not sure how to do it, I will help you with that.
Thanks SurferTim for your support,
but I don’t think that the problem is network configuration.
The AP clients have this configuration:
Clients have static IP for interfaces and have masquaraded wlan1 with /ip firewall nat
I prefer this schema to manage, report and monitor my network.
I would like to know if it is wrong or if it creates a problem if I put two DSL router with two different IP addresses
connected to the same switch.
I’m thinking that this is the real problem.
Some ideas?
Maybe I am wrong, but what difference would it make about the modems as long as they are not the same ip? I have several dozen computers connected to my localnet with the same localnet mask and different ips. They all get the right stuff. If your net is set up correctly, it should be able to route all that. The gateways will be different for each internet connection. One will be 192.168.1.2 (modem1) and the other 192.168.1.3 (modem2).
On the INBOUND interfaces, you have not told them where to connect to all ips. For example, if you had an ip of 192.168.1.122, which interface would the modem send the response to? The left AP, or the right AP? 50% of the time, it will be correct. What about the other 50%?
EDIT: Actually, it would not forward any 192.168.1.x address anywhere by default. It would expect that ip to be local, not behind another interface.