WDS and mesh

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hello,

i have issues with WDS and mesh. Before i post any configs, i want to ask a general question…

So, four ap-bridges (each has one 2,4G interface) are fully meshed over their wireless interfaces.
Two of these accesspoints have ethernet-uplinks (on one side are servers, the other side the internet),
the eth (masters) on each ap are ports of a software bridge and the software bridge is a port in a
mesh interface. The wds is working great and works by using virtual accesspoints that are configured with
wds-mode=static-mesh. The wds interfaces are ports of the mesh bridge too.

But now the question: I want to connect with clients to the master wireless interface… IS that a supported
configuration? An Android cell phone does not connect at all, a Thinkpad connects but gets no
IP from DHCP, no data is transmitted over the link. In my tests i had the master interface as port
in the software-bridge and as port in the mesh-bridge too, but without success… What’s the mistake?

ROS is 6.36, wireless-rep

Thanks
Björn

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Okay, this is the wireless config.. What do i have to configure to make connections to ssid “clients”
working?

[root@Router] /interface wireless> pr
Flags: X - disabled, R - running 
 0  R ;;; WIRELESS MASTER
      name="master" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1600 mac-address=E4:8D:8C:50:BB:95 arp=enabled interface-type=Atheros AR9300 mode=ap-bridge ssid="clients" frequency=2432 band=2ghz-onlyn 
      channel-width=20/40mhz-eC scan-list=default wireless-protocol=802.11 vlan-mode=no-tag vlan-id=1 wds-mode=disabled wds-default-bridge=none wds-ignore-ssid=yes 
      bridge-mode=disabled default-authentication=yes default-forwarding=yes default-ap-tx-limit=0 default-client-tx-limit=0 hide-ssid=yes security-profile=clients compression=no 

 1  R name="vap-WDS-UPLINK" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1600 mac-address=E6:8D:8C:50:BB:94 arp=enabled interface-type=virtual master-interface=master mode=ap-bridge ssid="WDS-UPLINK" vlan-mode=no-tag 
      vlan-id=1 wds-mode=dynamic-mesh wds-default-bridge=mesh-bridge wds-ignore-ssid=no bridge-mode=disabled default-authentication=no default-forwarding=no 
      default-ap-tx-limit=0 default-client-tx-limit=0 hide-ssid=yes security-profile=WDS-UPLINK 

[root@Router] /interface mesh> po pr
Flags: X - disabled, I - inactive, D - dynamic 
 #    INTERFACE		MESH                                                                               
 0    bridge-intern	mesh-bridge                                                                                                                                     
 1    master		mesh-bridge
 2  D wds29		mesh-bridge                                                                        
 3  D wds51		mesh-bridge                                                                        
 4  D wds54		mesh-bridge                                                                        

[root@NDLNR009] /interface wireless security-profiles> pr
Flags: * - default 
 0 * name="default" mode=dynamic-keys authentication-types=wpa-psk,wpa2-psk unicast-ciphers=aes-ccm group-ciphers=aes-ccm wpa-pre-shared-key="12345678" 
     wpa2-pre-shared-key="12345678" supplicant-identity="Router" eap-methods=passthrough tls-mode=no-certificates tls-certificate=none mschapv2-username="" 
     mschapv2-password="" static-algo-0=none static-key-0="" static-algo-1=none static-key-1="" static-algo-2=none static-key-2="" static-algo-3=none static-key-3="" 
     static-transmit-key=key-0 static-sta-private-algo=none static-sta-private-key="" radius-mac-authentication=no radius-mac-accounting=no radius-eap-accounting=no 
     interim-update=0s radius-mac-format=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX radius-mac-mode=as-username radius-mac-caching=disabled group-key-update=5m management-protection=disabled 
     management-protection-key="" 
 1   name="clients" mode=dynamic-keys authentication-types=wpa2-psk unicast-ciphers=aes-ccm group-ciphers=aes-ccm wpa-pre-shared-key="" wpa2-pre-shared-key="12345678" 
     supplicant-identity="Router" eap-methods=passthrough tls-mode=no-certificates tls-certificate=none mschapv2-username="" mschapv2-password="" static-algo-0=none 
     static-key-0="" static-algo-1=none static-key-1="" static-algo-2=none static-key-2="" static-algo-3=none static-key-3="" static-transmit-key=key-0 
     static-sta-private-algo=none static-sta-private-key="" radius-mac-authentication=no radius-mac-accounting=no radius-eap-accounting=no interim-update=0s 
     radius-mac-format=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX radius-mac-mode=as-username radius-mac-caching=disabled group-key-update=5m management-protection=allowed management-protection-key="" 
 2   name="WDS-UPLINK" mode=dynamic-keys authentication-types=wpa2-psk unicast-ciphers=aes-ccm group-ciphers=aes-ccm wpa-pre-shared-key="" wpa2-pre-shared-key="12345678" 
     supplicant-identity="Router" eap-methods=passthrough tls-mode=no-certificates tls-certificate=none mschapv2-username="" mschapv2-password="" static-algo-0=none 
     static-key-0="" static-algo-1=none static-key-1="" static-algo-2=none static-key-2="" static-algo-3=none static-key-3="" static-transmit-key=key-0 
     static-sta-private-algo=none static-sta-private-key="" radius-mac-authentication=no radius-mac-accounting=no radius-eap-accounting=no interim-update=0s 
     radius-mac-format=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX radius-mac-mode=as-username radius-mac-caching=disabled group-key-update=5m management-protection=required 
     management-protection-key="12345678"
     
[root@Router] /ip dhcp-server> pr
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid 
 #   NAME		INTERFACE	RELAY           ADDRESS-POOL	LEASE-TIME ADD-ARP
 0   intern-dhcp	mesh-bridge	intern-pool	10m
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I was getting same problem but after resetting all parameters it has fixed now!