What is the best way to bridge two MT’s using the wds option?
and what is the difference if i use mode:bridge with wds dynamic on one side, and mode: wds slave with wds dynamic on the second side (both wds default bridge is the bridge1 and ether interface bound to bridge) V/S using mode:bridge with wds dynamic on one side
and mode:wds-station on the second side (where ether1 and wlan1 interfaces are on the the bridge1).
The first configuration is working properly and im using it on the backhaul, but after browsing MT documentations i found that the second method is more recommended.
Kindly explain the difference between two setups, taking in consideration link performance and throughput capacities, beside the WDS peer frequency change adaptation (case of wds-slave)
wds-station is simply just a station mode (a client) that allows the creation of a transparent wireles-ethernet bridge (which will also adapt to the ap-bridge frequency). wds-slave is an ap-bridge that adapts to another ap-bridge’s frequency,but also allows clients (stations) or other wds-slaves or ap-bridges to connect to it. For PTP, the wds-station is recommended as it’s a"closed" link where nothing else can connect to either side of the link. With a wds-slave on one end, other devices could associate to your wds-slave (as it’s in access point mode). This would be useful if you needed to repeat off one side of the link to another location. I haven’t personally tested bandwidth between these 2 configurations, but I’d imagine they are the same if only using it as a PTP (ie, no other devices connected to the wds-slave).
You can connect wds-slaves to each other too…I haven’t found anything wrong with doing this (yet) but again they are running as access points.
Thnx for the info jarosoup.
I think i ll move to the wds-station settings,for security reasons first, and second i want to use n-streme; and as i know n-streme doesnt operate in wds dynamic v/s wds-slave mode.
Am i mistaken or what?
I don’t think you can use nstreme with wds-slave mode as you can’t use nstreme if both ends are access points. For nstreme, use either bridge or ap-bridge on one end, and station or wds-station on the other (you’ll need wds for the tranparent bridging so I’d go with wds-station). You can still use wds-mode=dynamic with nstreme as long as it’s a wds station (it did try this awhile back).
Thnx again man…
I think this is the best setup i should go with…i have tried it on an implemented link, with an overnight bandwidth test…the result was great, as well as n-streme worked properly.
CheerzZ!