I have 2 WDS networks at 2 different locations, connected by PTP Qbridge setups, each haveing 2 AP’s (one soon to be 5 AP’s) and for some reason Winbox reports the IP of the 2 in one location as the same. It shows the different mac’s however and I can connect to both just fine with the mac. I always connect to the same one with the IP, regardless of which one I click in the drop down box. I have confirmed that the IP showing belongs to the bridge/wds on one AP, but the other has 3 completly different addresses (lan, wlan and bridge/wds). It isn’t causing an issue right now, as far as I can tell, but I want to make sure this doesn’t turn in to a loop or routing problem. On a similar note, I also have 3 sets of Qbridges which don’t always show up with the discovery tool. Sometimes I get all the devices, sometimes I get a couple and sometimes none. Usually discovering a couple times in a row eventually shows all of them. Its the same with Winbox too. I am using all static IP addresses with one main router at the satellite uplink and use static on all clients and AP’s and use the internal IP of the router as the gateway. Also, this doesn’t seem to affect routing to the internet as I keep a rock steady internet connection and never have timeout etc when I am seeing this strange behavior.
Also, I just discovered that I can’t disable ethernet 2. I originally had it setup as a port on the wds bridge, but changed it to ethernet 1, deleted the ip address for ethernet 2 and disabled it. Once I click disable, I lose connection to the AP and after about 20 seconds can connect again only to see that ethernet 2 is re-enabled again..weird. I see also that one AP in each WDS location was set to rstp and the other to stp. I changed them all to stp. Should they all have the exact same settings under stp?
Thanks for any input.
John