I have experimented with the align monitor audio. I have found that the audio can only be heard on the bridge routerboard and not on the client routerboard. Is this normal or do I have something misconfigured?
did you set both sides to “mode=alignment-only” also check and make sure that the mac’s are right on both sides. it should work I have used it for most of my back hauls
According to the documentation, whenever you enter the “interface wireless align monitor” command, the interface will automatically go into the alignment-only mode. I will try it to make sure, however.
I have always had to set the mode on both sides for the audio to work right!
I guess I have a bad board because when I set both boards to alignment-only, only one makes the audible sound…the other is silent.
you can test the beeper on the board to see if it is bad interface wireless align test-audio
I tried the above procedure and the buzzer does seem to work. It is apparently a problem with the OS or possibly some obscure setting. Any Ideas?
you can either post the settings for both sides here or email me with what they are and I will see if I see anything out of place.
Thanks Floyd but before I send you the info, could there be a relation between this problem and the one I have posted in another thread named ACCESS-LIST. The routerboard with the audio problem is the same one that will not all me to set the Authentication to NO in the Wlan interface. What do you think?
try setting the defalt-auth to yes and see if that helps. if not use this just put the differant mac’s in for the resective sides.
interface wireless align> print
frame-size: 300
active-mode: yes
receive-all: yes
audio-monitor: 00:00:00:00:00:00
filter-mac: 00:00:00:00:00:00
ssid-all: yes
frames-per-second: 25
audio-min: -100
audio-max: -20
you need to put the mac’s in both the audio-monitor and the filter-mac fields!
No luck. I will get all the settings together and post them for both routerboards. Thanks
Here are the configurations for the two routerboards discussed above. You will notice that align monitor does not show any link at all on the station unit…it appears that the station does not see the bridge unit but the bridge unit sees the station unit.
This is the unit that will not make the sound…it is the one used as the station.
[admin@MikroTik] interface wireless> print
Flags: X - disabled, R - running
0 name=“wlan1” mtu=1500 mac-address=00:01:24:70:4E:71 arp=enabled
disable-running-check=no interface-type=Atheros AR5211
mode=alignment-only ssid=“WacoolBridge1” frequency=5180 band=5GHz
scan-list=default-ism supported-rates-b=1Mbps,2Mbps,5.5Mbps,11Mbps
supported-rates-a/g=6Mbps,9Mbps,12Mbps,18Mbps,24Mbps,36Mbps,48Mbps,
54Mbps
basic-rates-b=1Mbps basic-rates-a/g=6Mbps max-station-count=2007
ack-timeout=dynamic tx-power=default noise-floor-threshold=default
burst-time=disabled fast-frames=no dfs-mode=none antenna-mode=ant-a
wds-mode=disabled wds-default-bridge=none wds-ignore-ssid=no
default-authentication=yes default-forwarding=yes hide-ssid=no
802.1x-mode=none
[admin@MikroTik] interface wireless access-list> print
Flags: X - disabled
0 mac-address=00:01:24:70:4F:60 interface=wlan1 authentication=yes
forwarding=yes skip-802.1x=no private-algo=none private-key=“”
[admin@MikroTik] interface wireless align> print
frame-size: 300
active-mode: yes
receive-all: yes
audio-monitor: 00:01:24:70:4F:60
filter-mac: 00:01:24:70:4F:60
ssid-all: yes
frames-per-second: 25
audio-min: -100
audio-max: -20
[admin@MikroTik] interface wireless align> monitor
interface: wlan1
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
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This unit seems to work fine and is configured to be the bridge radio
[admin@MikroTik] interface wireless> print
Flags: X - disabled, R - running
0 name=“wlan1” mtu=1500 mac-address=00:01:24:70:4F:6D arp=enabled
disable-running-check=no interface-type=Atheros AR5211
mode=alignment-only ssid=“WacoolBridge1” frequency=5180 band=5GHz
scan-list=default-ism supported-rates-b=1Mbps,2Mbps,5.5Mbps,11Mbps
supported-rates-a/g=6Mbps,9Mbps,12Mbps,18Mbps,24Mbps,36Mbps,48Mbps,
54Mbps
basic-rates-b=1Mbps basic-rates-a/g=6Mbps max-station-count=2007
ack-timeout=dynamic tx-power=default noise-floor-threshold=default
burst-time=disabled fast-frames=no dfs-mode=none antenna-mode=ant-a
wds-mode=disabled wds-default-bridge=none wds-ignore-ssid=no
default-authentication=no default-forwarding=yes hide-ssid=no
802.1x-mode=none
[admin@MikroTik] interface wireless> access-list
print
Flags: X - disabled
0 mac-address=00:01:24:70:4E:71 interface=wlan1 authentication=yes
forwarding=yes skip-802.1x=yes private-algo=none private-key=“”
[admin@MikroTik] interface wireless align> print
frame-size: 300
active-mode: yes
receive-all: no
audio-monitor: 00:01:24:70:4E:71
filter-mac: 00:01:24:70:4E:71
ssid-all: no
frames-per-second: 25
audio-min: -100
audio-max: -30
[admin@MikroTik] interface wireless> align monitor
interface: wlan1
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
00:01:24:70:4E:71 WacoolBridge1 -52 -52 0.02 99 %
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
00:01:24:70:4E:71 WacoolBridge1 -54 -53 0.03 100 %
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
00:01:24:70:4E:71 WacoolBridge1 -54 -55 0.04 100 %
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
00:01:24:70:4E:71 WacoolBridge1 -55 -55 0.01 100 %
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
00:01:24:70:4E:71 WacoolBridge1 -55 -55 0.02 84 %
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
00:01:24:70:4E:71 WacoolBridge1 -55 -55 0.03 100 %
ADDRESS SSID RXQ AVG-RXQ LAST-RX TXQ LAST-TX CORRECT
00:01:24:70:4E:71 WacoolBridge1 -57 -57 0.04 100 %
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you have a typo in the one that doesnt work. you have 00:01:24:70:4F:60 and the 0 at the end should be a “D” 00:01:24:70:4F:6D. change that and everythng should be happy!
this may be the same problem! hope this helps
I bet I looked at that “D” 100 times and saw a “0”. Boy, do I feel stupid. It fixed both problems. Thanks for the trouble.