Below is the port config I use to connect switch A to switch B. I am trying to remove the wire connection and use the Mikrotik devices between the two switches as a wireless wire connection. When I plugged them into the Cisco switch port the port would go into suspended mode.
Why do we care about Cisco annotation?
State the requirements without mention of Crisco.
AKA. I have group of user/device or single users/devices that need to do X,Y but not Z.
Or I have 10 vlans that need to traverse from switch A to switch B through a MT device.
Further your network diagram is horrible. And Badly needed!!! to have context on where main router is, where internet is etc…
Assuming you have two MT devices (which model is also missing information), and each will wire into one of the Crisco and communicate wirelessly between them.
Thus you need to know how to setup the devices to send VLANs back and forth.
An additional question, is this a one way control path, IE MASTER ROUTER to switch1 through WIFI link to switch2?
In other words will the admin config switch 2, through this connection?? Are the vlans and dhcp configured on the MASTER ROUTER… etc…
@bpwl for this thread…
For a wireless wire type connection between two switches, I am presuming there is not much different on the
mechanics of the configuration in terms of passing VLANS and trusted subnet etc… but I wonder what mode and submodes…
Its not one flat network being passed but lets say X number of vlans and possiby VOIP traffic to make it interesting.
MODE QUICKSET:
—> ptp CPE at one device (connected to main router) and ptp AP at the other switch
OR
—> Wisp AP at both.
Since i have no clue on the difference between Station Mode and AP mode, its not clear how to proceed.
Bridge Mode = Access Point Wifi that will only associate with one client.
Station Mode = Client Wifi that will only associate with any acceptable AP
WDS Slave Mode = Access Point Wifi like AP bridge, scans for same SSID on clients and uses WDS link.
Station WDS = Same as Station but creates proprietary WDS link to AP
WIFI WIRELESS MODES:
bridge at switch1 & station at switch 2 (limits connectivity to one client for the AP - hopefully via SSID?)
OR
WDS Slave at switch 1 & Station WDS at switch2
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ignoring Station Bridge (mode) as its not understood and hopefully not needed.
Unfortunately, wireless bridges are usually far from transparent w.r.t. VLAN traffic. I have had lots of issues with that.
(but no experience with the “wireless wire”)
Show the config of the wireless wire, especially the bridge, ethernet and wireless interfaces.
From BPWL:
So combining 2 switches with a wifi link: use “AP bridge” (or “bridge” for a licence level 3) mode on one side , and use “Station bridge” on the other side of the wifi link.
The chain is : ‘switch’ - ether - ROS bridge -WLAN “AP bridge” - WLAN “station bridge” - ROS bridge - ether - ‘switch2’.
I wonder how well that was tested… I have experience with link equipment from the competitor and while initially it seems that VLANs pass over the link unmodified, actually it maintains some form of proxy arp table which gets confused when two VLANs transport the same IP space.
I would not be surprised when there are similar issues with the Wireless Wire, as these seem to be embedded in the 802.11 protocol.
Mikrotik wAP 60G AP, RBwAPG-60ad-A at each end. Attached is a PDF of config screenshots.
To setup I connected a PC and both APs to a hub. Once the bridge looked configured and connected. I plugged it into the network. The master bridge side suspends the cisco switchport.
Bridge config process
I reset each devices config to no default config
Created a bridge
Assigned ip address to bridge in the management vlan ip range
Config wireless: CPE is set to station bridge mode, master is set to bridge mode (only difference for each device setup besides ip address)
Once I did this the devices connected. I unplugged from hub and connected to switches on production LAN. Master bridge device suspended port on lan switch.
Network Info
DHCP is handled by a Windows DHCP server. There are several VLANS. Router points clients to server using ip helper-address.
Project
Install network in a remote location a couple hundred feet away from an IDF - security cameras and wireless APs. Mikrotik Bridge Configuration.pdf (187 KB)
Please use /export hide-sensitive file=name to put config in a file and put that in a </> section here.
Screenshots often do not include essential information.
E.g. how is the STP setup on your bridges? Try setting it to “none”.
STP was set to RSTP. Now it’s set to none. This still suspends the switchport. Configs of each device attached. masterConfig.rsc (578 Bytes) slaveConfig.rsc (658 Bytes)
Switch log
Mar 18 11:07:47.807: %ILPOWER-7-DETECT: Interface Gi1/0/16: Power Device detected: IEEE PD
Mar 18 11:07:48.845: %ILPOWER-5-POWER_GRANTED: Interface Gi1/0/16: Power granted
Mar 18 11:07:55.064: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface GigabitEthernet1/0/16, changed state to up
Mar 18 11:08:04.263: %EC-5-L3DONTBNDL2: Gi1/0/16 suspended: LACP currently not enabled on the remote port.
When I removed the channel-group from the switchport the port enabled. I also removed the channel-group from the remote switchport. I cannot ping the bridge master, bridge slave, or remote switch.
Configs now look like this.
SWITCH A
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/16
description *** Uplink to Switch A ***
switchport access vlan 10
switchport mode trunk
spanning-tree portfast trunk
ip dhcp snooping trust
end
SWITCH B
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/23
description *** Uplink to Switch B ***
switchport mode trunk
spanning-tree portfast trunk
ip dhcp snooping trust
Well, when the config (.rsc files) you posted earlier was indeed the full config of the devices, that is not surprising.
Or was this only a selective part cut and paste from the real config file?
When not, you need to reset the devices to defaults as also mentioned by tdw. The config is incomplete (no bridge ports, for example).
I added an ether and wlan port to each device. Attached are updated configs. What do I need to make this a transparent wireless wire config? slaveBridge.rsc (756 Bytes) masterBridge.rsc (754 Bytes)
Ok in that case you should be able to use the Quick Set “default config generator” by selecting “PTP bridge AP” in one unit and “PTP bridge CPE” in the other, that
should at least setup the proper wireless and bridge settings. You will have to specify the way you want to assign an IP address to the devices (DHCP, static),
and set the password (both the admin password and the WiFi WPA2 password). Other than that, there should not be much to setup, only watch that it
does not apply an overly restrictive firewall (allowing access to the management interface only from ethernet, for example).
While tinkering with this, make sure you use winbox and connect via MAC, not via IP, because that makes you lose the connection every time you reset the
configuration and changing something in the IP setup.
I presume you now have the two units side by side in an office, and the switches as well.
And Badly needed!!! to have context on where main router is, where internet is etc…