Wireless scan per API disconnects WLAN clients

RouterOS Scripting
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I am using Routeros 5.12.

When i want to know about other APs, i do a wireless-scan via the Winbox-interface.
For statistic reasons, i want to do that on a regular basis, so i use the API.

Bad luck, because: as soon as i start the Command: /interface/wireless/scan,
the clients are disconnected. Even worse, they can not reconnect, unless i do a Roouter-reboot.

Is there a bugfix or a workaround?

thanks

2

First of - wireless can changes frequency of the card so it can scan all the set channels in scan list, it is not possible to maintain normal AP operation while doing that.

second - you have to stop the scan, when stopped, router will return to settings set up on the interface and continue as an access point.

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Thanks, have reproduced it also with Winbox. As i understand it now, i should not do this on a regular basis like hourly, but no more than 1-2 times a day, on startup.

I thought that the parameter “=duration=10” implies a stop after this time and allows clients to reconnect ?
How would i stop scanning explicitly ?

regards

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duration attribute should end the scan after set duration has expired.

5

I did now:
/interface/wireless/scan duration=10
in one .Send() Command, not in two. That seems to make the difference.
… Continuing my tests…

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it has to be in one sentence, since scan is command and duration is attribute to the scan, same way as =.id= field is attribute so you know on what interface you are exactly scanning.


this is full sentence that will make scan to work for 10 seconds (that is when 5.13 comes out)

/interface/wireleless/scan
=.id=wlan1
=duration=10
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OK, topic solved. Just for interest: is there already a scheduled release date for 5.13?
regards

8

date is not yet scheduled