Hi there
I'm bench testing Metal 52ac radios and have a simple WDS system to test connecting 2 laptops over a series of 3 radios
Here is a crude linear diagram of the network:
Laptop1 -eth- Radio1 ~wds~ Radio2 ~wds~ Radio3 -eth- Laptop2
I use Connect Lists to ensure Radio1 does not connect directly the Radio3 - everything has to hop through Radio2
What I'm finding is as I reboot the radios a few times to test the system, eventually I get into a situation where my pings stop and never recover
The only way to fix the issue is to reconnect the ethernet at one of the laptops
If Winbox into any of the radios, I can Tools/Ping all the IPs on the network no problem however - strange stuff
I run my test environment in a VM to ensure only access to the one NIC
Everything is a flat-IP network
Anyone able to shine some light on this? I'm running Windows and I feel like this might be an issue with how the OS re-ARPs or something and might be a little unrelated to RouterOS/etc
(ie, I'm a noob)
Any help is appreciated!
Here is my config:
/interface mesh
add mesh-portal=yes name=MESH reoptimize-paths=yes
/interface wireless
set [ find default-name=wlan1 ] band=2ghz-onlyn basic-rates-a/g=18Mbps \
basic-rates-b="" default-authentication=no disabled=no distance=1 \
frequency=2472 hide-ssid=yes ht-basic-mcs="" ht-supported-mcs="" \
hw-retries=3 mode=ap-bridge radio-name=RADIO rate-set=configured ssid=\
TEST supported-rates-a/g=18Mbps supported-rates-b="" tx-power=40 \
tx-power-mode=all-rates-fixed wds-default-bridge=MESH wds-mode=dynamic-mesh
/interface ethernet
set [ find default-name=ether1 ] arp-timeout=2s auto-negotiation=no speed=\
10Mbps
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] authentication-types=wpa2-psk eap-methods="" mode=\
dynamic-keys supplicant-identity=MikroTik wpa2-pre-shared-key=\
TESTTESTTEST
/interface mesh port
add interface=wlan1 mesh=MESH
add interface=ether1 mesh=MESH
/interface wireless connect-list
/ip address
add address=10.152.121.2xx/24 interface=MESH network=10.152.121.0 (2xx SET PER RADIO)
/snmp
set enabled=yes
/system leds
set 0 type=on
set 1 interface=ether1 leds=led1 type=interface-activity
add interface=wlan1 leds=led2,led3 type=interface-status
add interface=wlan1 leds=led4 type=interface-activity
/system logging
add topics=interface
add topics=wireless