Hi.
I have a tower with an omni antenna with Routerboard. I built a new tower with another Routerboard. I connected them (I put a parabola both towers), and I put a sector antenna to the second tower. Each parabola has own Atheros card, and the sector too.
I made a bridge from the interfaces on each tower, but the don't communicate with each other. With external access points work well. I saw the connections in the firewall menu, and I saw connectons from the other antenna, but it doesn't work. Routerboards can't ping each other, and the data don't passing through the system (sector->parabola->parabola->router)
Shouldn't I use bridge or I thinking proxy-arp and other settings, but don't work.
How should I setup a system like this ? Or what whould be the problem ?
(Before I switch to Routerboards, it works well, so I think it's a software configuration error)
Yes, parabolic dish.
I don't know what was the best solution, but I tried bridging, because I don't know any other idea. I don't know what's the difference of transparent bridge, and bridge.
I bridge all interface (WLANs, LANs) of the routers, but it seems the bridges and it's clienst don't communicate.
One router has a client interface to the another. The another has two AP. One for the client, and the other is a sector antenna for multiple clients.
If I see the firewall, I see connections from the clients, but the connection doesn't work, and the routers can't ping each other.
But maybe WDS of EoIP would be better solution, I don't know.
I don't know what was the best solution, but I tried bridging, because I don't know any other idea. I don't know what's the difference of transparent bridge, and bridge.
I bridge all interface (WLANs, LANs) of the routers, but it seems the bridges and it's clienst don't communicate.
One router has a client interface to the another. The another has two AP. One for the client, and the other is a sector antenna for multiple clients.
If I see the firewall, I see connections from the clients, but the connection doesn't work, and the routers can't ping each other.
But maybe WDS of EoIP would be better solution, I don't know.
[SOLVED]
I would refer to the documentation and try WDS between your two routerboards. The client routerboard to your AP won't be able to bridge traffic from the clients on the ethernet do to the limitation of the 802.11 protocol.
If you are running 2.9, on the documentation page, they have a pdf of example configurations, down near the bottom of the pdf is the example of how WDS works.
Dan
If you are running 2.9, on the documentation page, they have a pdf of example configurations, down near the bottom of the pdf is the example of how WDS works.
Dan