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Wireless Bridge with CAPsMAN

Thu Mar 01, 2018 5:04 am

I am very familiar with how to do this in the Cisco world and I think because of that I am causing myself more problems with Mikrotik.

I have one hAP AC and a hAP AC Lite connected to each other on the separate sides of my house over Ethernet. I am using CAPsMAN to control the WLANS on each of these devices. I have one WLAN and have CAPsMAN for the roaming benefits. I have one room that gets decent signal on one side but none on the other. This room only needs connectivity to one PC that sits on the other side of the room. I have a spare hAP AC Lite that I would like to configure as a wireless bridge to bridge the wired PC to the wireless network. I would place this device on the side of the room that gets good signal and run a cable to the other side where the PC sits.
The terminology with Mikrotik is a little different than I am used to and I am unable to find a document that describes exactly what I want to do. I have found documents online about doing this with WDS however I dont have WDS enabled on the other AP's (I dont think) and I would rather not rip that config out and rebuild it.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to documentation for this or what this type of config would be called?

In a perfect world I could have the 2 APs wired and the third wireless setup in a mesh so that not only would that PC get access but the Wireless would be extended to that area of the house.
But I understand from other posts that this is not a good idea with Mikrotik. Or am I mistaken?
 
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Re: Wireless Bridge with CAPsMAN

Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:27 am

Set up the hAP AC Lite as a station or station-bridge and add the wlan and ethernet interfaces to the same bridge. This will allow the PC to connect to the wireless network. See https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:W ... tion_Modes
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Re: Wireless Bridge with CAPsMAN

Thu Mar 01, 2018 11:06 am

If you want to, you can create a virtual WLAN interface in ap-bridge mode and add it to the same bridge. This will add AP functionality to the device, but will also incur a performance penalty to the whole wireless network.
 
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Re: Wireless Bridge with CAPsMAN

Tue Oct 23, 2018 3:17 am

If you want to, you can create a virtual WLAN interface in ap-bridge mode and add it to the same bridge. This will add AP functionality to the device, but will also incur a performance penalty to the whole wireless network.
I know the thread is old, but for those who is looking for solution - as of today, @Petri's advise is not possible if you use CAPsMAN (topic of this thread).
From wiki "Master Configuration Profiles -> mode (; Default: ap)" "Set operational mode. Only ap currently supported." (https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CAPsMAN)

That would be nice if Mikrotik mentions it in Limitations section of that Wiki that omits valuable info.
 
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Re: Wireless Bridge with CAPsMAN

Tue Oct 23, 2018 9:33 pm

@iScape: CAPsMAN is intended for controlling APs. My suggestion was to use CAPsMAN to control the two access points in ac bridge mode and configure the station mode hAP AC Lite as a standalone device. I could have been clearer with that, though.
 
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Re: Wireless Bridge with CAPsMAN

Mon May 04, 2020 7:30 pm

@iScape: CAPsMAN is intended for controlling APs. My suggestion was to use CAPsMAN to control the two access points in ac bridge mode and configure the station mode hAP AC Lite as a standalone device. I could have been clearer with that, though.
Sorry, I may have not read it carefuly. Anyway, are you aware of how to config hAP AC Lite if I have rb260gps switch with multiple hosts (connected to hAP AC Lite WAN port) that are expected to use DHCP and be part of the "main" network (and not a single PC like in original post)?

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