Has anyone successfully done vlan trunking/tagging over wlan or wds interfaces? I wanna carry a bunch of vlans through an all bridged mikrotik wlan backbone. Some accesspoints require that they also get an IP address on this VLAN. Any clues or hints appreciated. (EoIP not what im looking for.)

_// Sten

I just finished a project with MT as "Router on a stick" for Vlans. Worked great. I have 25 Vlans and 25 subnets and they all work great. My question to you is how are you doing the bridging? It looks like your able to create the Vlans and associate them to the wlan cards. Just not sure how it would function.

... My question to you is how are you doing the bridging? It looks like your able to create the Vlans and associate them to the wlan cards. Just not sure how it would function.

Thats my point, i havent been able to do it. In my opinion the VLAN interfaces should be bound to WDS interfaces but that is not an option according to winbox. I've sent mail about this issue to support@mikrotik.com or /dev/null, either recipient has the same effect.

... My question to you is how are you doing the bridging? It looks like your able to create the Vlans and associate them to the wlan cards. Just not sure how it would function.

Thats my point, i havent been able to do it. In my opinion the VLAN interfaces should be bound to WDS interfaces but that is not an option according to winbox. I've sent mail about this issue to support@mikrotik.com or /dev/null, either recipient has the same effect.

I haven't done this, but if you add bridge and then add vlan interface and coresponding to this vlan wds interface as ports ? And then repeat for every Vlan/WDS that you need ?

I haven't done this, but if you add bridge and then add vlan interface and coresponding to this vlan wds interface as ports ? And then repeat for every Vlan/WDS that you need ?

Are you suggesting adding more WDS interfaces to one host, how is that possible? I've thought about it but when i tried to add more WDS interfaces pointing towards the same MAC address winbox complained.
If that works i would be more than happy to use this solution.

_// Sten Daniel Sørsdal

Are you suggesting adding more WDS interfaces to one host, how is that possible? I've thought about it but when i tried to add more WDS interfaces pointing towards the same MAC address winbox complained.
If that works i would be more than happy to use this solution.

_// Sten Daniel Sørsdal

No, my suggestiion was only for root ap-bridge as a endpoint of Vlan's transport in star WDS topology. But maybe i am wrong , because packets will be taged at VLAN interface and untaged at Wds interface.

All,

I need a wds design - sounds like maybe a few of you have done this succesfully.

I have a Routerboard 230 with 3 radios and 3 9 dBi 120 degree antennas. It has hotspot working and is natting. I added a wds interface and bound it to one of the radios. I want to add a wds-slave about 600 feet away so I built another routerboard 230 with one radio and 1 120 degree antenna. I have the 2 antennas that are pointed at each other. I want to bridge all access traffic to the main AP (with 3 radios) and have them use the hotspot already built on the main AP. What else needs to be done?

1) If I enable wds on the remote wds-slave - will clients still be able to access the hotspot off the romote AP and the main AP (as before)?

2) do I bridge the wireless card to the wds interface ?

3) do ineed to route anything for wds to work or will bridging be enough?

4) Is there any reason to have an IP address on the remote wds-slave AP other than for management?

5) Any recommendations on the easiest way to do this?

I do not want to have to set up multiple subnets and multiple hotspots if I can avoid it.

Thanks,

Jerry

Hello support@mikrotik.com,

Based on This - http://www.mt.lv/Documentation/HowTo.html#How_wdsbridge

1) can I have clients connect to [Main-AP]?