My plan is to create a backbone on 5ghz and then 2.4ghz to the clients.

Not all of the tower locations can see the primary 5ghz access point but they can see the other 5ghz relays.

Is there away to set them up without having to install separate 5ghz ap links at each relay to the new site?

Would this be the WDS mode or something?

-Michael

Yes sir that woud do it.

So lets say I have

rb-1 ---> rb-2 ---> rb-3 ---rb-4. Line of site to only one other rb. Example rb-4 can only see rb-3.

What do i do set them all to wds-station mode?

maybe something like this. http://www.mikrotik.com/Documentation/rosmE.pdf

Scroll down to "Wireless Configuration Examples" and take a look at "Wireless WDS Repeater or Point to Point Link"

Dan

Dont go thw WDS route. Take advantage of the fact that MT is a RouterOS. Set up OSPF! Works great and less overhead.

scurtis,

While I just read the Mikrotik definition of OSPF and I have been aware of the concept but have not had any practle experance with it. I'm use to bridging, routing, and setting up radius,ppoe clients.

Could you give an example of how to setup such a connection?

Lets say you have four stations, starting with 192.168.1.1 to .5

Each of the units having both 802.11a card for backbone relay and a 11b card for clients.

.1 being the starting system that is connected to your land line connection through ethernet.

.2 being a mountain top

.3 beign able to see both the mountain top .2 system and .1 system.

.4 only being able to see .2

.5 only seeing .4

This would be a very good real life example that I think many others that currently use wds would like to see an alternitive way of doing such a setup.

mperdue:

It is a simple solution that works well. USing your example

192.168.1.1 MT I assume is the core router. under /ip/routing/ospf set this router's ID to 10.10.10.1 and distribute as type one and redistribute default route. Create an area of 0.0.0.0

then go to .2 and set up an ID of 10.10.10.2 and place this router in the area 0.0.0.0. Redistribute as type 1 but DONOT redestribute default routes.

do the same for the other routers. Make sure to reboot core then each neighbor in logical order and watch the dynamic routing work.

As far as limiting visibility within your your network, that would be another discussion.

Good luck

Why is it important to reboot routers in order? Surely the OSPF will sort its self out, using 192.168.1.1 (10.10.10.1) as the default route for the whole network?

Thanks