What seems to be the major snag is that the client typically releases DHCP
and renews every time it disconnects and reconnects to WIFI.
In my experience, seemless roaming is set up with a static IP. DHCP gave me
about 3 seconds dead time when I swapped. This was with DD-WRT on Linksys
back in 2002ish all the way to current playing with Linux, UBNT, MT and a
little bit of Cisco.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 3:52 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Wifi Roaming
We have a metal building with a number of inside metal walls. Have 3
Mikrotik 2.4ghz wifi access points inside each covering a certain
section. They just act as access points and hook to main router that
hands out DHCP, IPv6, etc. How do I get iphones etc. to seamlessly
roam between these as you walk around the building?
I seem to remember in Mikrotik training years ago they said put them
all on same essid and channel to do this. Not sure if that's right or
I am remembering right. Seems like my ipad refuses to work at times
and I must turn wifi off and back on to restore. I set them all on
different essids and channels now and I am not having much better
luck.
Seemed to have a similar problem at my house even though I only had a
single Mikrotik there. I resolved that mostly by adding a second card
running 5ghz.
Any ideas?
