Why not do 4 SSIDs? Add the profiles once and then done. I think your issue is probably the APs, not the bridge/switch part but it doesn't really help.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Oct 21, 2015 11:59 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a customer who insisted he needed 2 dual band wireless APs 25 feet > apart in his ranch house. So we have a managed non-WiFi Mikrotik RB2011 in > his basement, feeding two Netgear routers in wireless AP mode. I have the > LAN ports bridged rather than using the switch chips, since there's plenty > of CPU power and it gives more visibility into the traffic. > > So counting 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, the customer has 4 SSIDs and I think his > devices like iPads are jumping back and forth between networks. And I > think bad things are happening because the bridging table can't keep track > of which port the clients are on. I see weird things like the same amount > of traffic going out the ports to both wireless APs. I never see a MAC > address on both bridge ports, but it is acting like the Mikrotik is > flooding traffic to both ports. > > Should I be tweaking parameters like reducing the ageing time below the > default 5 minutes? Should I be using the switch chips and not bridging? > > Is this a typical problem when devices can choose between multiple APs > close together on the same bridged LAN? > >
