Maybe I should state the question more generically. 1) Should I be changing the ageing time on the Mikrotik bridge from 5 minutes to much shorter like 10 seconds? Is this one of those parameters that should be tweaked?
2) Would the switch chips handle this better than the software bridge? Mikrotik RB2011 ETH2 ----- Netgear WAP1 w/SSID1 ETH3 ----- Netgear WAP2 w/SSID2 Mikrotik does DHCP, Netgears do WiFi and also provide 4 Ethernet ports From: That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 12:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 2 wireless APs on bridged Mikrotik ports not to be the dick, but why are you involved in this? Did you provide the two routers? If you did (this is the super dick part) why didnt you use the right product for the job? Have you looked in the netgears to see if they have any magician software for a scenario like this? Sometimes these consumer garbage cans have some crazy advanced features in their utility packages. or even something like a dd-wrt load you can do something with. Maybe you can do some magicsauce like setting the mac on the wireless interface of the routers the same and see what happens, or stab the guy in his eyesocket, thats alot of consumer wifi in such a small area to not stab him. On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Sean Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: This sounds like a good situation for a unifi system. -Sean On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 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? -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
