That was Ken's :) Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Oct 22, 2015 9:37 AM, "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 on Josh’s suggestions > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Thursday, October 22, 2015 9:27 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 2 wireless APs on bridged Mikrotik ports > > > > Nope, you already have my suggestion. > > Can you try your idea of a 10s timeout? > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Oct 22, 2015 12:28 AM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are 4 SSIDs. But customer has each device “join” each SSID. I > expected the devices to pick one SSID and stay with it down to 1 bar, but > they seem very fickle. > > > > Or are you saying make all the SSIDs the same? I don’t think it matters, > there are 4 wireless networks, even if they are all named the same. > > > > *From:* Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:03 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 2 wireless APs on bridged Mikrotik ports > > > > 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? >
