agreed smartphones seem to think they are smarter than us....and for those
of us that write in several languages its worse.....pinchi telefono chafa

Jaime Solorza
Wireless Systems Architect
915-861-1390

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> Usually you can decipher what was intended before mangling by auto
> correct, but “Bethesda” has me stumped.
>
> *From:* Lewis Bergman <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 22, 2015 8:55 AM
> *To:* Animal Farm <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 2 wireless APs on bridged Mikrotik ports
>
> OK. That auto correct is just pitiful. I am really going to have to stop
> sending mail to this list on my phone. I am obviously not qualified to do
> so.
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Paul McCall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Having not Used UniFi, does it do a clean job of this?  …. Switching
>> between APs as needed and keeping it all straight MAC table wise?
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Lewis Bergman
>> *Sent:* Thursday, October 22, 2015 9:41 AM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 2 wireless APs on bridged Mikrotik ports
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry Ken. I summer you don't have 2 Bethesda in house to set it up in a
>> lab. I would think shortening the time is your best bet. Now how short....
>> No idea. ARP traffic is tiny so I can't imagine that causing an issue.
>> Maybe a cpu issue on all sides trying to keep up with them?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015, 8:38 AM Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>
>
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