Hello Dear Mikrotikers,
I finally bite the CAPsMAN pill and made a CAPsMAN setup with:
- rb5009ug+s+ (arm64) as VLANs, CAPsMAN server and Radius server connected to switch
- CRS354-48P-4S+2Q+ as middle man with PoE
- two RBcAPGi-5acD2nD access points powerd by switch
Wifi is configured as WPA2-EAP with Radius on router. It works flawless, I really love the CAPsMAN as command center.
Radius does the job beautiful and the granulation with access to wifi is marvellous.
Sadly I have device that need to be connected to network - but there is no LAN near it and the device itself lacks WiFi module.
It was never a issue to make a wifi brigde before... until I bite the capsman pill... according to mikrotik wiki and tests, Im unable to connect wifi bridge as normal.
I found out that the is "forbidden" apple named pseudobridge/pseudobridge clone.
I'm able to connect to mAP to wifi network via those two methods, and thru LAN to machine, I'm not sure if I got dhcp offer each time (on the machine) I tried but it looked its ok (with small hiccups (ap restart, user manager bind reset))
Each time I did get IP from proper DHCP Server from proper VLAN (which is based on user) I'm unable to ping that machine from any other client, router is being able to ping it, but not clients.
This is printer so its important to being able to ping/connect to.
Now im not sure what is the issue - I tried same mAP with notebook connected thru LAN and it works without issues.
I read that pseudobridge works only with one device (excluding the AP that is connected tru pseudobridge?) so I assume this should work: wifi <--- mAP (thru pseudobride) eth0 ---- printer (tru lan)
I tried to mimic same network setup on my test bench and (without access to the printer) I was able to connect few "dumb" devices to network thru pseudobridge on mAP.
I even tried similar setup on different mikrotik device to check if mAP is working correct but end up with same results - getting IP address from DHCP on printer and not being able to access it thru client device.
- Im unable to add different wifi network because CAPsMAN has already two networks configured
- I'm not allowed to lower WPA2-EAP to anything lower (WPA2-PSK)
- I'm unable to add cable network near the printer
- I'm currently trying to get dedicated wifi module to printer but most of the sellers says its "rare" and out-of-stock most of the times.
- If it the only way I can disable CAPsMAN if there is not other solution
After many hours and few attempts on-site I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or it's impossible in this setup or I'm messing something up with so funky configuration...
So any of you WiFizzards can point me in right direction ?
I finally bite the CAPsMAN pill and made a CAPsMAN setup with:
- rb5009ug+s+ (arm64) as VLANs, CAPsMAN server and Radius server connected to switch
- CRS354-48P-4S+2Q+ as middle man with PoE
- two RBcAPGi-5acD2nD access points powerd by switch
Wifi is configured as WPA2-EAP with Radius on router. It works flawless, I really love the CAPsMAN as command center.
Radius does the job beautiful and the granulation with access to wifi is marvellous.
Sadly I have device that need to be connected to network - but there is no LAN near it and the device itself lacks WiFi module.
It was never a issue to make a wifi brigde before... until I bite the capsman pill... according to mikrotik wiki and tests, Im unable to connect wifi bridge as normal.
I found out that the is "forbidden" apple named pseudobridge/pseudobridge clone.
I'm able to connect to mAP to wifi network via those two methods, and thru LAN to machine, I'm not sure if I got dhcp offer each time (on the machine) I tried but it looked its ok (with small hiccups (ap restart, user manager bind reset))
Each time I did get IP from proper DHCP Server from proper VLAN (which is based on user) I'm unable to ping that machine from any other client, router is being able to ping it, but not clients.
This is printer so its important to being able to ping/connect to.
Now im not sure what is the issue - I tried same mAP with notebook connected thru LAN and it works without issues.
I read that pseudobridge works only with one device (excluding the AP that is connected tru pseudobridge?) so I assume this should work: wifi <--- mAP (thru pseudobride) eth0 ---- printer (tru lan)
I tried to mimic same network setup on my test bench and (without access to the printer) I was able to connect few "dumb" devices to network thru pseudobridge on mAP.
I even tried similar setup on different mikrotik device to check if mAP is working correct but end up with same results - getting IP address from DHCP on printer and not being able to access it thru client device.
- Im unable to add different wifi network because CAPsMAN has already two networks configured
- I'm not allowed to lower WPA2-EAP to anything lower (WPA2-PSK)
- I'm unable to add cable network near the printer
- I'm currently trying to get dedicated wifi module to printer but most of the sellers says its "rare" and out-of-stock most of the times.
- If it the only way I can disable CAPsMAN if there is not other solution
After many hours and few attempts on-site I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or it's impossible in this setup or I'm messing something up with so funky configuration...
So any of you WiFizzards can point me in right direction ?
Statistics: Posted by EternalNet — Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:48 pm