[afnog] MikroTik Router Wireless

John Tully tully at mikrotik.com
Wed Jul 13 10:38:55 EAT 2005


The running flag for the wireless AP will only show 'R' when at least one 
station is connected.

John


>On Tuesday 12 July 2005 11:59, you wrote:
> > > I have now changed the mode from station to ap-bridge and the
> > > band from 5GHz to 2.4GHz. The IP addresses of the interfaces
> > > are the same.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I still do not detect any wireless connections arround.
> > > Any other suggestions please?
> >
> > Hmm, I don't understand, changing from station should have sorted you
> > out, -tried the usual restarting stuff?- aanyway please send the
> > following output:
> >
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > /interface print
>[admin at MikroTik] interface> print
>Flags: X - disabled, D - dynamic, R - running
>  #    NAME            TYPE             RX-RATE    TX-RATE    MTU
>  0  R ether1          ether            0          0          1500
>  1  R ether2          ether            0          0          1500
>  2  R ether3          ether            0          0          1500
>  3    wlan1           wlan             0          0          1500
>  4    wlan2           wlan             0          0          1500
>[admin at MikroTik] interface>
>
>
> > /ip address print
>[admin at MikroTik] interface> /ip address print
>Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
>  #   ADDRESS            NETWORK         BROADCAST       INTERFACE
>  0 X 192.168.0.1/24     192.168.0.0     192.168.0.255   wlan1
>  1   192.168.1.1/24     192.168.1.0     192.168.1.255   wlan2
>  2 X 10.1.0.1/24        10.1.0.0        10.1.0.255      ether1
>  3   10.1.1.1/24        10.1.1.0        10.1.1.255      ether3
>  4 X ;;; MikroTik test at home
>      10.1.254.27/24     10.1.254.0      10.1.254.255    ether1
>  5   ;;; Wireless connectivity
>      80.87.65.249/29    80.87.65.248    80.87.65.255    wlan1
>  6   ;;; MikroTik Test in the office
>      80.87.64.57/24     80.87.64.0      80.87.64.255    ether1
>[admin at MikroTik] interface>
>
>
> > /interface wlan1 print
>[admin at MikroTik] interface> print from=wlan1
>Flags: X - disabled, D - dynamic, R - running
>  #    NAME            TYPE             RX-RATE    TX-RATE    MTU
>  0    wlan1           wlan             0          0          1500
>[admin at MikroTik] interface>
>
>
> > /interface wlan2 print
>[admin at MikroTik] interface> print from=wlan2
>Flags: X - disabled, D - dynamic, R - running
>  #    NAME            TYPE             RX-RATE    TX-RATE    MTU
>  0    wlan2           wlan             0          0          1500
>[admin at MikroTik] interface>
>
>
> > /interface wireless print
>[admin at MikroTik] interface> wireless print
>Flags: X - disabled, R - running
>  0    name="wlan1" mtu=1500 mac-address=00:0C:42:05:00:17
>       arp=enabled disable-running-check=no
>       interface-type=Atheros AR5413 radio-name="000C42050017"
>       mode=station ssid="mikrotik" area=""
>       frequency-mode=manual-txpower country=no_country_set
>       antenna-gain=0 frequency=5180 band=5ghz scan-list=default
>       rate-set=default
>       supported-rates-b=1Mbps,2Mbps,5.5Mbps,11Mbps
>       supported-rates-a/g=6Mbps,9Mbps,12Mbps,18Mbps,24Mbps,36Mbps,
>                           48Mbps,54Mbps
>       basic-rates-b=1Mbps basic-rates-a/g=6Mbps
>       max-station-count=2007 ack-timeout=dynamic
>       tx-power=default tx-power-mode=default
>       noise-floor-threshold=default periodic-calibration=default
>       burst-time=disabled fast-frames=no dfs-mode=none
>       antenna-mode=ant-a wds-mode=disabled
>       wds-default-bridge=none wds-ignore-ssid=no
>       update-stats-interval=disabled default-authentication=yes
>       default-forwarding=yes default-ap-tx-limit=10000000
>       default-client-tx-limit=10000000 hide-ssid=no
>       security-profile=default disconnect-timeout=3s
>       on-fail-retry-time=100ms preamble-mode=both
>
>  1    name="wlan2" mtu=1500 mac-address=00:0C:42:05:00:46
>       arp=enabled disable-running-check=no
>       interface-type=Atheros AR5413 radio-name="000C42050046"
>       mode=ap-bridge ssid="gabus" area=""
>       frequency-mode=manual-txpower country=no_country_set
>       antenna-gain=0 frequency=2437 band=2.4ghz-onlyg
>       scan-list=default rate-set=default
>       supported-rates-b=1Mbps,2Mbps,5.5Mbps,11Mbps
>       supported-rates-a/g=6Mbps,9Mbps,12Mbps,18Mbps,24Mbps,36Mbps,
>                           48Mbps,54Mbps
>       basic-rates-b=1Mbps basic-rates-a/g=6Mbps
>       max-station-count=2007 ack-timeout=dynamic
>       tx-power=default tx-power-mode=default
>       noise-floor-threshold=default periodic-calibration=default
>       burst-time=disabled fast-frames=no dfs-mode=none
>       antenna-mode=ant-b wds-mode=disabled
>       wds-default-bridge=none wds-ignore-ssid=no
>       update-stats-interval=disabled default-authentication=yes
>       default-forwarding=yes default-ap-tx-limit=0
>       default-client-tx-limit=0 hide-ssid=no
>       security-profile=default disconnect-timeout=3s
>       on-fail-retry-time=100ms preamble-mode=both
>
>[admin at MikroTik] interface>
>
>NOTE: The Flag doesn't show.
>
> >
> > If you just changed the frequency ensure that your cards - on the
> > PC/laptop are on the corresponding frequency. Then try scanning again.
> > Also shut one of the cards down and check for any transmissions, They
> > could be interfering with one another but that ascertion is neither here
> > nor there..first send the output from the above, then we can take it
> > from there.
> >
> > **Gitau
> > Safaricom "The Better Option"
>
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