Wireless Wds Mesh

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Wireless WDS Mesh
Wireless WDS Mesh Network Mesh Network Is a Topology , That Topology Has Full Bidirectional Connectivity Between His Nodes . In This Mode Every Node In Network ( Access Point ) Haven't Only A Way To Other Nodes , But They Can Access To Other Network With Other Nodes . In Concept Mesh Have Some Modes Such As ( Full Mesh , Partial Mesh Or Hybird MeshAnd … ) And I Want To Describe Full And Partial Mesh Modes And Its Configuration In Mikrotik . Mesh network Have Some Advantage Such As : Roaming Ability , Full Coverage , Redundancy And Fault Tolerance Between Some Links And Etc … In Mikrotik Router Board's We Can Setup Mesh Network With Different Methods , And We Only Focus In Two Model : Model 1 : Wireless WDS Mesh With Mesh Interface Model 2 :Wireless WDS Mesh With Bridge Interface Model 1 In This Model We Have Wireless Network In That We Need Some RouterBoard , They Must Be Configured The Same As Each Other ( Mode , Band , Frequency , Security , … ) I Configured My RouterBoard With This Configuration : Mode : Ap-Bridge Band : 2 Ghz - Only N Channel Width : 20 Mhz SSID : Reza-Moghadam Frequency : 2474 Security Profile : Default WDSMode : Dynamic Mesh WDS Default Bridge : Mesh-Interface Mesh : Mesh-Interface Mesh Port : Ether1 Diagram :

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Configuration : Wireless :

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interface wireless set ssid=Reza-Moghadam mode=ap-bridge band=2ghz-onlyn frequency=2412 wds-mode=dynamic-mesh wds-default-bridge=Mesh-Interface

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interface mesh addname=Mesh-Interface interface mesh port add interface=Wlan1 mesh=Mesh-Interface IP Address :

Ip Address add address=192.168.88.1/24 interface=Mesh-Interface Preview Result Of Configuration's :

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This Configuration Is The Same In All Of RouterBoards , But You Need Only Change IP Addresses .

Computer Client : In This Way , Computer ClientOnly Can View A SSID When Scanned That ( For Roaming Purpose ) And After Connect To That , Can See All Other Router Board's .

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Exploration : AS You Can See , All Access Point Have Full Connectivity With Each Other , In This Mode If One Link Goes Down Between Two AP's , They Use Other Way From Other AP's . With This WDS Mesh Model , We Have A Full Mesh Network , BecauseIn Same Time We Have Some Path To Other AP's .

Wireless WDS Mesh In This Model We Can Use A Good Protocol Called HWMP + ( Hybird Wireless Mesh Protocol + ) This Protocol Is Not IEEE HWMP Standard , This Protocol Is Mikrotik Layer 2 Routing Protocol , That can Route Path In Layer 2 Network . You Can Also Use Two Modes Of HWMP In Your Mesh Network , They Can Optimize Your Path Routing . For MoreInformation See HWMP + Model 2 This Mode Is Also Similar To Full WDS Mesh But Have a Different , That Different Is , In This Model We Use Interface Bridge Instead Of Interface Mesh , And Also Use STP ( Spanning Tree Protocol ) Family Protocol's Such As ( STP , RSTP ) . STP , RSTP Protocol's Give Us A Loop Free Path In Layer 2 Network , In This Mode A Better RouterBoard ( By Priority ) Act AsRoot Bridge In Layer 2 Network , And Analyze And Monitoring The Layer 2 Network With Send And Receiving BPDU's ( Bridge Protocol Data Unit ) . If He See Some BPDU Come Backed To himself , He Send Block Command To That Path ( To Other AP's ) . In This Time , Other Extra ( Loop ) Path , Goes Down With Block Mode . I Configured My RouterBoard With This Configuration : Mode : Ap-Bridge Band : 2 Ghz -Only N Channel Width : 20 Mhz SSID : Reza-Moghadam Frequency : 2474 Security Profile : Default WDS Mode : Dynamic Mesh WDS Default Bridge : Bridge-Interface Bridge : Bridge-Interface Bridge STP Mode : RSTP Mode Bridge Port : Ether1 , Wlan1 Diagram :

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Configuration : Wireless :

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interface wireless set ssid=Reza-Moghadam mode=ap-bridge...