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Provide thorough knowledge and handson training for MikroTik RouterOS advanced wireless capabilities for small and medium size networks Introduce the 802.11n wireless networking Upon completion of the course you will be able to plan, implement, adjust and debug wireless MikroTik RouterOS network configurations
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Wireless Standard overview Wireless tools Troubleshooting wireless clients Wireless Advanced settings

DFS and country regulation Data Rates and TX-power Virtual AP

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Wireless Security measures

Wireless WDS and MESH Wireless Transparent Bridge

Access List and Connect List Management Frame Protection RADIUS MAC Authentication Encryption

Wireless Nstreme Protocol 802.11n

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WDS VPLS/MPLS transparent bridging

Please, introduce yourself to the class

Your name Your Company Your previous knowledge about RouterOS Your previous knowledge about networking What do you expect from this course?

Please, remember your class XY number.

(X is number of the row, Y is your seat number in the row)

My number is:_________
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Disable any other interfaces (wireless) in your laptop Set 192.168.XY.1 as IP address Set 255.255.255.0 as Subnet Mask Set 192.168.XY.254 as Default Gateway

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Connect to router with MAC-Winbox Add 192.168.XY.254/24 to Ether1

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To configure wireless interface, doubleclick on its name

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802.11b 11Mbps, 2.4Ghz 802.11g 54Mbps, 2.4Ghz 802.11a 54Mbps, 5Ghz 802.11n 300Mbps, 2.4/5Ghz

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2Ghz
B, B/G, Only-G, G-Turbo, Only-N, B/G/N,

5mhz, 10mhz

5Ghz
A, A-Turbo, Only-N, A/N, 5mhz, 10mhz

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AR5213/AR5414
A/B/G, G-Turbo, A-Turbo, 5Mhz, 10Mhz

AR5416/AR9160/AR9220
A/B/G/N, 5Mhz*, 10Mhz*

*not fully supported

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A/B/G Atheros chipset cards usually support such frequencies

2Ghz band: 2192-2539Mhz 5Ghz band: 4920-6100Mhz

N Atheros chipset cards usually support such frequencies

2Ghz band: 2192-2539Mhz

5Ghz band: 4800-6075Mhz

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Default frequencies from the scan-list shown bold in the frequency field (Winbox only) Default scan-list value from the country shown as default Frequency range is specified by the dash

5500-5700

Exact frequencies specified by comma

5500,5520,5540

Mixed option also possible

default,5520,5540,5600-5700
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Scan Frequency Usage Spectral Scan/History Snooper Align Sniffer

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Both tools use the Scan-list Interface is disabled during the usage of tools Scan shows all 802.11 based APs Frequency usage shows every 802.11 traffic

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Uses only Atheros Merlin 802.11n chipset wireless cards Range

2ghz, 5ghz, current-channel, range

Value
avg, avg-peak, interference, max, min

Classify-samples
wifi, bluetooth, microwave-oven, etc

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Plot spectrogram Power values are printed in different colors Audible option - plays each line as it is printed on the routers speaker

Each line is played from left to right, with

higher frequencies corresponding to higher values in the spectrogram

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Continuously monitor spectral data Each line displays one spectrogram bucket:

Frequency Numeric value of power average

Character graphic bar

average power value - ':' average peak hold - '.' maximum lone floating - ':'

Show Interference option

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Enable your AP on one of the 5ghz frequencies Check if that frequency is the less occupied by using the RouterOS wireless tools

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Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS)

no radar detect - at startup AP scans

channel list from "scan-list" and chooses the frequency which is with the lowest amount of other networks detected radar detect - adds capability to detect radar at start up for 60 seconds and avoid them by changing frequency

By most country regulations DFS must be set to radar detect

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Enable the AP on frequency 5180Mhz Enable DFS mode to no radar detect Disable wireless interface on the AP for few seconds and enable it back Observe frequency jumps

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Frequency mode
regulatory domain

- restricts usage only to allowed channels with allowed transmit powers manual txpower ignore transmit power restrictions, but apply to frequency limitations superchannel ignore all restrictions

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ACK-timeout CCQ TX/RX Signal Strength Frames vs. HW-frames Data-rate jumping

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Value in percent that shows how effective the bandwidth is used regarding the theoretically maximum available bandwidth Weighted average of values Tmin/Treal calculated for every transmitted frame
Tmin is time it would take to transmit given

frame at highest rate with no retries Treal is time it took to transmit frame in real life

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Wireless retransmission is when the card sends out a frame and you don't receive back the acknowledgment (ACK), you send out the frame once more till you get back the acknowledgment If the hw-frames value is bigger than frames value then it means that the wireless link is making retransmissions I case of Nstreme you cant compare the frames with hw-frames

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Advanced Wireless Tab settings HW-retries HW-protection

RTS/CTS CTS to self

Adaptive-noise-immunity Configuration Reset WMM

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Area string that describes the AP, used in the clients Connect-list for choosing the AP by the area-prefix Ack-timeout acknowledgement code timeout in s; dynamic by default Periodic-calibration to ensure performance of chipset over temperature and environmental changes Hide-ssid whether to hide ssid or not in the beacon frames

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Number of frame sending retries until the transmission is considered failed Data rate is decreased upon failure But if there is no lower rate, 3 sequential failures activate on-fail-retry-time transmission pause and the counter restarts The frame is being retransmitted either until success or until client is disconnected disconnect-timeout reached

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Frame protection helps to fight "hidden node" problem CTS/RTS protection CTS to self protection hw-protection-threshold frame size threshold at which protection should be used; 0 used for all frames

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RTS/CTS based protection

Device willing to send frame at first sends

RequestToSend frame and waits for ClearToSend frame from intended destination By "seeing" RTS or CTS frame 802.11 compliant devices know that somebody is about to transmit and therefore do not initiate transmission themselves

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"CTS to self" based protection

Device willing to send frame sends CTS frame

"to itself As in RTS/CTS protocol every 802.11 compliant device receiving this frame know not to transmit. "CTS to self" based protection has less overhead, but it must be taken into account that this only protects against devices receiving CTS frame

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If there are 2 "hidden" stations, there is no use for them to use "CTS to self" protection, because they will not be able to receive CTS sent by other station - in this case stations must use RTS/CTS so that other station knows not to transmit by seeing CTS transmitted by AP Use only one protection

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Maximum fragment size in bytes when transmitted over wireless medium Fragmentation allows packets to be fragmented before transmiting over wireless medium to increase probability of successful transmission Only fragments that did not transmit correctly are retransmitted Transmission of fragmented packet is less efficient than transmitting unfragmented packet because of protocol overhead and increased resource usage at both transmitting and receiving party

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Adjusts various receiver parameters dynamically to minimize interference and noise effect on the signal quality Works on Atheros 5212 or newer Atheros chipset Uses CPU power 3 options:

None disabled Client-mode will be enabled only if station or

station-wds used Ap-and-client-mode will be enabled in any mode

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Sometimes after reconfiguring advanced settings you might want to get back the default settings Use the Reset Configuration option resets the current wireless cards all configuration

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4 transmit queues with priorities:

1,2 background
0,3 best effort 4,5 video 6,7 voice

Priorities set by
Bridge or IP firewall

Ingress (VLAN or WMM)

DSCP
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Supported rates client data rates Basic rates link management data rates If router can't send or receive data at basic rate link goes down
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Lower the higher supported data-rates on the client which have stability issues Lower the higher supported data-rates on the AP if most of the clients have problems running on higher data rates. Not recommended to disable lower data rates and leave only the higher data rates as disconnection of the link could happen more often Note that AP and the Client should support the same Basic rates to establish the wireless connection

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Different TX-power for each data-rate higher date rate, less power Disabling the higher data-rates could improve the signal as it uses higher txpower on lower data-rates

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Default uses tx-power values from cards eeeprom Card-rates use tx-power, that for different rates is calculated according the cards transmit power algorithm, which as an argument takes tx-power value All-rates-fixed use one tx-power value for all rates Manual-table use the tx-power as defined in /interface wireless manual-tx-power-table

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Configure the AP to allow the data-rates up to 24Mbps data rates and test the max throughput Configure the AP to allow only the 54Mbps data rate and check the max throughput and check how stable is the connection

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Used for creating a new AP on top of the physical wireless card Works for AR5212 and newer Atheros Chipset cards Up to 128 Virtual AP per wireless card Uses different MAC address and can be changed Can have different SSID, security profile, Access/Connect-list, WDS options

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default-forwarding (on AP) whether the wireless clients may communicate with each other directly (access list may override this setting for individual clients) default-authentication default authentication policy that applies to all hosts not mentioned in the AP's access list or client's connect list

Both options are obsolete same functionality can be achieved with new connect list and access list features
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Access List is AP's authentication filter Connect List is Client's authentication filter Entries in the lists are ordered, just like in firewall each authentication request will have to pass from the first entry until the entry it match There can be several entries for the same MAC address and one entry for all MAC addresses Entries can be wireless interface specific or global for the router

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It is possible to specify authentication policy for specific signal strength range

Example: allow clients to connect with good

It is possible to specify authentication policy for specific time periods

Example: allow clients to connect only on

signal level or not connect at all

It is possible to specify authentication policy for specific security keys:

Example: allow clients only with specific security

weekends

key to connect to the AP.

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Used for allowing/denying access based on:

SSID MAC address of the AP Area Prefix of the AP Signal Strength Range Security Profile

It is possible to prioritize one AP over another AP by changing order of the entries Connect list is used also for WDS links, when one AP connects to other AP

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Peer up with other group (so that there will be two APs and two clients in one group) Leave default-forwarding, defaultauthentication enabled On APs:

Ensure that only clients from your group and

with -70..120 signal strength are able to connect (Advanced) Try out Time settings
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On clients:
Ensure that your client will connect only to

your group APs Try to prioritize one AP over another

When APs have same SSID When APs have different SSID

Delete all access list and connect list rules change places and repeat the lab

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Option for remote centralized MAC RADIUS authentication and accounting Possibility of using radius-incoming feature to disconnect specific MAC address from the AP MAC mode username or username and password MAC Caching Time how long the RADIUS authentication reply for MAC address authentication if considered valid for caching

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Create a RADIUS client under Radius menu Specify the Service, IP address of RADIUS Server and Secret Use Status section to monitor the connection status

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Authentication
PSK Authentication
EAP Authentication

Encryption
AES TKIP WEP

EAP RADIUS Security

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Authentication - ensures acceptance of transmissions only from confirmed source Data encryption
Confidentiality - ensures that information is

accessible only to those authorized to have access Integrity ensures that information is not changed by any other source and are exactly the same as it was sent out

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Pre-Shared Key is a authentication mechanism that uses a secret which was previously shared between the two parties Most common used wireless security type Multiple authentication types for one profile Optional PSK key for each MAC address (using Access list)

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Extensible Authentication Protocol provides a negotiation of the desired authentication mechanism (a.k.a. EAP methods) There are about 40 different EAP methods RouterOS support EAP-TLS method and also is capable to passtrough all methods to the RADIUS server

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AES-CCM AES with CTR with CBC-MAC AES - Advanced Encryption Standard is a block cipher that works with a fixed block size of 128 bits and a key size of 128, 192, or 256 bits CTR - Counter generates the next keystream block by encrypting successive values of a "counter"
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CBC - Cipher Block Chaining each block of plaintext is XORed with the previous ciphertext block before being encrypted. This way, each ciphertext block is dependent on all plaintext blocks processed up to that point. MAC - Message Authentication Code allows to detect any changes to the message content
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Temporal Key Integrity Protocol is a security protocol used in the IEEE 802.11 wireless networks TKIP is evolution of WEP based on RC4 stream cipher Unlike WEP it provides

per-packet key mixing, a message integrity check,

rekeying mechanism
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Wired Equivalent Privacy is one of the first and simple security type Does not have authentication method Not recommended as it is vulnerable to wireless hacking tools

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To make PSK authentication

Use Dynamic Keys mode
Enable WPAx-PSK authentication type Specify Unicast and Group Ciphers (AES

CCM, TKIP) Specify WPAx-Pre-Shared Key

Keys generated on association from PSK will be used in ciphers as entry key

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On the AP and on Station at least one unicast cipher should match to make the wireless connection between 2 devices

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For the AP
If on AP the group cipher will be AES and TKIP

the strongest will be used AES It is advised to choose only one group cipher on the AP

For the Station

If on the Station both group ciphers are used

it means that it will connect to the AP that supports any of these ciphers

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To make the EAP passthrough authentication

Enable WPAx-EAP authentication type

Enable MAC authentication

Set EAP Method to passthrough Enable RADIUS client

To make EAP-TLS authentication

Enable WPAx-EAP authentication type Configure TLS option if you plan to use certificate Import and decrypt certificate

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Make wireless link with your neighbour using WPA-PSK:

Create a security profile and use the same

pre-shared key to establish a wireless connection with your neighbour router.

On the AP add an Access List entry with the neighbours MAC address and specify different PSK key, ask your neighbour to connect to it again
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RouterOS implements proprietary management frame protection algorithm based on shared secret RouterOS wireless device is able to verify source of management frame and confirm that particular frame is not malicious Allows to withstand deauthentication and disassociation attacks on RouterOS based wireless devices.
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Configured in the security-profile

disabled - management protection is disabled allowed - use management protection if

supported by remote party

for AP - allow both, non-management protection and management protection clients for client - connect both to APs with and without management protection

required - establish association only with remote

devices that support management protection

for AP - accept only clients that support management protection for client - connect only to APs that support management protection
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Configured with securityprofile management-protectionkey setting When interface is in AP mode, default management protection key can be overridded by key specified in access-list or RADIUS attribute.

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Work in group with 3 persons One makes an AP Other two connect to the AP One of the client clones the other clients MAC address Check connectivity from both clients to the AP Set the management protection to required and specify a key on the AP and on the original client Check which client connected original or 98 cloned
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WDS
Dynamic WDS Interface
Static WDS Interface

RSTP Bridge HWMP+ MESH

Reactive mode Proactive mode Portals

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WDS allows to create custom wireless coverage using multiple APs what is impossible to do only with one AP WDS allows packets to pass from one AP to another, just as if the APs were ports on a wired Ethernet switch APs must use the same band, same SSID and operate on the same frequency in order to connect to each other

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One AP (bridge/ap-bridge mode) can have WDS link with:

Other AP in bridge/ap-bridge mode Other AP in wds-slave (frequency adapting) mode Client in station-wds mode

You must disable DFS setting if you have more that one AP in bridge/ap-bridge mode in your WDS network WDS implementation could be different for each vendor not all different vendor devices could be connected together with WDS
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There are four different WDS operation modes

Dynamic WDS interfaces are created

automatically as soon as other WDS compatible device is found Static WDS interfaces must be crated manually Dynamic-mesh same as dynamic mode, but with HWMP+ support (not compatible with standard dynamic mode or other vendors) Static-mesh same as static mode, but with HWMP+ support (not compatible with standard static mode or other vendors)
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WDS Default Cost default bridge port cost of the WDS links WDS Cost Range margin of cost that can be adjusted based on link throughput WDS Ignore SSID whether to create WDS links with any other AP in this frequency

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It is created 'on the fly' and appears under WDS menu as a dynamic interface ('D' flag) When link for dynamic WDS interface goes down attached IP addresses will slip off from WDS interface and interface will slip of the bridge Specify wds-default-bridge parameter and attach IP addresses to the bridge

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Requires the destination MAC address and master interface parameters to be specified manually Static WDS interfaces never disappear, unless you disable or remove them WDS-default-bridge should be changed to none

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WDS Mesh is not possible without bridging To create a WDS mesh all WDS interfaces on every router should be bridged together, and with interfaces where clients will be connected To prevent possible loops and enable link redundancy it is necessary to use (Rapid) Spanning Tree Protocol ((R)STP) RSTP works faster on topology changes than STP, but both have virtually the same functionality

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(R)STP eliminate the possibility for the same MAC addresses to be seen on multiple bridge ports by disabling secondary ports to that MAC address
First (R)STP will elect a root bridge based on

smallest bridge ID Then (R)STP will use breadth-first search algorithm taking root bridge as starting point
If algorithm reaches the MAC address for the first time it leaves the link active If algorithm reaches the MAC address for the second time it disables the link
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Disabled port - for looped ports Root port a path to the root bridge Alternative port backup root port (only in RSTP) Designated port forwarding port Backup port backup designated port (only in RSTP)

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MAC address for the bridge interface is taken from one on the bridge ports If the ports changes a lot MAC address of bridge also could change Admin MAC option allows to use static MAC address for the bridge

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Router with the lowest priority in the network will be elected as a Root Bridge

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Cost allows to choose one path over another Priority if costs are the same it is used to choose designated port Horizon feature used for MPLS

Do not forward

packet to the same label ports

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There are 3 options that allow to optimize RSTP performance:

Edge port indicates whether this port is

connected to other bridges Point-to-point - indicates whether this port is connected only to one network device (WDS, wireless in bridge mode) External-fdb allow to use registration table instead as forwarding data base (only AP)

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MikroTik offers alternative to RSTP - HWMP+ HWMP+ is a MikroTik specific Layer-2 routing protocol for wireless mesh networks The HWMP+ protocol is based on, but is not compatible with Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP) from IEEE 802.11s draft standard HWMP+ works only with

wds-mode=static-mesh wds-mode=dynamic-mesh

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To configure HWMP+ use /interface mesh menu - configuration is very similar to bridge configuration. HWMP+ provide optimal routing based on link metric
For Ethernet links the metric is configured

statically For WDS links the metric is updated dynamically depending on wireless signal strength and the selected data transfer rate

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All path are discovered on demand, by flooding Path Request (PREQ) message in the network.

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The destination node or some router that has a path to the destination will reply with a Path Response (PREP)

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In proactive mode some routers are configured as portals router has interfaces to some other network, for example, entry/exit point to the mesh network Best suited when most of traffic goes between internal mesh nodes and a few portal nodes

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The portals will announce their presence by flooding Root Announcement (RANN) message in the network.

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Internal nodes will reply with a Path Registration (PREG) message Result routing trees with roots in the portal routers

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Routes to portals will serve as a kind of default routes If an internal router does not know path to a particular destination, it will forward all data to its closest portal the portal will then discover path on behalf of the router, if needed. The data afterwards will flow through the portal This may lead to suboptimal routing, unless the data is addressed to the portal itself or some external network the portals has interfaces to

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Reoptimize paths sends out periodic PREQ messages asking for known MAC addresses
If no reply is received to a reoptimization PREQ, the existing

path is kept anyway (until it timeouts itself) Better for Proactive mode and for mobile mesh networks

hwmp-preq-destination-only if no then on the Path Requests not only the destination router could answer but also one of the router on the way if it has route to the destination hwmp-preq-reply-and-forward effective only when hwmp-preq-destination-only=no; Router on the way after the reply will still forward the Path Request to the destination (with flags that only the destination router could answer)
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Configure the wireless interface as an AP with the same SSID as the teachers AP Enable Static WDS mesh mode Create WDS link with the teachers AP Configure the MESH add WDS to the mesh port Use MESH traceroute to check the path to the neighbors router

Create WDS link with your neighbor router and add that to the mesh port Check again the MESH traceroute to your neighbor

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Bridging of Ethernet Clients using WDS Bridging using AP-Station WDS Pseudobridge mode with and without MAC Cloning Bridging of Wireless Clients using WDS

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Set station-wds mode WDS-mode must be disabled on the wireless card Wireless client in Station-WDS mode can be bridged
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Uses MAC-NAT MAC address translation for all the traffic Inspecting packets and building table of corresponding IP and MAC addresses All packets are sent to AP with the MAC address used by pseudobridge, and MAC addresses of received packets are restored from the address translation table Single entry in address translation table for all non-IP packets more than one host in the bridged network cannot reliably use non-IP protocols (pppoe for example) IPv6 doesn't work over Pseudobridge
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station-bridge-clone-mac use this MAC address when connection to AP If this value is 00:00:00:00:00:00, station will initially use MAC address of the wireless interface As soon as packet with MAC address of another device needs to be transmitted, station will reconnect to AP using that address

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Create a transparent bridge between you and your neighbor Test both methods
WDS

Pseudobridge mode
Pseudobridge mode with MAC cloning

Check the communication between the PCs behind each router.

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Nstreme is MikroTik's proprietary (i.e., incompatible with other vendors) wireless protocol created to improve point-topoint and point-to-multipoint wireless links.

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Benefits of Nstreme protocol: Client polling Disable CSMA No protocol limits on link distance Smaller protocol overhead per frame allowing super-high data rates No protocol speed degradation for long link distances

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framer-limit - maximal frame size framer-policy - the method how to combine frames. There are several methods of framing:

none - do not combine packets best-fit - put as much packets as possible in one

frame, until the limit is met, but do not fragment packets exact-size - same as best-fit, but with the last packet fragmentation dynamic-size - choose the best frame size dynamically
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Route your private network together with your neighbour's network Enable Nstreme and check link productivity with different framer policies

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 MikroTik proprietary (i.e., incompatible with other vendors) wireless protocol that works with a pair of wireless cards (Atheros chipset cards only) one transmitting, one receiving

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Set both wireless cards into nstreme_dual_slave mode Create Nstreme dual interface Specify the remote MAC address MAC address of the remote ends receive wireless card Use framer policy only if necessary

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MIMO 802.11n Data Rates Channel bonding Frame Aggregation Wireless card configuration TX-power for N cards Transparent bridging for N links

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Increased data rates up to 300Mbps 20Mhz and 2x20Mhz channel support Works both in 2.4 and 5ghz Uses multiple antennas for receive and transmit Frame aggregation

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MIMO Multiple Input and Multiple Output SDM Spatial Division Multiplexing Multiple spatial streams across multiple antennas Multiple antenna configurations for receive and transmit:

1x1, 1x2, 1x3 2x2, 2x3 3x3 4x4

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Adds additional 20Mhz channel to existing channel Channel placed below or above the main channel frequency Backwards compatible with 20Mhz clients connection made to the main channel Allows to use higher data rates

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Combining multiple data frames into single frame decreasing the overhead Aggregation of MAC Service Data Units (AMSDU) Aggregation of MAC Protocol Data Units (AMPDU)

Uses Block Acknowledgement May increase the latency, by default enabled

only for the best-effort traffic Sending and receiving AMSDUs will also increase CPU usage
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ht-rxchains/ht-txchains which antenna connector use for receive and transmit

antenna-mode setting is ignored for N cards

ht-amsdu-limit max AMSDU that device is allowed to prepare ht-amsdu-threshold max frame size to allow including in AMSDU

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ht-guard-interval whether to allow use of short guard interval ht-extension-channel whether to use additional 20MHz extension channel; below or under the main channel frequency ht-ampdu-priorities frame priorities for which AMPDU sending should get negotiated and used (aggregating frames and using block acknowledgment)

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When using two chains at the same time the tx-power is increased by 3db see total-tx-power column When using three chains at the same time tx-power is increased by 5db

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