topic Re: Meshconnex between two AP7131 in ExtremeWireless (WiNG)

Meshconnex between two AP7131

Forhad — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:27:37 GMT

Hello,

I have two AP 7131 access point which I am trying to connect with Mesh. Both are running on Wing 5.7. How can I accomplish that? I have reading some topics here and some documentations here but it does not look like I am getting it right. Can anyone please give me step by step instructions using gui I really appreciate it. Thanks in advanced.

Thanks

Forhad

Re: Meshconnex between two AP7131

Ovais_Qayyum — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 01:12:25 GMT

Hi Forhad,

Attached How To MeshConnex guide should help you with step by step UI based instructions. The branding on the guide is a bit old but the content and all the UI options are still valid.

Since you have only two APs and no controller involved, one of the APs will be configured as Virtual Controller (VC) and entire configuration will be managed with the VC, instead of configuring two APs individually.

Regards,

Ovais

Re: Meshconnex between two AP7131

Forhad — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 01:45:20 GMT

Thank you Ovais. I am still not having any luck. I followed the atttached instructions but there some options are missing in Wing 5.7. Like under the Smart RF - > Scanning Configuration there is no option to add the meshpoint. Then when I go to the statistics and select default and select mesh point then MCX logical view I can see both the APs. Please see the attached picture. The problem I am having is when I moved the second AP far from the root AP I cannot connect to the internet. Can you please help me with this? I really appreciate it.

Thanks

Forhad

Re: Meshconnex between two AP7131

Forhad — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 02:56:31 GMT

Sorry forgot to add the picture.

Re: Meshconnex between two AP7131

Ovais_Qayyum — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 10:03:33 GMT

Hi Forhad,

You can skip the Smart-RF configuration and set the 5GHz interface on both APs to the same channel by navigating to Configuration > System Profile > Interfaces > Radios > Radio 2 > Channel (set the channel to any non-DFS channel, you can use channel 36,40,44,48).

From the screenshot, it looks like that you have a 5GHz Mesh link established between the two APs, which is good. I need to understand your scenario a bit more to be able to help you out. Please clarify the following:

1- Did you configure one of the APs as a VC? if you did, please send me the running-config from the VC so that I can cross-check the configuration.

2- Do you have an SSID configured on both the Root and Non-Root APs for the clients? This SSID will be mapped to 2.4GHz radio since the 5GHz interface is used for the Mesh link.

3- Did you allow the VLAN used by the client SSID under the MeshConnex Policy?

4- Is there a Line of Sight between the two APs when you move the non-Root away from the Root AP?

Regards,

Ovais

Re: Meshconnex between two AP7131

Forhad — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:32:04 GMT

Hi Ovais,

1- Did you configure one of the APs as a VC? if you did, please send me the running-config from the VC so that I can cross-check the configuration.

Yes I configured one AP as a VC. Here is the running config

!
! Configuration of AP7131 version 5.7.1.0-019R
!
!
version 2.4
!
!
client-identity-group default
load default-fingerprints
!
ip access-list BROADCAST-MULTICAST-CONTROL
permit tcp any any rule-precedence 10 rule-description "permit all TCP traffic"
permit udp any eq 67 any eq dhcpc rule-precedence 11 rule-description "permit DHCP replies"
deny udp any range 137 138 any range 137 138 rule-precedence 20 rule-description "deny windows netbios"
deny ip any 224.0.0.0/4 rule-precedence 21 rule-description "deny IP multicast"
deny ip any host 255.255.255.255 rule-precedence 22 rule-description "deny IP local broadcast"
permit ip any any rule-precedence 100 rule-description "permit all IP traffic"
!
mac access-list PERMIT-ARP-AND-IPv4
permit any any type ip rule-precedence 10 rule-description "permit all IPv4 traffic"
permit any any type arp rule-precedence 20 rule-description "permit all ARP traffic"
!
ip snmp-access-list default
permit any
!
firewall-policy default
no ip dos tcp-sequence-past-window
no stateful-packet-inspection-l2
!
!
mint-policy global-default
!
meshpoint-qos-policy default
!
wlan-qos-policy default
qos trust dscp
qos trust wmm
!
radio-qos-policy default
!
wlan wlan1
ssid MySpectrumWiFi21-5G
vlan 1
bridging-mode local
encryption-type none
authentication-type none
!
meshpoint mymesh
meshid mymesh
beacon-format mesh-point
control-vlan 1
security-mode none
root
!
smart-rf-policy default
no interference-recovery
no neighbor-recovery
no coverage-hole-recovery
!
dhcp-server-policy test
dhcp-pool test
network 10.0.0.0/24
!
!
management-policy default
no http server
https server
ssh
user admin password 1 732609aac277bc4ca086fce19641fd265888542905d4fb754e055aa03402dbbc role superuser access all
snmp-server community 0 private rw
snmp-server community 0 public ro
snmp-server user snmptrap v3 encrypted des auth md5 0 admin123
snmp-server user snmpmanager v3 encrypted des auth md5 0 admin123
!
l2tpv3 policy default
!
profile ap71xx default-ap71xx
autoinstall configuration
autoinstall firmware
crypto ikev1 policy ikev1-default
isakmp-proposal default encryption aes-256 group 2 hash sha
crypto ikev2 policy ikev2-default
isakmp-proposal default encryption aes-256 group 2 hash sha
crypto ipsec transform-set default esp-aes-256 esp-sha-hmac
crypto ikev1 remote-vpn
crypto ikev2 remote-vpn
crypto auto-ipsec-secure
crypto remote-vpn-client
interface radio1
wlan wlan1 bss 1 primary
interface radio2
channel 36
data-rates an
rate-selection opportunistic
wlan wlan1 bss 1 primary
meshpoint mymesh bss 2
interface radio3
interface ge1
interface ge2
interface vlan1
ip address dhcp
ip address zeroconf secondary
ip dhcp client request options all
interface wwan1
interface pppoe1
use firewall-policy default
use client-identity-group default
service pm sys-restart
meshpoint-device mymesh
root
monitor primary-port-link action no-root
!
rf-domain default
country-code us
use smart-rf-policy default
!
ap71xx FC-0A-81-36-7D-C8
use profile default-ap71xx
use rf-domain default
hostname ap7131-367DC8
interface vlan1
description "Virtual Interface for LAN by Wizard"
ip address dhcp
ip address zeroconf secondary
no ip dhcp client request options all
virtual-controller
rf-domain-manager capable
logging on
logging console warnings
logging buffered warnings
!
ap71xx FC-0A-81-B7-FA-84
use profile default-ap71xx
use rf-domain default
hostname ap7131-B7FA84
!
!
end

2- Do you have an SSID configured on both the Root and Non-Root APs for the clients? This SSID will be mapped to 2.4GHz radio since the 5GHz interface is used for the Mesh link.

Yes I have SSID configured. How do I map this SSID to 2.4GHz radio. Do I need to this on both APs ?

3- Did you allow the VLAN used by the client SSID under the MeshConnex Policy?

I do not see any option under the MeshConnex Policy to allow VLAN used by the client SSID. Please see the picture below.

4- Is there a Line of Sight between the two APs when you move the non-Root away from the Root AP?

There are walls between the APS.

One thing I have noticed when I am trying to connect to the internet from a client, the client is not getting the ip address from my router. Maybe that is the issue ?

Thanks

Forhad

Re: Meshconnex between two AP7131

SamPirok — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 23:58:20 GMT

Hi Forhad, I just wanted to check in with you here, was the IP address the issue or are you still troubleshooting this?

Re: Meshconnex between two AP7131

Forhad — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 23:41:32 GMT

I am still trouble shooting.