Allied Telesis AT-WR4500 manual Align, Submenu level /interface wireless align

52	AT-WR4500 Series - IEEE 802.11abgh Outdoor Wireless Routers
	RouterOS v3 Configuration and User Guide

Property Description

arp (disabled enabled proxy-arp reply-only; default: enabled) - Address Resolution Protocol disabled - the interface will not use ARP

enabled - the interface will use ARP

proxy-arp - the interface will use the ARP proxy feature

reply-only - the interface will only reply to the requests originated to its own IP addresses. Neighbor MAC addresses will be resolved using /ip arp statically set table only

disable-running-check(yes no; default: no) - disable running check. For 'broken' wireless interfaces it is a good idea to set this value to 'yes'

mac-address(read-only: MAC address; default: 00:00:00:00:00:00) - MAC address of the master- interface. Specifying master-interface, this value will be set automatically master-interface(name) - wireless interface which will be used by WDS

mtu (integer: 0..65336; default: 1500) - Maximum Transmission Unit

name (name; default: wdsN) - WDS interface name wds-address(MAC address) - MAC address of the remote WDS host

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When the link between WDS devices, using wds-mode=dynamic, goes down, the dynamic WDS interfaces disappear and if there are any IP addresses set on this interface, their 'interface' setting will change to (unknown). When the link comes up again, the 'interface' value will not change - it will remain as (unknown). That's why it is not recommended to add IP addresses to dynamic WDS interfaces.

If you want to use dynamic WDS in a bridge, set the wds-default-bridge value to desired bridge interface name. When the link will go down and then it comes up, the dynamic WDS interface will be put in the specified bridge automatically.

As the routers which are in WDS mode have to communicate at equal frequencies, it is not recommended to use WDS and DFS simultaneously - it is most probable that these routers will not connect to each other.

WDS significantly faster than EoIP (up to 10-20%), so it is recommended to use WDS whenever possible.

Example

[admin@AT-WR4562] interface wireless wds> add master-interface=wlan1 \ \... wds-address=00:0B:6B:30:2B:27 disabled=no

[admin@AT-WR4562] interface wireless wds> print Flags: X - disabled, R - running, D - dynamic

0R name="wds1" mtu=1500 mac-address=00:0B:6B:30:2B:23 arp=enabled disable-running-check=no master-inteface=wlan1 wds-address=00:0B:6B:30:2B:27

[admin@AT-WR4562] interface wireless wds>

4.3.11Align

Submenu level: /interface wireless align

Description

This feature is created to position wireless links. The align submenu describes properties which are used if /interface wireless mode is set to alignment-only. In this mode the interface 'listens' to those packets which are sent to it from other devices working on the same channel. The interface also can send special packets which contains information about its parameters.

Property Description

active-mode(yes no; default: yes) - whether the interface will receive and transmit 'alignment' packets or it will only receive them

audio-max(integer; default: -20) - signal-strength at which audio (beeper) frequency will be the highest