GL-B1300 - Mesh only, wired back haul, all routing on external router

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Hi,

What I would like to achieve is two nodes using a wired backhaul. All DHCP, DNS, firewall, etc, handled by my opnsense router. I just want radio handoffs and the like between the mesh devices. Two other mesh units will use radio for the backhaul.

Is all this possible?

Thanks,

Mike

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Forget the mesh and since you’ve got wiring, use the B1300s as Access Points. Plan your channels and transmit powers to assist with proper handoff.

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Some wire, which I want to exploit, and some not. Sadly.

Mike

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Looks like I have 802.11r and 802.11s working. Well, I really need to configure a second device to know for sure, but I’m caught in VLAN mess right now.

This video helped with the 802.11s: OpenWRT - 802.11s Mesh WiFi Network - YouTube and he has a further 802.11r video that is linked in the description. Not too difficult and the video is recent enough that the openWrt Luci interface matches. Note: I did update my access point to OpenWrt 22.03.2 r19803-9a599fee93.

Thanks,

Mike

/etc/conf/wireless
config wifi-iface 'wifinet2'
        option device 'radio1'
        option mode 'mesh'
        option encryption 'sae'
        option mesh_id 'OC288M-mesh'
        option mesh_fwding '1'
        option mesh_rssi_threshold '0'
        option key '<password>f'
        option network 'lan'
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