P2P wireless bridge

[VincentSpinelli83492]

Hi…was wondering if anyone has had success using a p2p wireless bridge to connect two meraki switches (trunk)

[aleabrahao]

@VincentSpinelli83492

I didn't understand your question. Do you want to connect Meraki Switches via Wireless?

[VincentSpinelli83492]

Yes I do. Distance is about 50 feet. Not worried about the wireless part. I’m more concerned with trunking across the bridge and having the vlan info span the bridge properly . I have used ubiquiti nano beam in the past and that didn’t work so well. It appears that Ubiquisys does not pass the 802.1q frames properly. The result is I have an inaccurate dashboard in tems of what client is connected to whatbswitch

[aleabrahao]

Look, I'm pretty sure that's not possible.

Is it not possible to connect these switches to your infrastructure via an Ethernet cable?

[VincentSpinelli83492]

No two separate buildings …no cable

[aleabrahao]

Access points intended to form a wireless link or mesh together must be within direct line of sight of each other.

Wireless bridges running version 27.X or below only support a single VLAN. If support for multiple subnets is a requirement for the deployment, a layer 3-capable device will be required. MR repeaters will only send/receive untagged traffic on its wired interface regardless of the configuration of the SSID in use.

Starting 28.1, Multi-vlan support was added.

By extension, wired clients across the mesh link do not support the use of VLANs applied by Group Policies.

https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Wi-Fi_Basics_and_Best_Practices/Extending_the_LAN_with_a_Wireless_Mesh_Link

[VincentSpinelli83492]

For that reason not an option. Plus the cost of using meraki APs is cost prohibitive for Sam all businesses

[Russ_B · Accepted solution]

I don't have Meraki specific experience, but I'm using two MikroTik 60ghz bridges to connect my workshop to my house (about 100ft distance.) I have Cisco Catalyst switches on both sides of the link with 802.1q trunk ports connected to the bridges, and I have devices in the workshop working on both the data and voice VLANs. I would think that setup would work just as well with Meraki switches.

[VincentSpinelli83492]

Thank you for that info. Very helpful