AIR AP 3600 repeater setup

[SimonWoodcock8849]

Hi,

I'm trying to setup a study lab, using two AP3600. They have latest firmware. I'm just struggling to understand the behaviour and get this right, so I'm hoping someone who has successfully done this before can help. I have one AP3600 as Root AP, all working fine, on an IP x.y.200.6 and then I setup a second as a repeater. When I setup the repeater (eventually they joined), but once I'd done this, I could no longer connect or ping the IP of the root AP, I can only ping the IP of the repeater, and connect to this. Is this the expected behaviour, or have I done somethign incorrect in my setuy please? 

Been reading lots on this, but no jo

[Rasika Nayanajith]

I could not remember if there are any limitations like that on the repeater setup.

https://mrncciew.com/2013/01/20/autonomous-ap-repeater/ 

Due to throughput reduction, the repeater is not a common mode of deployment nowadays. If you would like to try, see WGB mode as that may give better results in what you trying to do.

https://mrncciew.com/2014/01/04/wireless-wired-clients-behind-wgb/ 

HTH

Rasika

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[SimonWoodcock8849]

Hi,

I was going to setup WGB later and try that out, but I wanted to get the repeater mode working, tested, see throughput (I'm only using one repeater in the chain, no more) and just test it all out so I could understand the theory. Thanks for the posts, but I'm not sure that fully answers my questions, I'll read your links in some more depth and see later on today.

The thing is I may have done something wrong on my config. I didn't use the 'infrastructure-ssid optional' command, I only used infrastructure-ssid, when setting up, wonder if this has caused the issue? I will post my configs later.

Regards,

Si