General • WiFi Roaming without CapsMAN

Hi,

I just upgraded 10 MikroTik cAP ac to the newest firmware (especially wifi wave2) and i'm interested in using the roaming features (fast handover/connection; i.e. 802.11r).

Is there a way to achieve this without using the central management / CAPsMAN?

If not, I'm a beginner with CAPsMAN; and use VLAN segmentation: Most APs have a tagged VLAN uplink in ether1, some cAP ac's forward only one untagged VLAN over the ether2, while others are daisy chained and forward the tagged VLAN uplink via ether2 (as input for the next cAP ac).
Lastly, there is one VLAN wifi uplink / wireless bridge where no LAN cable was available: Here, the VLAN uplink is forwarded via a special SSID wifi and another mikrotik converts the wifi signal and provides the VLAN uplink tagged as ether2 to the next AP.

I'm not sure whether such a complex scenario can be realized with CAPsMAN (i guess i'm able to configure ether individually; but can i manage a AP bridge/station over CAPsMAN - and even achieve a handover in this scenario?

Right now, everything works but without using the roaming standards.

Statistics: Posted by KevinCrw — Sat Apr 19, 2025 3:37 pm

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