[HamWAN PSDR] Client configuration instructions

Bart Kus me at bartk.us
Sat Aug 31 07:51:50 PDT 2013 

If dhcp-client is already set on wlan1-gateway, then just make sure the 
options are set properly by replacing the "add" with a "set":

/ip dhcp-client set 0 add-default-route=yes 
dhcp-options=hostname,clientid disabled=no

You should be good to go if everything else worked out OK.

--Bart

On 8/31/2013 12:24 AM, Kenny Richards wrote:
> So I ran into another problem, when I got past the scan-list issue.
>
> At step 12, where I'm telling the radio interface to pull DHCP from 
> HamWAN, it is telling me the interface already exists. When I look at 
> the interfaces in WinBox, they are not named quite the same. 
> (ether1-local and wlan1-gateway)  But when I tried using 
> interface=wlan1-gateway, it still didn't work.
>
> The next step (13) seems to work fine.....
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Kenny
>
>     [admin at KU7M-CapitolPark] /ip dhcp-client>> /ip dhcp-client
>     [admin at KU7M-CapitolPark] /ip dhcp-client>> add
>     add-default-route=yes dhcp-options=hostname,clientid disabled=no in
>     terface=wlan1
>     failure: dhcp-client on that interface already exists
>     [admin at KU7M-CapitolPark] /ip dhcp-client>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Bart Kus <me at bartk.us 
> <mailto:me at bartk.us>> wrote:
>
>     Good catches.
>
>     In terms of "input does not match any value of name" it looks like
>     a bug in the command-line interface.  I can repro it here:
>
>     [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=HamWAN
>
>     input does not match any value of name
>     [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=default
>     [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=Sector2
>
>     input does not match any value of name
>     [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=5905
>     [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> set wlan1 scan-list=HamWAN
>
>     input does not match any value of name
>     [eo at AE7SJ-Paine] /interface wireless> print
>     Flags: X - disabled, R - running
>      0  R name="wlan1" mtu=1500 mac-address=D4:CA:6D:7A:B8:23
>     arp=enabled interface-type=Atheros AR92xx mode=station
>     ssid="HamWAN" frequency=5905
>           band=5ghz-onlyn channel-width=5mhz *scan-list=5905*
>     wireless-protocol=nv2 wds-mode=disabled wds-default-bridge=none
>     wds-ignore-ssid=no
>           bridge-mode=enabled default-authentication=yes
>     default-forwarding=yes default-ap-tx-limit=0
>     default-client-tx-limit=0 hide-ssid=no
>           security-profile=default compression=no
>
>     You can see the scan-list was NOT set properly. However, if you
>     set it using WinBox it DOES set it properly AND uses it properly
>     to scan through the channels.  I'll try to reach out to Mikrotik
>     support to get their take on this.
>
>     In terms of your other report of no such thing existing, drop the
>     initial "Interface".  It's just Wireless, and then the rest of the
>     click path is OK.
>
>
>
>     You can see Signal Strength readings there.
>
>     --Bart
>
>
>
>
>     On 8/29/2013 8:55 PM, Jeff Francis^(TM) wrote:
>>       Oh, one other thing.  There's a line that says:
>>
>>     "Point your dish at any cell site and optimize for best signal.
>>     Look at the Interface -> Wireless -> wlan1 -> Status signal
>>     strength reports while you align."
>>
>>     Not sure what the equivalent is in OS 6.2, but there's no such
>>     critter that I can find.  The closest thing I've found is
>>     clicking on "Quick Set" where there's a display of signal
>>     strength, SNR, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Jeff Francis^(TM)
>>     <jeff at gritch.org <mailto:jeff at gritch.org>> wrote:
>>
>>           I tried configuring mine this evening, and it mostly went
>>         well, except for this line:
>>
>>         [admin at N0GQ-KPAE] /interface wireless> set 0 disabled=no
>>         frequency-mode=superchannel scan-list=HamWAN ssid=HamWAN
>>         wireless-protocol=nv2
>>         input does not match any value of name
>>         [admin at N0GQ-KPAE] /interface wireless>
>>
>>           I'm afraid I'm not yet familiar enough with RouterOS to
>>         make heads or tails of that error message.  I tried some
>>         obvious (and non-obvious) things, and managed to get some new
>>         and improved error messages, but never managed to quite
>>         figure out what I'm doing wrong.
>>
>>           I haven't tried adding the keys and accounts yet.  Figured
>>         there's no point in worrying about that until I can get the
>>         thing linked up to KPAE.
>>
>>           FWIW, I've re-opened the hole in my firewall if you want to
>>         debug (per earlier irc chat).
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Bart Kus <me at bartk.us
>>         <mailto:me at bartk.us>> wrote:
>>
>>             Hi all,
>>
>>             Due to popular demand, I've thrown together a page that
>>             should take you from unboxing a Metal 5SHPn modem to
>>             getting it on the air.  See here for instructions:
>>
>>             https://www.hamwan.org/t/tiki-index.php?page=Client+Node+Configuration&structure=HamWAN
>>
>>             NQ1E, if you could attach key-dsa-NQ1E.txt to that page
>>             when/if you see this, that would complete the
>>             instructions for now.
>>
>>             Please let me know if the instructions need fixing or
>>             improving.
>>
>>             --Bart
>>
>>
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>>
>>         -- 
>>         -=jeff=-
>>
>>
>>
>>
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