P2P wireless bridge

[Vincent61]

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

[alemabrahao]

@Vincent61 

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

[Vincent61]

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

[alemabrahao]

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

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

[Vincent61]

No two separate buildings …no cable

[alemabrahao]

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_Wireles...

[Vincent61]

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.

[Vincent61]

Thank you for that info.  Very helpful