> On Jan 24, 2015, at 9:59 AM, dpreed@reed.com wrote: > > On Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:19pm, "Richard Smith" said: > > > On 01/22/2015 04:18 AM, David Lang wrote: > > > > >> Recently, we picked up the 11th floor as well and moved many people up > > >> there. I got a 3rd AP (another TP-Link AC1750) and set that one up on > > >> a free channel with a different ESSID. > > > > > > I like to put all the APs on the same ESSID so that people can roam > > > between them. This requires that the APs act as bridges to a dedicated > > > common network, not as routers. > > > > That's the ultimate plan but for convenience of being able to easily > > select what AP I'm talking to or to be able to tell folks to move from > > one to another I've got them on different ESSIDs. It also helps me keep > > track of what RF channel things are on. > > A side comment, meant to discourage continuing to bridge rather than route. > There's no reason that the AP's cannot have different IP addresses, but a common ESSID. Roaming between them would be like roaming among mesh subnets. Assuming you are securing your APs' air interfaces using encryption over the air, you are already re-authenticating as you move from AP to AP. So using routing rather than bridging is a good idea for all the reasons that routing rather than bridging is better for mesh. > Have the MDNS problems been addressed? The last time I had a go with CeroWRT (about 6 months ago) the problems were too severe for me to keep using it. I had to fall back to a bridged setup for my primarily Mac environment. I'm a long-time Linux user-space developer but am a complete newbie when it comes to developing for CeroWRT. If someone can point me at the right spot to start working on the MDNS issues then I'll see if I can do anything to help. Regards, Kelvin