Hello,
I have Aruba AP-303H and would like use it as AP only,
Is it better to run stock aruba firmware or openwrt?
Thanks.
That's something I think you would have to answer yourself. Given this is an openwrt forum if you want help I say put openwrt on it =P
Looks like it's still a currently supported product. Also looks like you could buy a 10 year service /cloud subscription for it so I guess it's got at least 2-3 years of software support from HPE/Aruba left?
From what I read it supports standalone mode.
So I guess compare the functionality from stock firmware to openwrt. I'd run openwrt on it unless I eventually wanted to run an HPE/Aruba controller or other aruba/HPE AP's on a controller.
Got it.
For running it as AP only, I just need to connect ethernet cable from POE switch to WAN port of AP. Correct?
And do I need to create any interface/firewall/dhcp/dns at all? Wont that all be coming from my actual openwrt router?
And just enable Network->Wireless?
Edit - Is this what I am looking for https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/bridgedap#wireless_access_point_-_dumb_access_point?
From reading the following five items:
https://openwrt.org/toh/aruba/ap-303h
https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/aruba/aruba_ap-303h
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=c6e972c8772a628a1a2f2e5590d7c6f4acef9ab0
If you're planning on running bridged AP using the PoE PD port you'll need to reconfigure the wan port to be bridged with whatever network you're after. So yeah bridged AP like any other single ethernet port AP.
I was able to follow https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/bridgedap#wireless_access_point_-_dumb_access_point and make it work.
In the process, I went to Network->Interfaces->Devices->Configure "br-lan"->
Added wan also to the Birdge ports
Is that the correct way to use wan port alone and use it as AP alone?
Yes, that should be fine. Make sure you either delete the wan/wan6 interfaces or remove the wan port from them.
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That worked!!
In Aruba firmware, There was a way to create new network (SSID) which support both 2.4G and 5G under one ssid. My understanding is, clients will switch bands automatically based on range.
Is the same doable with openwrt?
Yes. You'll see that you have 2 radios. Set the SSID that is configured under each of the radios to have the same SSID + encryption type + passphrase, and then make sure thy are enabled. This will allow both bands to be used and the clients will dynamically switch based on their internal logic for performance based on factors like signal quality and the like.
That worked too.
For both radios do I leave "Maximum transmit power" as driver default?
I see I can choose higher from the drop down.
Using the driver default is probably good unless you have multiple APs... in that case, you'll actually want to decrease the power.
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My primary router (openwrt) already having adblock configured.
I can now remove adblock setup from aruba ap (openwrt) which I just configured? And clients who connect to aruba ap will still get adds removed using main openwrt router?
You only need Adblock on the main router. The AP is transparent.
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I accidently removed package libustream-mbedtls20201210
And opkg update command is failing as below,
wget: SSL support not available, please install one of the libustream-.*[ssl|tls] packages as well as the ca-bundle and ca-certificates packages.
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/targets/ipq40xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz
Any idea how can I fix it?
root@OpenWrt:~# ping google.com
PING google.com (142.250.196.14): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 142.250.196.14: seq=0 ttl=58 time=19.981 ms
64 bytes from 142.250.196.14: seq=1 ttl=58 time=20.010 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 19.981/19.995/20.010 ms
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg update
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/targets/ipq40xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz
wget: SSL support not available, please install one of the libustream-.*[ssl|tls] packages as well as the ca-bundle and ca-certificates packages.
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/targets/ipq40xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/base/Packages.gz
wget: SSL support not available, please install one of the libustream-.*[ssl|tls] packages as well as the ca-bundle and ca-certificates packages.
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/base/Packages.gz
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/luci/Packages.gz
wget: SSL support not available, please install one of the libustream-.*[ssl|tls] packages as well as the ca-bundle and ca-certificates packages.
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/luci/Packages.gz
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/packages/Packages.gz
wget: SSL support not available, please install one of the libustream-.*[ssl|tls] packages as well as the ca-bundle and ca-certificates packages.
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/packages/Packages.gz
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/routing/Packages.gz
wget: SSL support not available, please install one of the libustream-.*[ssl|tls] packages as well as the ca-bundle and ca-certificates packages.
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/routing/Packages.gz
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/telephony/Packages.gz
wget: SSL support not available, please install one of the libustream-.*[ssl|tls] packages as well as the ca-bundle and ca-certificates packages.
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/telephony/Packages.gz
Collected errors:
* opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/targets/ipq40xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
* opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/base/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
* opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/luci/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
* opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/packages/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
* opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/routing/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
* opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/telephony/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
I end up hard resetting it.