I want to put 4 Nanostation Ms at my house - 2 Nanostation M2s(north/south facing) and 2 Nanostation M5s (north/south facing). Each one is running 3.15.1.0. I would like to have them all connected to each other via Ethernet, so they can route amongst each other. I tried a few combinations of connecting the nodes' secondary ports together, both via a dumb switch and via a crossover cable. I tried the same two things on the primary ports. None of the 4 combinations seemed to do anything.
What should I try instead? I would like traffic coming into any of these 4 radios to be seen by users on the other three. I don't see any way to tweak vlan settings or similar in the web interface.
Theme by Danetsoft and Danang Probo Sayekti inspired by Maksimer
A good document for this is available on the Docs page "Device-to-Device Linking (DtDLink)"
The secondary port is only used on the XW NanoStation all others its on the primary.
To my knowledge the NanoStation M2's do not come in an XW version.
The connection in the setup of two devices as described would be M5 XW Secondary to M2 XM Primary. The same can be extrapolated out to 4 devices as well through a switch.
using four NanoStation M5's:
http://tim-yvonne.com/ham/mesh/array/index.htm
Works well. This allows others to use high gain dishes - pointed at my array - without the need for me to do any precision aiming at my end. Only those on the other end need to worry about the aiming aspect.
FYI, I initially sent this idea to Ubiquiti; they said to have vertical and horiz seperation between them, as well as wide channel spacing. They flat-out said it wouldn't work with any two on the same channel (in such close proximity to each other). I went with those RF shields.
But like others have stated, the pass-through function (from Main to secondary port) is disabled on XM units once Mesh flashed.