I did find someone that actually answered my question: All wireless bridges in effect are pseudo bridges because 802.11 does NOT allow bridging a wireless CLIENT interface, that's the whole problem in a nut shell. You can bridge AP's all day long but not clients and still be in compliance with the s...

If you would like the mikrotik to behave like a Deliberant or other client, then simply add a bridge, and add the wlan and ether interfaces to the bridge.

If you have that actually working, I would love to see it. I have yet to do that on a client and have it work.

Ok, as stated, I know how to make a transparent bridge with WDS, and I know that RouterOS is very configurable. I just would like to know how I come I can take a Deliberant, in "bridge mode" and hit a Mikrotik AP in "AP bridge mode", and make a bridge with no WDS, and yet I can't...

I have been playing around with some different setups with Mikrotik. I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask a bridge question like this, but I can't find an answer. Here is the setup. Mikrotik 2.4 AP, running in AP bridge mode. There is a bridge containing wlan1 and ether1, with a private IP addre...

This is an aggravating subject for me, and I have posted about it before. If you really want to pull some hair, buy a good quality power meter that checks the power out straight from the card. We have a Berkeley Varitronics Systems Wi-Fi Power Analyzer called a Caterpillar. It is worth the money bec...

A lot of RouterOS I just had to figure out on my own. When I bridged, say ether1 and wlan1, I put the IP address on wlan1. I figure they are actually bridged, so it shouldn't matter which one it goes on. But then I was looking at some examples here on Mikrotik, and I noticed they put the IP addresse...

Man, I had no idea that would be so convoluted. But if all you need to do is get to a management interface located on the private LAN of a Hotspot, it can be done much easier than that. All you have to do is a VPN using Putty. There is a lot of information on the internet about how to do that, so I'...

I appreciate the reply. I know, if I'm thinking correctly, that Cisco just doesn't add a route like that to the routing table unless it has a better administrative distance. If the administrative distance is better, it will discard the route it had and add the new one. I just wanted to make sure I w...

I'm putting together an OSPF lab for a Cisco gateway and Mikrotik APs. Here is a VERY rough draft of the first part (I did mention it was a ROUGH draft, didn't I?): http://www.inetwork-plus.com/ospf/lab-ospf.htm Everything seems to work. The setup is Cisco NAT gateway (1605) --> 5.8 main AP --> 5.8 ...

Just use the MAC Address as the user name. And enable login by MAC in the hotspot server profile. It should work. I'm probably going to just figure this out by trial and error, as I finally got my freeradius server working...but when you enable login by MAC on a hotspot without a radius server, it ...

This may not exactly answer you question, but I found this link one time that I thought was a really fair look at RouterOS when used as a router in a corp. environment:

http://blog.firebright.com/2006/10/12/e ... ate-media/


Hope it helps you.

Thanks,

I've searched the Net over for this one. I have a working FreeRadius server, but only PAP & user name / password logins on a hotspot. When I follow the Mikrotik "how-to's" on authorizing by MAC, my auth attempts fail every time. The MT wiki states this: To authorize associations on an ...

Ok, once again will answer my own question. At least I put some useful information into the system for people to search for. :) Hey, this isn't documented very well and I have to figure it out by trial and error. If you have a radius server, don't add the user to the hotspot!. The radius server will...

Might be something easy, but I have read every document I can find and feel I'm doing exactly as they say. I have a simple freeradius server running on FreeBSD and its working perfectly for PAP authentication, and I have used NtRadPing to verify it. On RouterOS Radius menu: Radius information is con...

Yes it does. I was at home when I posted that and didn't have access to a RouterOS system. I was creating the hotspot by hitting the big red plus sign in IP hotspot. If you do that, it does not create everything. It will do it if you go through setup in winbox, though. Honestly, it didn't hit me tha...

Ok, I'm getting a better feel for what is going on now. I can do this from the CLI pretty easy, but would like to see if it can be done from Winbox...just to see if it can be done. 1) In the CLI hotspot setup, you can set masquerade=yes. If you create your hotspot in Winbox, is that set to default t...

>obviously, this is always the case. by using manual power, >you can damage the card and make the output power low. Well, I messed around with this for a couple of hours yesterday with no luck whatsoever. We have three different 200 mW cards, getting exactly 15 - 17 dBm, when they should be getting ...

For those following this, here is the reply from support: -=-=-=-=-=- Hello Jay, You have to use 'rate-set=configured' for the wireless interface and the lowest rate available for the interface, that will make to use maximum tx-power, run bandwidth test 'direction=transmit' for the wireless interfac...

<i>Have you played with these settings?</i> No I haven't. When we got our first RotuerOS license, I e-mailed support about this same issue. The general reply was to leave the settings on default and the cards would put out the maximum power possible. Obviously, this isn't always the case. Right now ...

We just purchased two RouterBoard 532s and two ubiquity SR-5s, as well having a test RouterOS/WRAP board AP up and running with a few customers on it (which works great, by the way). Anyway, we have a Berkeley Varitronics System's Wi-Fi Power Analyzer that does 2.4 - 2.5 & 5.1 - 5.9. When we use...

Yes, I figured that out just this morning before reading your post. Thanks for the reply, though. I tested it and it works, but I do have a couple of questions on the subject. 1). When I added a user, I couldn't use that user account until I rebooted the AP. Is that normal. 2). Everything works fine...

I have been working on a RouterOS AP. So far I have got it to work in AP-bridge mode and as a "hotspot." Is it possible to have something in between the two? Is there a way to have hotspot-like controls but not have to log-in? What we need just needs to be an always on connection for the c...

We currently have around 30 clients using the system all sharing 4Mbit connection and limited to 128k/256k or less I have recently set up an asterisk box to be able to give voip service to our clients. Thanks David This is an old post and someone has already pointed out that 30 clients on 1 radio i...

Have you tried running MT on the WRAPs? I haven't had any problems with a MT/WRAP combination. No, we have some an extra WRAP boards and I'm fixing to start some testing with it. Can you please expand on your setup just a little? Are you using MT backhaul and WRAP for an AP? Does your WRAP board ju...

We have some 2.4 backhauls in a limited MESH setup, configured exactly as you are describing, and they have been very unstable, more so in the heat of a Texas summer. We are fixing to move to 5.8 backhauls for this very reason. In the Syngress book, "Wireless Hacking," SoCalFreeNet initial...

We are looking at deploying some MT RB532s w/ SR5 cards in them. We are a small WISP with a legacy Canopy system & a Locustworld Mesh system running on dual interface PC WRAP boards. With the WRAP boards, we have had nothing but problems (rebooting, hangs, etc.,). They are dual interface with 2....