Additional Wireless Interface

[r300]

Good day,

Is it possible to add additional wireless interface? Existing wireless interfaces are “wlan1” and “wlan2”.
Is it possible to add another “wlan3” interface?

Thanks!

[vecernik87]

Real wlan interface? Depends on model. Some of them have mini-PCI slot, but if your model is just ordinary box with several ports, most probably you will have only integrated radio without possibility to add more.

With every model, you can add “virtual” interface with limited capabilities as slave interface to any real wlan interface. Limited capabilities means it will allow you for example add another SSID and different password, but physical radio parameters (for example frequency) will match those set in it’s master wlan.

[r300]

Real wlan interface? Depends on model. Some of them have mini-PCI slot, but if your model is just ordinary box with several ports, most probably you will have only integrated radio without possibility to add more.

With every model, you can add “virtual” interface with limited capabilities as slave interface to any real wlan interface. Limited capabilities means it will allow you for example add another SSID and different password, but physical radio parameters (for example frequency) will match those set in it’s master wlan.

Thanks for the info.

Btw, i’m using cAP ac access point.

[vecernik87]

cAP AC cannot add more physical radios, however it is still possible to add virtual AP: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Wireless#Virtual_interfaces
With that, you can create for example gues wifi etc..