I currently have a 5.8 WDS-bridge doing backhaul to a tower location that has a 2.4 AP on it. The AP is a dumb cisco radio.
The question is:
My 5.8 wlan and eth01 are bridged, can I run hotspot on eth01 to controll access to the dumb cisco, or do I need to add a MT between them to run the hotspot?
Or is there another way?
Yes, you can run a hotspot on the ether1 interface.
EDIT::
oops i missed the part where you said bridged… that could cause some problems because you’d have to do some kind of masqueradeing.. so you either need to run it off of a seperate interface on the router (ether2), or if the point to point bridge is just feeding the hotspot remove the bridge and NAT the traffic on ether1
Ok, Thanks.
Off I go to RTFM and dig thru the forum, cause I have some clients and other AP’s on what will become the private side that need public addresses.
yeah if you got another ethernet interface on the router just plug the cisco AP directly into that and run the hotspot on the 2nd ether interface.. otherwise it sounds like you’d need another mikrotik, or do some kind of creative solution with proxy-arp.
Well, pulling another 250’ cable down the tower is not the option that I want to go. So, a digging I will go.
You mean you didn’t pull up multiple strands of cat5! Who’s your network engineer? haha 