I’m new in Mikrotik technology, I just configured my first device at yesterday. Everything worked fine, today I should check out the configuration, and should “surface” that - but these things happened:
(I don’t know the type of board, there are 5 ethernet connectors, and one wireless antenna, but it looks like the box can handles 3 antennas, and winbox shows two antennas, when I want to configure WIFI. I configured two wireless network, one bridge with eth2 and wlan2, a standalone wlan1, and eth1 is an “outside” interface; wireless connections doesn’t have any security mode, this was just a test)
SSID’s doens’t seems at clients. Sometimes it shows up, but just for few seconds, then goes down.
if client can connect to AP, then disconnect immediately
when client disconnected, in log there are many of this line:
disconnected, received deauth: unspecified (1)
after a half hour about the SSID-s doesn’t seems absolutly
when I configure anything, after reboot it has no effect, the modification is lost
if I configure anything in wireless settings (eg.: adding new virtual-ap, remove existing virtual-ap, change type of ARP, eg from proxy-arp to enabled…), router restart immediately (and modification is lost, of course)
Sometimes in log I see this line:
System rebooted because of kernel failure
There are many backup files, if I select one of them, and try to restore that, device shows up it needs to reboot, but after reboot the system comes with that settings, which I made yesterday - I can’t modify my settings! It looks like a “read-only filesystem”
Dear ;
you should tell us what you want to do with your RB ? , are you a Wisp ? or client or you are using it for tests ? ,
you said that there are many ethr ports and more than wireless card .
what you need to make exactly ? ,
with best regards .
there is a wireless interface, I created a “normaly” AP, and a virtual AP
there is a bridge, with eth2 and with the virtual AP: this is the OfficeLan
the normaly AP is the “customerLan”
not exactly
sorry, I don’t understand this question.
I described above, what is the topology of the network, which Mikrotik serve’s.
From OfficeLAN all users can go to anywhere. From CustomerLan, the users connected to Mikrotik as a HotSpot, and can goes to everywhere, except OfficeLAN.
Hope you understand this.
An interesting effect: I have set up the Mikrotik at 22nd of February. I have done it absolutly fully. I just should check the settings on 23rd of February, and those problems came what I described in my first post.
After, on 25th of February, I turn on the Mikrotik again, and everything works fine…(!!!)
Hi again ;
let me give you some help to configure your network
you should choose ip for the office and ip for the clients , put them on a paper to use them later .
do not give any ip for ether2 .
as you told us you will use AP bridge wlan1 for the office wireless use and a Virtual Ap wlan2 for the clients wireless use .
create the AP bridge wlan1 with the ssid required for the office and you should choose the band and the freq for it .
create the Virtual Ap ( wlan2 ) with another ssid to be used for the wireless clients only .
now we will go to bridge , make bridge1 and then go to ports add ether2 and wlan2 to bridge1 , now they become as single network and we will give them both a single ip .
now we have the following interfaces :
a) ether1
b) wlan 1
c) bridge1 , which it is ether2+ wlan2
now you should go to ip address and define the ip of the isp for ether1 and the ip going to the wireless clients by wlan2 and the ip going to the office by bridge1 .
in ip route you should add the gateway so you could reach the internet through it .
in ip dns add your dns servers ip , and from tools you should ping the dns server .
if the office users will use the connection without hotspot or pppoe servers , you should define a dhcp server for them through bridge1 and you should add the following rule in firewall nat :
/ ip firewall nat
add chain=srcnat out-interface=!bridge1 src-address=!xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx action=masquerade comment=“” disabled=no
while you told us that only the wieless client will use hotspot for their connection , you should setup another dhcp server for them and this time through wlan2 .
setup a hotspot server for them and add the users with their passwords .
i hope this will help you , give us feedback and if you need any further help write again .
with best regards .
