Hi I’m new to Mikrotik products.
I’m currently setting up a Mikrotik 4G Kit SXT and a bunch of Mikrotik Hap AC lites.
Should I be setting up the 4G SXT as the CAPSMAN server or should I be setting CAPSMAN up on the first of the HAP AC Lites?
Also should the DHCP server be running on the 4G SXT or the first of the HAP AC Lites?
Thanks
Both types of devices have same CPU, hence from performance point of view this criterion doesn’t matter. My personal choice would be to configure all management features (DHCP server, CAPsMAN, …) on main unit, which in your case is the SXT. The reason is simple: all of these services are points of failure and my choice is to have single point of failure rather than multiple (and SXT will be point of failure any way because it’s going to be gateway to internet).
BTW, when configuring CAPsMAN one can choose local-forwarding either yes or no. The later choice means that all traffic to and from wireless clients will flow through CAPsMAN device. SXT 4G kit is not really a beast CPU-wise and anything more than minimum traffic would severely limit overall throughput of your system. So if you don’t have a really good reason to set local-forwarding=no, I strongly advise against it as long as CAPsMAN runs on a relatively weak device.