Capsman manager not a router - VLANs

RouterOS Wireless Networking
1

Hi,

Small problem that I’m trying to overcome.

I usually use Mikrotik that acts as a router (NATting, DHCP etc) as well as CapsMan manager and with this scenario my setups always work.

Right now I have a scenario were unifi gateway is the main device and a mikrotik router connected on LAN side acts purely as CapsMan manager. There are 100+ cAPs and it all works, they are getting IP from Unifi, all fine with local forwarding (each cAP has separate Wifi name, local DHCP etc)

The problem starts when I want to create a global guest network with tagged VLAN. Let’s say VLAN 50. This only works if I create a VLAN on CapsManager but all the traffic is routed via this device, it’s not routed directly to the unifi router.

Is there any way to get around it?

/caps-man datapath
add bridge=bridge_Internet client-to-client-forwarding=no name=datapath1 vlan-id=50 vlan-mode=use-tag

This works only if the CapsMan manager has:

/interface vlan
add interface=bridge_Internet name=vlan50 vlan-id=50
2

Is the guest network on the UniF–k router?

If so… use local forwarding.

3

Yes but then it will be getting IP from cAP, not from the Unifi, right?

4

No… put the DHCP server on VLAN 50 of the UniF–k router.

5

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: I didn’t know Ubiquiti rebranded their equipment.

6

I named it that back when I was working with Ubiquiti engineers and they couldn’t get their Midwest Distributors branches connected.

I said “UNIF–K”… and it stuck.

I had been calling it that since the good old days, when they actually told us to put the original UAP’s POE injectors into lamp timers!

7

Well it does not work.

If I turn on local forwarding with vlan tag I do not get IP from Ubiquiti.

If I do local forwarding + no tag I get IP from cap router (as expected).

Might be because the caps are routers with NATting, not a APs?

ADDED LATER:
Yup, tested with cap in bridge mode it works. So now the question:

Is there any way to configure capsman without reconfiguring each CAP?