Clone Wireless ap across ethernet?

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Apologies I’m a complete beginner here and I haven’t got any hardware as yet as I’m just exploring the feasibility of an idea.

We have a camera with an in-built Wireless access point for control (but it has no wired ethernet connectivity), This camera is built into a system which has a carbon fibre structure and as such the wireless access is limited. We do have a Cat5e interface available into the system.

My plan is to install a Routerboard product(ie “mAP 2n”) within the system adjacent to the camera and a second “mAP 2n” outside of the system and connect them together via the Cat5e.

I’ve chosen the “mAP 2n” since the external router can also act as a PoE injector in order to power the internal router.

So essentially I want to clone the wireless access point of the camera at the external “mAP 2n” router.

1st question is this possible?

I’m lacking in terminology to use to describe this set-up, some pointers would be gratefully received.

2nd How?

3rd I’m concious that the Wireless AP and the router will be very close, Is it possible within RouterOS to reduce the power of the wireless transceiver of the “mAP 2n” adjacent to the camera? I’m not able to modify the Wireless AP of the Camera. Should I be worried?

Regards

Oliver

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Clonning ap without cooperation with it especially when you cannot manage it so you don’t know how it behaves is a nonsense. Map can do what you have asked but you have to know how to set the camera’s Ap. I would suggest not to build networks based on such obscure things like camera managed Ap sounds to me.

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Perhaps a more clever way to do this would be to make the “camera mAP” into a wireless client of the camera’s AP, and then route the camera IP network to the mAP:

Suppose your LAN is using 192.168.88.x as the interior network, and the camera is using 192.168.100.x as its network.

Make the “camera map” have a static IP on the lan, e.g. 192.168.88.2/24 and a DHCP client on the wlan1 interface.
Then you would put a masquerade rule on the camera-mAP with out-interface=wlan1 and a static route in your main router: dst=192.168.100.0/24 gateway=192.168.88.2

Then, whatever IP address the camera is using, you can just open that IP directly in your browser or camera-viewing application.