I’m not sure if the question belongs here, but im hoping for a little help anyway! pls..
I have my main mikrotik router connected to the internet with the internal ip of
192.168.88.1
im currently running a hotspot and clients are getting address from dhcp
192.168.88.0/24
but i have serveral wireless-AP running in transparent mode (so clients still get IP from my main DHCP pool).
but these AP’s have static IP address like:
192.168.1.3
I would like to be able to monitor these devices from both my router and a pc in the main DHCP pool.
I think i have to assign a second IP to the ethernet of my internal network and perharps make some NAT rules? but im not to sure..?.?.?.?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Anyone any ideas?
Shall I put the AP’s in the same subnet? but i am concered as the network grows that 254 devices will not be enough. Any pointers in the right direction would be of great help!
you can add subnets to the same eth interface as the 192.168.88.0/24. you can make the whole subnet larger example a 16 bit subnet or maybe even just a 23 or 22 bit subnet. or you can route over your ap, the better option, in my opinion
When you say route over your AP?
do you mean on my wireless devices or on my RB?
The reason I have set my Access points to transparent is, i need the users to autotincate with my hotspot, and if my AP hands out IP’s then as soon as one user access the internet, every other user will also get access..
if you route over your ap then you still will have the hotspot page come up for every user. if you route and also use nat on your ap then your assumption is correct that every user will have free acces after first user logs on. read up on how to route.
to be honest with you , i am not sure but i am sure google can find plenty of tuturials on it for you. i can give an example but if you dont understand you wont be able to do it.
exp you have ether1 as wan on public ip
you have ether 2 as lan with a 192.168.3.0/24
you have hotpot set up and running and have NAT on mikrotik.
you have ap´s set up to with 2 interfaces one with 192.168.3.2 with gateway 192.168.3.1 your dns and all, turn off NAT on ap´s and set them to give out a different subnet exp. 192.168.4.0/24
all your aps connected to the MT will have 192.168.3.2-192.168.3.254
off the first ap that is set as above exp. all cpe will recieve a 192.168.4.2-192.168.4.254
you need to add a route in your mt for every ap that hands out a differerent subnet exp.
dst 192.168.4.0/24 gw 192.168.3.2
dst is the subnet the ap hands out and gw is the ip of the ap
