I have a RB201 1UiAS-2HnD-IN that I would like to configure as access point. It is connect by fiber to a switch and I see there is a link. Now it looks like there is no typical user interface where I could configure this fiber port to be a transparent LAN access. No DHCP, no routing, no firewall. Just as a plain WiFi" access point.
Is there an easy way to do this? Looking at the documentation I have the impression I need one week training to be able to fulfill this task.
If you follow the above you will end up with the two (normal and guest, this latter optional) wi-fiâs (wlan1 and wlan2) the SFP and the two bridges master ports in a bridge (all together) configuration, with ether1 kept separate.
Then it can be refined, but the base should work.
You will need to get Winbox and get minimally familiar with it, and - in order to more easily exchange info on the board - learn to use its terminal to export the configuration (and post it here for review), the instructions are here: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/forum-rules/173010/1
I vaguely remember having done a Mikrotik admin training some 20 (?) years ago. But that is all lost. So I went through the process of setting up the router that I finally received yesterday (after posting my initial question).
Managed to factory reset it by installing RouterOS 7.17.1 Stable
Managed to install the Wireless package that I had forgotten in the first go (Wonder why netinstall makes me reinstall routeros just to add a package)
Managed to enable the package
But it will not appear in the devices so I can start it up.
I generated the configuration file and I see that wlan1 is not there.
But strangely I have two Wireless menus. One called âWiFiâ and one called âWirelessâ.
If I go ito the âWireless â Wirelessâ menu I see the wlan1 interface. If I go into the WiFi Menu, I do not see the device. In none of the two menus I see a General tab as noted in the Mkrotik help pages.
So now I am lost. The router is fine in bridge mode. So all I need is enable that WiFi and I am done. Appreciate your help. myconfig.rsc (1.65 KB)
To explain, there are two âsets of driversâ, which one to use depends on the specific device model/processor, some devices only have the old drivers, some can use both, new devices only have the new one.
To make things simple the good Mikrotik guys managed to call the menues for them in different ways and both are present in Winbox even if only one is used.
Basically, âoldâ=âwirelessâ menu, ânew=wi-fiâ menu.
You should set the protocol to 802.11 (not nv2-nstreme), then you need to set /interface wireless security-profiles with authentication types, etc., now it is essentially empty:
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] supplicant-identity=MikroTik