connect wirelessly

[lhyn]

Hi,

I have a mikrotik router 951Ui-2HnD and a biometric device. I connect the device wirelessly to the wifi of mikrotik and i set manually/statically the IP address on the biometric device. but when i check the dhcp leases on the router, i did not see the IP of the device and i can’t connect to it. is there any suggestion or someone who can help me in my issue?

thanks

[ZeroByte]

What do you mean by “manually / statically?”

If you mean that you configured the device itself to have a static IP address, then of course it won’t show up in leases because it never asks for a lease. It just connects and starts rolling with the IP config you told it to use.

However, I think it’s more likely that you mean you manually created a static lease in the DHCP server’s configuration.

If you get the client ID wrong, then that’s the most likely cause. The easiest thing to do is delete your manual entry, and then let the device get a dynamic lease just like any other device. Then go into the leases tab, edit the dynamic lease of your biometric device (double-click it) and in the window that pops up, there will be a “make static” button. Hit that button and then OK out. Re-open it and change the IP to be whatever you actually want the device to get, and then disconnect/reconnect the device from the WiFi and you’ll be done.

[lhyn]

@ZeroByte

What do you mean by “manually / statically?”

If you mean that you configured the device itself to have a static IP address, then of course it won’t show up in leases because it never asks for a lease. It just connects and starts rolling with the IP config you told it to use.

However, I think it’s more likely that you mean you manually created a static lease in the DHCP server’s configuration.

If you get the client ID wrong, then that’s the most likely cause. The easiest thing to do is delete your manual entry, and then let the device get a dynamic lease just like any other device. Then go into the leases tab, edit the dynamic lease of your biometric device (double-click it) and in the window that pops up, there will be a “make static” button. Hit that button and then OK out. Re-open it and change the IP to be whatever you actually want the device to get, and then disconnect/reconnect the device from the WiFi and you’ll be done.

Hi

what i mean with manually/statically is that i set the IP address on the device itself, there is no way to setup the device to get a dynamic lease. after i set the ip address on the device i try to ping the ip address but i get a request timed out

[Sob]

Make sure you entered the address on device correctly and there’s no typo. If not, perhaps the device does not like pings, so check if ARP works (you need to see non-zero entry for device’s IP address in IP->ARP). If it’s there, then check device’s settings, if there’s something about ping. If it’s not there, it could happen if you configured wireless interface with reply-only ARP mode. If that’s the case, you need to add ARP entry manually. If not, then it’s something else, but I’m not sure what.