I am having a hotspot wifi in the main router called (Wifi) which have separate dhcp than the wired one.
Router IP: 192.168.1.1
LAN: 192.168.0.X
HOTSPOT DHCP: 172.16.20.X
Anyhow, I am having 2 more routers (which they are connected to the same lan of the main router.
I want to connect these two routers to the same hotspot only, I mean only the virtual ap for hotspot.
Router #2: 192.168.1.2
Router #3: 192.168.1.3
All routers are Mikortik… is there any way to make EOIP for only hotspot between these routers?
The benefit that I will use roaming for users between these 3 routers.
“Simple” way, assuming those additional APs just run one SSID (no virtual ones):
1.- Connect those 2nd and 3d AP to say, ether3 and ether4. Make sure those ethers aren’t slaves.
2.- Create a new bridge, add ether3, ether4 and the VirtualAP wireless interface
3,. Change the hotspot server to run over that bridge.
If those 2nd and 3d AP run Virtual SSIDs: use VLANs, same approach.
Then you have two options, either CAPsMAN or VLANs.
To use VLANs, on 2nd and 3d AP:
1.- Remove wlan device from any bridge.
2.- Create a VLAN interface on the ether interface going to main router.
3.- Create a bridge and add the wlan and vlan interfaces to it.
Let’s say AP2 has vlan id 102 and AP3 103.
On main Router:
1.- Create two VLANs on the ether interface coming from the APs, one for each 102,103 VLAN ID.
2.- Put these two VLANs and the rest of interfaces the hotspot should be run over on a bridge.
3.- Make sure the hotspot is set to run over that bridge.
3.- “Move” any IPs/DHCP server related to the hotspot to that bridge.