Hap ac2 setup basics

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi there,

I am totally new to routing and setting up something more than simply plugging in my internet connection to the router lol.

What I am trying to achieve is to connect a Hap AC2 to my existing D-Link 825 router’s wireless (SSID: wifi1) and then from the Hap AC2 via ethernet to a server.

basically:

INTERNET → D-link → SSID:wifi1 → hap AC2 → Ethernet → Server

With the setup above I would like to have a device (laptop) on SSID:wifi1 be able to ssh into the server (shown at the end of the chain above).

I am so new to this that I don’t know what to even search for.

Please could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.
Vash

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I think you’re looking for something like this
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Connect_to_an_Available_Wireless_Network

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Hi Santy,

Thank you for pointing me there. I followed that tutorial and now I can ping 8.8.8.8 from the router, I can also connect to the RouterOS config screen from a laptop connected to the D-link router. For reference, I have the setup I am trying to achieve below.

INTERNET → D-link → SSID:wifi1 → hap AC2 → Ethernet → Server

So what has been achieved so far is the following:

  1. The HAP AC2 is connected via wifi AND receiving an IP (192.168.0.108) from the DLINK
  2. The HAP AC2 can ping (from winbox) to 8.8.8.8 and other devices on the network like my laptop

Since I don’t know much about networking please let me know where to troubleshoot and what further info to provide.

What I have looked for so far is the following:

  1. An IP on the server connected to the HAP AC2 via ethernet2 (it doesn’t seem to have been given one)
  2. Ping from the server returns “Network is unreachable”
  3. I cannot access the WebFig on 192.168.88.1 or 192.168.0.108
  4. I can access WebFig on 192.168.0.108 from a laptop connected to the DLINK

Here is an outline of what I did following the tutorial that you kindly shared:

  1. First I reset the router configuration and selected “No Default Config..”
  2. STEP 1: Created a security profile (Know it works because the HAP connects to DLINK)
  3. STEP 2: Delete wifi1 port from bridge. Could not achieve this because after config reset there is no bridge. So I tested this whole setup with a bridge I created added Ethernet2 (my server is connected on this point) and I also tested with no bridge at all.
  4. STEP 3: Add a DHCP client to wlan1. I think this worked because the HAP was assigned an IP (192.168.0.108) similar to the DLINK ranges.
  5. STEP 4: Set NAT Out Interface. Did it exactly as described in the tutorial and I don’t know how to check if this works.
  6. STEP 5: Change wlan1 to station and set security profile. Know this works after the next step
  7. STEP 6: Scan for wifi from DLINK and connect. This worked because it provides feedback in the window (connected to ess)

To me it seems like there is something unconfigured between the HAP AC2 and the server connected to it via ethernet. I think this because the server is not showing a normal IP address when I ifconfig (running ubuntu). Also if I ping, I just get “Network is unreachable”.

Please assist because I have spent about 12 solid hours on this :laughing: :open_mouth: :confused: :frowning: