I have a couple of questions about running a hotspot.
We have a RouterBOARD 133 outside in a nice Acconet enclosure, connected to the ADSL router via ethernet (and powered via ethernet, which works brilliantly), which provides coverage for most of the area required, apart from the last little bit. Basically what we want to do is connect a Netgear AP via ethernet to the ADSL router, and have it forward the packets to the RouterBOARD (i.e. set the Netgear’s default gateway to the RB) where the hotspot takes over and it works as usual.
Basically, how can we achieve this on the RouterOS side of things, i.e. get everything coming in from the ethernet interface to be forwarded to the hotspot running on the wireless interface? We have tried setting up a hotspot on both ether1 and wlan1, however as soon as we do that we lose all connectivity to the RouterBOARD.
Apologies if this is a stupid/frequently asked question, but I could not find a similar situation when searching the forum.
Basically the way the Hotspot works it to capture all IP traffic on an interface and direct the user to a splash page (I’m sure you know this). So to do what you propose you will need to use an unused Ethernet port on the routerboard and connect the AP to that, if that is not possible (I cannot remember how many ports the 133 has) you will need to us VLANs and a VLAN capable switch to connect the AP to.
THe RB133 does indeed have several LAN ports however it is mounted outside in a weatherproof enclosure, and has only one cable going in to provide both power and ethernet, so adding an additional one is not really an option.
We have purchased a HP ProCurve 1700-8 managed switch which supports VLANs amongst other things; can you provide a configuration example, or verify that I am not missing anything here:
tell switch that (e.g.) port 1 and port 2 are on VLAN 2
set up AP on IP address 10.0.0.254 (example, but different to wireless hotspot IP range & ether1 IP range)
add a VLAN to ether1 as 10.0.0.253
plug AP into port 1 & RB into port 2
plug internet connection into (e.g.) port 3
pray
I have not used VLANs before and would like to check that there is nothing that I am missing before going out and putting this switch in place!
I’ve not used VLANs much either, so 1st thing take a backup of your working MT router! then start messing. I would only assign IPs to thing you want to manage and not in the same range as the MT HS.
