Hotspot on 2 Interfaces

RouterOS Wireless Networking
1

Hi
I am pretty new to mikrotik, my question however is:
Is it possible to have Hotspot acting on two interfaces
In example: eth1=Connection to Internet
eth2 = Connection to wired Hotspot Clients
wlan1= Connection to wireless Hotspot Clients

If this is somehow possible could someone please explain
I Use Routerboard133 and RouterOS v3.9 on level 4 licence

thanks a lot

2

Hi,

You have to make a bridge and put ether2 and wlan1 In bridge.
Put a IP in the bridge.
You have to create the hotspot in the bridge.

good luck!
Martín.

3

Hi,

Yes you can do it.
I normaly use RouterBoards with three R52s connected to outdoor antennas and one of the LAN ports I use for the internal part of the building:
First I create a bridge then under bridge ports I add the interfaces I want to use for the hotspot and after I setup the hotspot and choose the bridge as the interface.
I don’t know how you configure your RBs but I find it much easier using winbox.

Good luck.

Claudio

4

I have exactly this configuration - a hotspot on ether 1 and a hotspot on WLAN 1 - but haven’t bridged them, just set up two hotspots on the router each with its own profile.

The ethernet hotspot and the wireless hotspot are very different functionally and I found it easier to treat them that way - eg. you probably don’t want cookie authentication on the ethernet. Moreover each hotspot has its own User-manager customer, prefix and credits which I find makes administration easier.

5

Hello

Thank you for the posts
It works with the bridge but this way i cannot make a firewall rule
that is protecting the PCs connected to eth1 (Same as Internet connection)
from beeing visible by the Hotspot Users.
It was working when only wlan1 instead of the bridge was used for the hotsopot

I know this is a kind of tricky setup but maybe someone can help

thanks a lot

6

Greetings!

Two questions:

  1. If those PCs are on the public net, should they not be responsible for their own security?
  2. Why can’t you make a firewall rule?

If you could be a little more specific without compromising your security, maybe we could be more helpful.

7

hello

I think, the way I did it now is the best for me
I made two hotspots with two different profiles and two different dhcp pools
This way firewall rules work and everything else works fine too
thanks for the help anyway