HOTSPOT Setup

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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ok setting up a hotspot is getting very confusing.

Is there a detailed step by step setup for hotspot.

Simply pressing setup under hotspot doesnt work.

here are the things im running into.

  1. In order to connect to the access point I have had to setup the wireless and then a Security Profile for the wireless or I dont get connected. Even with It I dont get an IP address anyways.

If Im using hotspot do I need a Security Profile under Wireless for them to connect???

  1. Once hotspot is setup.. where is this user login page that MT is supposed to redirect the user too. Without the wireless Security Profile I cant connect to the WAP card in the MT.

  2. Is there a detailed explanation of how to setup a Wireless AP that uses Hotspot.

I dont understand why we buy a MT router with this ability but there is no documentation on how to set it up…

Thanks in advance

Travis

2

Detailed HotSpot documentation, that includes step by step explanation of ‘ip hotspot setup’ is here,
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/ip/hotspot

If you want to apply additional security to wireless network, use security-profiles, but the same configuration required as for AP as for client.
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/interface/wireless.content#4.13.16

MikroTik documentation that describes RouterOS features is here,
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/

3

This part of the manual is pretty vague on some parts.

/interface wireless set wlan1 ssid=test frequency=2442 band=2.4ghz-b/g
mode=ap-bridge disabled=no

ok I do that but then many many pages later it talks about security profiles.

Ok after reading through all the stuff I dont need to know I find the security profile section and setup WPA-SPK TKIP. Now I authenticate, but I stil dont recieve an IP from MT I only get authenticated.

Where is the part about how to use DHCP to assign IP for your WAP and what routing do we have to setup???

After setting up the wireless and making a security profile what else is needed to be done. The manual says nothing about it, just leaves you hanging.

Travis

4
  • Add IP addresses to public interface, and local interface.
  • Set route configuration by adding gateway to public interface.
  • Add masquerade rule ‘ip firewall nat add action=masquerade out-interface=public_iface chain=srcnat’.
  • Set up DHCP server, ‘ip dhcp-server setup’, select wireless interface name,
    http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/ip/dhcp
5

I allready have the box setup as a firewall / router


LAN

  • 192.168.2.250
    WAN
  • dynamic (ADSL)

All boxes route through it no problem

DHCP pool is 192.168.2.50-192.168.2.100

I installed the Wireless and made a DHCPServer for WLAN1 using the regular DHCP_POOL

I see it connected in dhcp leases and grabs ip 192.168.2.100

I have a masq rule for 192.168.2.0/24 out-WAN


The wireless laptop gets an IP but it cannot ping the MT router at 192.168.2.250 or the server at 192.168.2.254. Since its getting an IP Range right in the DHCP POOL it should just work… what am I missing…