Hi everyone,
Thanks for the insight you provided and also thanks to a couple of days of tinkering with it, I think I got the basics and managed to get quite confident in navigating and updating the configs.
I did even managed to completely reset and configure it from scratch without locking myself out!
Following another thread on the forum (http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/how-to-create-most-basic-vlan/153816/1) I was able to get the VLAN up and running without much trouble.
I’m in a situation where anything connected to the MikroTik (VLAN or not) is able to reach internet and navigate.
Now, the last steps, which is also the first if you look at this thread.
In the initial post, I wanted to have one or more ports being basically “a switch”, getting (or setting) an IP from the “WAN” subnet.
holvoetn provided some nice suggestions with the steps of using a dedicated bridge, which, worked partially.
Basically following the suggestions, I was able to get an IP in the same range as the WAN but everything else (so the interfaces on the main bridge) were cut off and no more connections from them.
Not sure if this was my fault or maybe some firewall rules missing.
What would the process for this using the VLANs? If possible at all of course…
What I would like to achieve is:
ISP Router (192.168.1.x) > MikroTik (192.168.1.250) > Configure one interface (say ether10) as 192.168.1.251 > Attach an AP to ether10 to be reachable from ISP subnet
Every device attached to the AP on 192.168.1.251 should get an IP in the 192.168.1.x subnet.
I’ve already got the AP setup in such a way, so there is no issue there but it’s connected directly to the ISP router / modem. I would like to connect it to the MikroTik.
And if you’re asking why such complicated design, two reasons:
- I’d like to get better networking skills (bragging right? maybe…)
- the AP will be the connections for most of the IoT stuff in the home and I’d like to have some kind of monitor (which the current ISP router does not provide)
If you say “this is going to be difficult”, bring it on, I’m not running away at the first issue / difficulty. If you say “this is impossible”, I’ll be a little bit disappointed but well, if it’s not possible, it’s not possible.
Cheers everyone for the help so far (and for the future)!