I’m running a LAN and Wifi network with Hotspot enabled.
My walled garden is working nicely and I’ve set my local net
to be accessible via the “IP List” window. Now I think I did it
correctly because I can view my windows shared folders. I’m
also running a DC hub for communication purposes.
The setup is basicaly this:
Internet router - Mikrotik router - switch and then LAN computers and
wifi access points. So technically you don’t have to go THRU the mikrotik
router to gain access to the other pc’s and your cap is not effected when
transferring data between these computers.
Now the problem comes in that these connections are not stable. I keep
having to reconnect my shared folders and also my DC connections.
Has any one encountered this before? Is there a quick fix of some sort?
I found the “Disable default forward” setting, thank you channingzou. But I was wondering…
Firstly - what will this do to the connections?
Secondly - will this have an impact at all on the wired LAN also connected to the same hotspot server? (wifi and lan interfaces bridged)
if so, how?
First, where do I find the “Universal Client” setting? And second, how will taking away the address pool effect my current running network? Will every body just get there IP’s from the DHCP server and be “happy”?
Thank you so much for the input guy’s - I really hope to get this working as it is a quite important feature to have working on a local network… If it wasn’t for the fact that I have clients on the network, I’d jump straight into testing your suggestions. Nut allas, I’ll wait for your input before I make some people unhappy here - if you know what I mean…
“address-pool (name | none; default: none) - IP address pool name for performing one-to-one NAT. You can choose not to use the one-to-one NAT
none - do not perform one-to-one NAT for the clients of this HotSpot interface”
As described in the Mikrotik Documentation.
So I did a one-to-one NAT google search and came up with this:
“One-to-one NAT is a way to make systems behind a firewall and configured with private IP addresses (those reserved for private use in RFC 1918) appear to have public IP addresses.”
Now I kind of knew that this is was “NATting” does…but I’m guessing that in the case of Hotspot it tells all the other clients connected to the router that your IP is that of the routers - even though they are all connected on the local side of the router.
Am I on the right track here? Because in general, NAT has already been taken care of in the Firewall window and it is all starting to make quite a bit of sense now…
