Making a simple Wireless AP

RouterOS Beginner Basics
1

I’ll admit… I’m just a bit lost and I need some guidance.

I’ve got a RouterBoard RB411 (upgraded to a level 4 license for AP functionality) with a R52N wireless card.

My network consists of a 192.168.1.0/24 address space and I have assigned eth1 an address of 192.168.1.16. My DHCP server sits on 192.168.1.1 and I am trying to get a DHCP-RELAY to that server, but it’s not working. Here is the output from /ip address print:

[admin@MikroTik] > /ip address print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 #   ADDRESS            NETWORK         BROADCAST       INTERFACE                                                                                    
 0   192.168.1.16/24    192.168.1.0     192.168.1.255   ether1

And the output from /interface wireless print:

[admin@MikroTik] > /interface wireless print
Flags: X - disabled, R - running 
 0  R name="wlan1" mtu=1500 mac-address=00:0C:42:61:C0:E2 arp=enabled interface-type=Atheros 11N mode=ap-bridge ssid="MikroTik" frequency=5180 
      band=5ghz-onlyn scan-list=default wds-mode=disabled wds-default-bridge=none wds-ignore-ssid=no default-authentication=yes 
      default-forwarding=yes default-ap-tx-limit=0 default-client-tx-limit=0 hide-ssid=no security-profile=default compression=no

dhcp-relay:

[admin@MikroTik] > /ip dhcp-relay print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid 
 #   NAME                                                  INTERFACE                                                  DHCP-SERVER     LOCAL-ADDRESS  
 0   relay1                                                ether1                                                        192.168.1.1        0.0.0.0

I can not get my wireless clients to pull an IP from the DHCP server at 192.168.1.1. I think I might be missing something here, but it’s not so obvious to me!!!

2

Forget relay. Create a bridge between the AP and your Ethernet port, assign an IP to the bridge, and wada away you go.

3

That makes sense… but I’m still not able to pull an IP :frowning:

Here’s what I have now:

[admin@MikroTik] > /interface print
Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave 
 #     NAME                                                                                                              TYPE             MTU   L2MTU
 0  R  ether1                                                                                                            ether            1500  1526 
 1  R  wlan1                                                                                                             wlan             1500  2290 
 2  R  bridge1                                                                                                           bridge           1500  1526 

[admin@MikroTik] > /ip address print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 #   ADDRESS            NETWORK         BROADCAST       INTERFACE                                                                                    
 0   192.168.1.17/24    192.168.1.0     192.168.1.255   bridge1                         

admin@MikroTik] > /interface bridge print
Flags: X - disabled, R - running 
 0  R name="bridge1" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1526 arp=enabled mac-address=00:0C:42:48:9C:DE protocol-mode=none priority=0x8000 auto-mac=yes 
      admin-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 max-message-age=20s forward-delay=15s transmit-hold-count=6 ageing-time=5m 

[admin@MikroTik] > /interface bridge port print
Flags: X - disabled, I - inactive, D - dynamic 
 #    INTERFACE                                                 BRIDGE                                                 PRIORITY PATH-COST  HORIZON   
 0    ether1                                                    bridge1                                                0x80     10         none      
 1    wlan1                                                     bridge1                                                0x80     10         none

Theoretically… this should be all that is needed?

4

I would think so.

5

Is your dhcp server on the bridge?

/ip dhcp-server print
6

Why would a simple AP need a dhcp-server?