I tried to find answer on this in documenation and on the forum, but without success. I hope this is not repeated question.
Is is possible to setup hotspot service on several ethernet of wifi interfaces in one machine at the same time? For example I want to have a machine able to connect wired and wireless users using just one box, so I would like to put two ethernet and one wifi card in it and enable hotspot on one ehternet and one wifi card. If not possible, can you please tell me if this is going to be possible in some newer release of Mikrotik RouterOS? Thank you in advance.
Has anyone tried this? I can’t believe I got no answers on this, am I the only one with this problem?
Reading the documentation, I would say this should be possible, although I haven’t tried to set it up yet. Please if someone can confirm, then I will play with setup. Thank you in advance.
I’m also in the process of setting up a hotspot system, and I just read that " You can run completely different HotSpot configurations on different interfaces" here: http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/ip/hotspot
Maybe I didn’t understand your question correctly but I’m running hotspot in my routers both os2.8 and os2.9 . I bridge 3 wireless cards and the hotspot is running in bridge interface.
Yes, you understood correctly, it is good to know it is possible to run hotspot on a bridge interface. Thank you. I want one ethernet and one wireless card in one machine to be hotspots, but I can just put bridge over these two and run hotspot on the bridge interface, correct? Great.
You are maybe right, but I don’t need completely separate hotspot parameters for these two parameters. I just need two kinds of clients (wireless and wired) to connect to this hotspot. If it can work with bridge interface, like valony says, my problem is solved. But, I agree with you regarding separate hotspot environment on two interfaces, it seems to be possible just with 2.9.
Do you run hotspot also on bridge interface or somehow else? If it is another way, can you please drop a snippet of setup commands here? Thank you in advance.
All what I did was so simple
in the hotspot setup process through winbox, I set the hotspot interface to Private(ether2) and proceed with the normal steps and used 10.5.50.1 for Private hotspot server.
Then i ran the setup process again, but this time I used the Wlan(wlan) interface in the hotspot interface and set 10.5.51.1 for my interneal wireless network.
That’s all
If you have more question, here is my e-mail
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In version 2.8.x, your second hotspot setup rewrote most of rules regarding first hotspot setup. I am not sure about 2.9.x versions and this hotspot setup wizard. Maybe you should first bridge these two interfaces and then put hotspot on the bridge interface itself.
in 2.8.x I have tried the most scenarios that are posible two ethernet , ethernet and wireless seperate setup and bridge two interfaces and setup the hotspot in bridge interface itself and worked perfect expect in 2.8.4 which slow down everything, in 2.9 I haven’t tried with more then one interface.
