Hi guys, I work as an assistant IT technician, and I require assistance.
I am trying to reconfigure an existing RouterOS router at a location where I am employed, and after struggling for almost 3 days to no result, I have decided to seek assistance.
Not sure what version of RouterOS is installed, will have to check that when I get to work, however I do know the board is a RB341, and I depend on Winbox to get things done, as I have no terminal knowledge. The situation is as follows, the wireless network was mess when I started, there are several access points transmitting individual networks, but each access point was also transmitting, networks meant access points in other locations, so to correct this, I now have set all access points to broadcast the same SSID, therefore creating a large Wireless network, instead of individual wireless networks. However, the Mikrotik Router, is the one I am still having issues with, once renamed I lost both internet & LAN connectivity and prior to my meddling, users connected to that AP were unable to access resources on the network outside the RouterOS AP. Further checks showed that the DHCP pool assigned to WLAN1, was issuing 192.168.x.x IP addresses, whereas the main network was issuing 10.x.x.x addresses. Further complicating the matter, is the fact that the Router was set up by the external IT support technician, and is the DHCP server for the network, and should the DHCP server fail due to my tampering, the results will be catastrophic, and attempting to create a bridge between Ethernet, and Wireless, actually caused the DHCP assigned to the LAN pool to stop functioning, thankfully I noticed this before any harm was done.
Here is the configuration
Modem (configured in Bridge mode)
Netgear Prosafe FVS336Gv3 (Gateway) - 10.0.0.2
RouterOS RB431 (DHCP Server/WLAN AP) - 10.0.0.234
TP-Link EAP APs. for the majority of Wireless connections.
There are switches throughout the building which carries internet via Cat6, to most locations, however there are some places without cable points, which are usually served by the RouterOS AP, now once and for all how do I create a WLAN interface, that doesn’t interfere with the DHCP configuration, and that has all the resources on the network (printers, NAS etc), and obviously the internet without bringing now the entire network, please provide detailed instructions, via Winbox preferably, one I forgot to mention, is that I don’t have the admin password for the prosafe, so I am unable to make changes on the Gateway interface should it be required.
Thanks so much, and apologies for the long message