Hi everybody,
I am fairly new to the networking topic and I probably don’t understand some concepts as I can’t get my access point working.
The network is approximately a hAP connected to a switch in the 10.10.10.0/24 network. (Actually it is a SwOS switch connected to a hEX via trunk port which is then connected to the internet router – but that should not matter as the 10.10.10.0/24 network itself works fine.)
Now I want to have a Wireless access point to the 10.10.10.x network. So the wireless clients should not use a subnet but obtain a 10.10.10.x IP as well.
What I would expect to be sufficient for that use case is the following configuration (please correct me where I am wrong):
- Bridge containing ether1 and wlan1 in order to connect the wired to the wireless network
- Static IP on the bridge; only used to configure the hAP and for the hAP to have internet access
- Security profile for wlan1
Also, if I understand correctly:
- I could put a DHCP client on eth1 instead of a static IP, but it makes no functional difference
- I do not need NAT/masquerade because the wlan1 clients are not in a subnet with a DHCP server
- I do not need to configure a route (/ip route add gateway=10.10.10.1 distance=1) because the router would just send packets from wlan1 on to eth1
With these settings I can access devices in the 10.10.10.0/24 network, but I do not have internet access. Why is that?