I live in a small house and I wanted to expand my wireless network so that I would have internet in every place of my home.
For this reason I recently bought myself two MikroTik routers:
MikroTik hAP AC and 2) MikroTik hAP AC lite
On the map you can see the way they are connected with each other.
Sadly, my knowledge is insufficient to get everything to work, I hope very much somebody can help me!
Even though everything is connected, some devices fail to get an IP address (some IP cameras are shown as offline).
If I set up separate networks for every of these devices everything works fine, but I want a single local network, so that no matter which network you connect to, you would have the possibility to wirelessly access the drive that is connected to the main router.
As of right now the MikroTik routers are set up as PTP Bridge CPE (Quickset) with access to the remote drive and IP cameras through LAN.
I don’t have a problem with resetting any of the routers and I can replace the ASUS router with a switch if needed.
What these steps will do: it will let the router become transparent, all traffic will be passed through the router as you would expect and there is no need for any further configuration. In your case, the DHCP-server that’s already in your network will start handing out IPs to clients connected to the MikroTik as well.
Side note: I’m not sure wheter the Asus WiFi-modem can be bridged as well, making it transparent, so it might work better if you replace it with a switch.
Beware of the asus router if you have flow control enable, I found the RT-AC68U will send out lot of pause frame when boot which cause the whole network stop working. I had help Asus debug it but they can’t find a solution, the only workaround is turn off flow control but Asus said they can’t do it, so you need to turn off flow control on the device connect to it instead.
I don’t know if this affect all asus router but you better check it out.
I agree. I think these steps should cover almost everything. The one thing I would add is take the Asus out of the network altogether. You don’t need it (per your diagram anyway).
bramwittendorp thank you very much!
I got the bridge working. Most of the devices get an IP address like 192.168.1.X (like the Zyxel router) and have internet access, but some devices get an IP like 192.168.88.X and don’t have access to the internet.
Zyxel’s clients get IP’s like 192.168.1.X, is it possible that devices that connect to the MikroTik router get IP’s like 192.168.2.X so it wouldn’t be the same?
Also when I set the bridge up, I couldn’t connect to the MikroTik router anymore to access the settings.
The ASUS router is needed because there is no possibility to connect the MikroTik directly to the Zyxel (cable is too short).
It seems that you haven’t disabled dhcp server on one of the mikrotiks.
The best way for you is remove all config, create a bridge containing all interfaces, and a dhcp-client to get an address for device itself.
Perform this on both of mikrotiks.
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