Hello everyone,
I have a RouterBoard 532 with 3 ether port and 2 wlan mini pci.
I’m using ether1 for POE and to connect to my ADSL connection, ether2 will be my hotspot interface which I will connect to a switch and some APs.
I also would like to connect two outdoor antennas in the roof of the building using wlan1 and wlan2 as access points from the hotspot of the ether2, with the same login page, ip pool etc…
The hotspot will be controled by a Radius Server which is located in another location.
Is that possible?
Please can anyone tell me how do I do it?
Thanks to all
Claudio
Yes, conditionally. I use separate IP nets and pools for each wlan.
I have one unit that has two radios with an AP and VAP on each for a total of 4 hotspots. The APs use one radius server, and the VAPs use another.
The “how to do it” is in the docs under “Hotspot”. Well, except for the separate radius servers. I figured that out on my own. When you get that far, we will discuss that.
I do the hotspot install in steps:
1 - assign IPs
2 - assign routes and nat
3 - setup dns
Now, stop and try to ping by domain name:
/ping email.prolectron.net
DO NOT CONTINUE if it doesn’t work. Find out why and fix.
4 - setup dhcp server
5 - setup wifi card
Now, stop and connect to the wifi. If you get a good IP and can surf the net, you are good to go with the hotspot install.
DO NOT CONTINUE if it doesn’t work. Find out why and fix.
6 - install the hotspot
Thanks for you help SurferTim.
I used my wlan1 interface for the hotspot and just bridged all the interfaces wlan2, ether2 and ether3 together so now I have a hotspot up and running in all interfaces as a bridge.
wlan1 and wlan2 I connected outdoor antennas in the roof of the building, ether2 I used to provide hotspot service to the guests inside the hotel and ether3 I will connect another access point with another outdoor antenna. I installed it today in the building, did some tests connecting to all different interfaces and everything worked fine, got the login page and was able to login all the time.
Do you know how many concurrent users can be connected to the RouterBoard 333?
I’m not sure if I followed your step in the right order, but at the end it worked, since attending the Mikrotik Essentials course and the MUM last month in Krakow.
I didn’t stop reading about it.
Sometimes it gets a bit confusing as different people configure their routers in their own different ways.
But by reading all the posts and going to bed very late everyday I finally succeed.
Thanks again for your help
Next step will be to link this building to another building which is aproximately 400 mts away but doesn’t have internet conncetion and also have the same specificantions as the first router, for this I will put a third wlan to use for the bridging
Regards,
claudio