Hello all, I feel kind of dumb coming here and asking such a basic question but I can’t figure it out for the life of me. A little background; my (rural) ISP around here uses these little routers as antennas for a point-to-multipoint setup. Well, I’ve gotten a hold of 2 of their old antennas (customers that switched ISP’s) and a while back I repurposed one as an AP to use on my property since regular consumer routers built-in antennas barely go outside the home and I need hundreds of feet outside. I set one up and it worked pretty good after I found this:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Making_a_simple_wireless_AP
Used it for many months. Recently, I decided to re-do some of my home network, adding a second consumer-grade router and running some new cables so I thought I would take a peek at the RB100 AP I had setup. Well, I changed something major in the settings and it wouldn’t respond, even send out a WiFi signal anymore. So I dismantled it and brought it in. I’m able to open up Winbox and I got the WiFi working but I can’t get it to work fully. Messing with DHCP Server/Client and IP settings I can get it to see and connect to my router but anyone that connects to the RB100’s WiFi doesn’t get an IP from the main router.
I know this is something utterly simple but I feel I need to start from scratch as I’ve ran in circles trying to adjust every setting. I’m (obviously) not a professional with this stuff but I do setup some home networks with basic equipment. I think I just need to be pointed in the right direction. Is there a way to factory reset this device? My ISP changed the admin password and I only have access to a “write” user, not “full”. I can’t reset configuration via terminal.
think… interfaces.. what interface. physical or viritual is connected to what? and what do I want to recive.
eg. I have ether1 connected to the switch give the dhcp ip.. ok.. then ether1 needs to be the dhcp client interface. If the ether1 is connected to a bridge, ok.. then the bridge is the interface.
I did try to think logically about that, believe me, I must have spent over an hour, maybe two, messing with it. I setup a DHCP client on ether1 and then a DHCP relay on the WiFi interface, didn’t work. Then I tried a DHCP server on WiFi, that didn’t work. There’s a bridge setup but I have no idea what that does, is it supposed to bridge the WiFi and ether1 ports? The bridge that is currently setup was there while I had this antenna/router working so it can’t be the issue.
I’m halfway thinking of trying to do a netinstall of 3.6 (currently on 3.4, license is for 3.x only) and starting from a clean slate. Problem is, I don’t have a serial cable…
Could you or someone explain what basic things I need to do in order for wireless clients to access the antenna and be forwarded to my main router (192.168.1.1)?
I got it 
Basically, I did need the bridge. Here’s what I had to do:
- Set IP for LAN interface (you only have to fill in the address section) to 192.168.1.140.
- Setup DHCP relay on WLAN interface, the DHCP server IP you set to your main router, in my case 192.168.1.1 then local address to your LAN interface which for me is 192.168.1.140.
- BRIDGE!!! I made the mistake of thinking the WLAN and LAN were hooked together like a switch. You have to connect them. Make a Bridge then go to the Ports tab and add the LAN and then add the WLAN.
I can now have wireless clients access this RB100, get an IP from my main router and view the Internet.
Here’s a page that helped me sort this out (the Mikrotik Wiki was pretty useless): http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r26914366-