I have been attempting to use Ubiquiti 6, nanostation 2’s connected to an RB1100AH as a hotspot with problems. I set the nano’s with a static IP within the static range in the router, I added the radios as virtualAP’s and tried everything I can think of and the only way I get a link is set the radio in AP-WDS. One big problem is getting an IP from the dhcp pool in the RB1100.
Bye the way, I am running a radius server with the welcome screen in the RB1100 and signup page on the server which I am even having issues seening the hotspot login page that is stored on the router.
Maybe I am simply over thinking the whole thing. Any ideas?
First off if you are setting up a wireless system with two or more acess points, do not set the acess points as auto IP.
Are these APs wired to your router or are you connecting by wireless?
Setup a management network on your router (IE 20.20.2.1/23) then assign this IP range to your access points.
Then if you are wired set the APs to AP with no DHCP.
If connected wirelessly, how far away and how are you connecting to the router?
Now on the same either port, (port2), set up an IP range for your customers (IE 12.10.12.1/24) and when your customers connect to the AP, they will get the 12.12.12.x.
I want to use 6 nanostation 2’s to act as a hotspot, but I am having a problem getting an IP address on a laptop or tablet from the mickrotik. The dhcp range in the router is 10.5.50.0/24 and the nano was set to dhcp but got its address from the modem of 192.168.0.22, so I put a static of 10.5.50.3 on the nano and it is set to access point - wds. The address is outside of my dhcp range which is set to 10.5.50.20-10.5.50.253 to avoid any address conflicts. This dhcp server is in my mikrotik RB-1100AH router.
I watch the dhcp leases on the router and I can see the computer attempting to get a address, but it will not lock in leaving me to think there maybe an issue in the nano setup. Any ideas??