RB1100 multi port setup for hotspot

Hi, one of our clients just got the RB1100 and I am having a few issues/questions regarding the setup.

Goal:

  1. Setup ether port 1-8 for hotspot usage
  2. Setup ether port 9 and 10 for WAN connections
  3. WAN connections either load balanced or distributed by service/protocol


    Solution to 1: OK, I setup ether port 1 for hotspot, I get the login page and I am able to login (with RADIUS).
    How am I supposed to setup port 2-8 to do the same thing. Assign IP, show login page, login ..

I achieved this by doing the following, but I am not sure if this is the correct way:
I use ether1 as the ‘Master Port’ for ether2 to ether5 (switch2). But when I try to do this for ether6 (switch1), I get an error message as ether6 is not part of switch2. I then use ether6 as another Master Port and assign ether7 and ether8 to it.
So, I duplicated the whole hotspot setup starting with a ‘DHCP Server’ for ether6 using the same IP pool as ether1. Then I add another hotspot server with interface ether6, same IP pool as the first hotspot server. I use the ‘Hotspot Setup’ button and step through it with the only difference to the first hotspot server being the Hotspot Interface set to ether6. Strange, at the end of the ‘Hotspot Setup’ the hotspot server shows a value of 2 for ‘Addresses per MAC’. I then modify these settings by using the same Profile ‘hsprof1’ as for the the first server and delete the newly generated hsprof2.
Huh …
Is that really the way to do this? Or do I just have to put port 1-8 into the same bridge?

To 2: Both WAN connections are working, now I like to distribute the traffic and e.g. shut off one connection after the monthly GB limit has reached … Is there a way to do this? Or with RouterOS, what are the ways to achieve this?

To 3: I presume there are several options available here too?

ROS 4.10 / FW: 2.27

BTW, in the Switch window I get switch2 for ether 1 to 5 and switch1 for ether6-10 and in ‘Interfaces’ they are referred as switch1 and switch0.

Thanks!

Bridge both master-ports and put Hotspot on bridge interface.

Thanks! Will try that.

I put ether1 and ether6 (master ports) into the bridge. Now I see in the Bridge configuration under Ports “Role: designated port” and for ether6: “Role: disabled port” and the entry is marked with the ‘I’ (inactive I guess). Is that the way it is supposed to be?
Have not yet received feedback if it is working.
Thanks