Routerboard only as an access point

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Well, in my home network I have two routerboard devices.
The first one, is the WAN router (RB2011UiAS) and the second one is the access point (RB951Ui-2HnD) since the wan router doesn’t have antennas for wireless.
But I do not know how to configure the AP Router as an access point only.

I have in WAN Router the address: 10.10.1.0/24 and the AP the address: 10.10.2.0/24
I want to all connected devices to AP Router receive DHCP from the first router and want them in the same ip address range.

I tried several things, like dhcp client on wlan interface, tried dhcp relay but no successful.
Can anyone please help me?

Also I’m using masquerade rule in NAT on the AP Router, but don’t want that too but if I delete the rule wireless doesn’t work.

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Remove config from the 951, set the wifi interface as Ap bridge and bridge all interfaces into common bridge.

3

What he said… basically remove everything from the 951… then just bridge everything…

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On the bridge configurate DHCP-client

5

Not necessary. There can be also many other things configured but they are not so much essential.

6

Very thanks, I’ll try that today

by the way, the ethernet cable is connected on ether1 which is wan port on my 951, I read to put the ethernet cable on ether2 (but this suggestion was for general routers, not mikrotik in specific), should I do it? And dhcp client isn’t necessary?

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Dhcp client will just obtain an ip and dns and default route for the device itself. The device can will work as Ap for the clients regardless of that. When you remove the configuration there will be no wan/lan ports as all ethernets will be just ethernets. Nothing more. Making the special settings for each port gives the role to it. No role without the settings. So there will be no difference which ethernet you will use for what connection when they are bridged. Just take note that you should set administrative mac address to the bridge to have it fixed and not changing according the lowest connected port mac address.

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I tried everything above and doesnt work.
When I try to connect with my phone it gets me “Authentication problem”

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So how the wireless is configured?

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I resetted all the configurations.
I configured the wireless interface with the ssid I want, etc.
Connected the ethernet cable into ether1
created a bridge and added all the ethernet ports into that bridge

at this point nothing worked

and then I tried to insert admin. mac address but still dont work

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And is it connected to other router lan side? Is the wifi in Ap bridge mode? Paste export command result here…

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My bad, I had caps lock on when inserting the password of the wifi.
Everything is working good now, very thanks!!

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Very glad to read it. Nice job. Now start to think whether your Ap needs ip, time or other things and add them one by one…