Setting up 411AH as a simple access point

I have a 411AH routerboard with a R52n-M wireless card attached. I have set-up the wireless interface so that I can see the SSID from my laptop, I have given interface ether1 an ip address via DHCP client (gets it’s ip address from an RB750) and have tried (and failed) to get interface wlan1 an address via DHCP.
To cut a long story short I can see ether1 on my network but not wlan1 (even with giving it a static ip in the same /24 subnet as ether1) and whilst I see wlan1 wirelessly I cannot get an ip address assigned to my laptop from it.

My experience with these is very limited (it’s part of my test bench to evaluate Mikrotik eqpt) so forgive me if I’ve left out a very basic setting.


Regards

Gavin

HI, it’s easy:


1- Get IP address to ether1 as you are doing, with dhcp client. OK
2- create a bridge in /bridge
3- add ports to the bridge in /bridge/ports (add ether1 and wlan1)
4- configure route to internet in /route. (create the route as destination 0.0.0.0/0 and gateway the ADSL router IP)
5- Configure DNS in IP/DNS/settings
6- configure dhcp server in the BRIDGE interface, if you need it…
7. configure wlan ass you need. Use ap-bridge mode, change SSID, security profile, etc.

It will work : D!

Your main problem was with the bridge ; ) No ip needed in the wlan, because the bridge will take the ether1 ip.

why Bridge and not NAT or routing?

why not?

I think he has a DHCP server working on the network and want these IPs in the laptop… I think my solution is the easy way to do this. : P