Now thing is, in that switch there are 11 computers in offices. Wich need to use internet on daily basis.
But thing is, can I connect normal access point to switch and make it work as a hotspot?
so who ever connect to that access point get’s mikrotik hotspot page?
Small topology:
Internet >eth1> RouterOS PC >eth2> Switch > (11 ports office computers)
--------------------------------> Siemens SX763 to act as a hotspot?
but I dont want that those 11 computers get’s login screen.
Possible?
I have done this before, where I would setup the regular office computers on a different internal subnet.
So hotspot users are 10.50.7.2 to 254 on the DHCP
Office PCs are setup as static IP address of 192.168.120.100 to 254 (statically setup)
Make sure to setup the internal to have two gateway ip address of 10.50.7.1 and 192.168.120.1 with your masquerade rule on.
Then on the hospot under the ip bindings set the address part to 192.168.100.0/24 and change the type to bypass. Now all IP addresses that were statically setup on the address range would be bypassed. But… If this is a secure environment where coffee house users are connecting then you would not want the office PCs and the coffee shop users on the same side of the network. But for a non critical place this would work fine.
Or…
You can have all of the MAC addresses entered in the hotspot–> ip binding–> MAC Address with type set to bypass for each PC’s MAC address.
Ideally you would want to separate your hotspot users from any other internal network usage but if it is a fairly low priority network at home then sure this setup would work. You could do it all securely but you would have to but some firewall rules into place to drop any other address or you could VLAN tag tour other NICS and setup a different DHCP server on the same network. Possibilities are all there.
