Theoretically practical setup

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I have one question regarding setup and what I would like to do.
I have Idea creating lab for some playing, and it is like this.
On Computer WLAN interface has IP: 192.168.1.x and it is going trought mikrotik WAP on Internet and network. That is part wich is constant.
Ethernet is connected to switch and it has IP of 10.10.100.1 On that switch are connected 2 HAP Lite’s. When I run winBox with static IP of 10.10.100.1 I can’t see neither of HAP’s, but when i switch to DHCP i see them both. Should I see them by mac adress even if they don’t have same IP?
Third is there should be CHR in play, and it is installed and NIC is bridged with ethernet but winbox doesn’t see it either :astonished:
Can somebody point me in right direction since I would like to have wlan with 192.168.1 as home network, and 10.10.100 for playing and testing.

p.s. Can I set up CHR as CAPSMan controller and HAP Lites as CAPs for testing purposes. I don’t need config, just would it work, and how to see tem on another network :astonished:

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Yes. Chr works as capsman.

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OK but, why I can’t see them on switch that is connected on NIC with IP 10.10.10.1

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Maybe some routing / bridging misconfiguration in your network…

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OK here is doodlw of what I want to have

There is DHCP on wireless (192.168.1.2) and that is connection to my network and I want it to be like that.
Now I want to add second network 10.10.10.x wich is lab netwok an it doesn’t have way out for now and it coexists with wlan network. When wired lan is on dhcp it sees normally both Devices but that kills my local lan (wlan) and when I add static IP to ethernet of 10.10.10.0 winbox doesn’t see anything, and i can’t figure out why.
It should find it by layer 2 since they are wired into it, or I an missing something?

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Probably some devices are catching dhcp from the 10.x network and getting wrong default route to wrong gateway. What does your “pc” blackbox?

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How dou you mean blackbox?

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Ok. So white box. If you wish. I mean the unknown pc box…

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O that, I forgot about that. That is CHR wich is bridged to ethernet port in virtualbox

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Don’t bridge those two networks. Make the chr with 2 interfaces and route between those networks in it.

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do you have example how to do that? I susspect you mean I add route on CHR?

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Sure. Or you can split the network on any other device if it is easier for you. You just need a device that has two interfaces not in common bridge, one with 192.x address and one with 10.x address. If it is not a gateway you need to put a routing rule into the gateway sending packets to that device if the destination is in other network.