Hi,
I’m new to mikrotik products and I’ve found the initial setup for what I would have imagined a common/basic setup to be very difficult, and at times even ‘buggy’ in terms of how the HW/SW responded. If anyone here has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
The ultimate goal is pretty simple - I have an internet connection I want to distribute to 2 end-points. The HW setup is:
Internet connection (via modem/Router) ↔ SXT SA5 ac ↔ 2x SXT lite5 ac ↔ end-point router/computer.
Before I go putting the HW outside I wanted to test it / set it up to do this I had the following high-level plan:
- Configure the SA5 to be an AP (ap-bridge with bridge between wlan, eth0)
This gets an IP from the internet modem/router. Is a DHCP server for the CPEs - Configure the lite5 to be a CPE (station, with bridge between wlan, eth0)
This gets and IP from the SA5.
While trying to set ths up, I found a few items that were pretty strange (perhaps bugs?)
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Before starting I set my laptops lan port to be a static ip in the same range as the default IP of the devices - I set it to 192.168.88.100. Is this required?
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Setting up the SA5 - connected the device directly to a laptop and logged in via the default IP with winbox
- Used the quick-settings to set it up as HomeAP, and filled in the boxes to be a fixed IP and be a DHCP server.
- immediately lost connection via winbox
- when searching for devices to connect to the MAC shows but the ip is 0.0.0.0 and not the fixed number
- why would the ip be 0.0.0.0 if I had set it as static?
- the quick-settings seem to NOT assign an IP to the bridge - is this a bug?
- Connecting via MAC address did not always work (often received a timeout error). Had to reset to factory settings.
- Could not get quick settings to work - the only way to get the AP setup was by using a youtube tutorial on setting up an AP
- Setting up the lite5
- The quick settings page shows detected SSIDs - but did not show my AP (even though all other wireless devices I have show it!). It appears it only shows 2GHz band SSIDs here - is this a bug?
- This means quick settings cannot be used to connect to 5GHz band devices, even though lite5 is intended for 5Ghz
I was able to manually setup the lite 5 to connect to the SA5, and I could ping www.google.com from the lite5 console.
My laptop was connected directly to the lite5 - however try as I might, I could not get the lite5 to provide/pass the internet connecton to the laptop
So the main questions
- Are the items I mention above ‘bugs’ with the quick settings?
- What would be the recommended way for setting up a simple AP and CPE - any links to tutorials would be great.
- In terms of IP assignment - what is the recommended way to do this.:
Internet/router: DHCP server, ip range 192.168.1.0/24
SA5: eth0 = dhcp client, wlan0 = DHCP server ?, bridge0 = ?
Lite5: eth0 = dhcp server ?, wlan0 = DHCP client?, bridge0 = ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!