Hi all, I recently decided to explore the idea of segmenting my home network into multiple VLANs. I am by no means a Mikrotik expert and my networking knowledge was mostly confined to cloud provider abstractions. Due to this lack of experience it was a frustrating and time-consuming experience. In…

Continued from the previous post 5. Wi-Fi Access Point Configuration Now that we have configured the router, we can configure the access points. Connect each access point to your computer using ethernet port 2 and open WinBox to connect to the access point using the MAC address. :warning: This is…

Great step-by-step guide VLANs! I only have one minor suggestion - a firewall rule which allows port forwarding that can be disabled or removed if not used: /ip firewall filter add action=accept chain=forward comment=“port forwarding” connection-nat-state=dstnat

[image] TheCat12: add action=accept chain=forward comment=“port forwarding” connection-nat-state=dstnat Thank you, I’ve update the content accordingly. I initially had a filter for port forwarding, but since then decided to make use a of reverse tunnel (cloudflared container running on the R…

Great tutorial, but this should be moved to Useful user articles so it’s not lost here in the beginner section.

Thank you, that makes sense. I’ve moved this topic and updated the title to be a bit more clear.

This is a great post. I have benn amazed at the detail put into this post. Thank you so very much for this instruction list in detail.

Would be nice to see the FULL CONFIG of both presented.

Hi, thanks for this great guide. I just ran through the steps and everything appeared to go brilliantly. The router is up and running and looks to be working as expected. The CAP, however, although up and running has a wifi issue; while both master wifi channels are transmitting the slaves are not. …

Please create new thread with your config included (remove personal info and please post between code quotes). Put link here so we can find it back.

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