I am replacing an older access point with a hAP ax2, and I need to create three SSIDs, each tagged with its own VLAN, and a trunk back to the switch connecting them to the router/firewall and the rest of the network. I read about the change from wifiwave2 to wifi in RouterOS 7.13, and I figured I should go with that since it will be the way going forward.
There’s a tutorial thread on VLANs, but it uses the older “wireless” for the pre-802.11ax hardware, and how that translates to the new stuff isn’t clear to me. There’s documentation on the new “wifi” package, containing examples for a simple dual-band AP with only one SSID and no VLANs, and a VLAN configuration that uses CAPsMAN - which I don’t think makes sense here because I have only one AP.
I’m posting a new thread on this because I have spent days trying to scrape together a configuration from the examples above and elsewhere, none of which cover this entire use case, and I have become totally confused. I’ll use CAPsMAN if it turns out to be the easiest way, I guess, or I’ll roll back to v7.12 and use wifiwave2 - any help at all would be welcome at this point. I just need to come up with a config that works in my environment.
Yep, that’s the tutorial I was talking about. It has most of what I need but I am fumbling through translating the old “wireless” interface commands to the new “wifi” version.
According to other experts here just stick to the defaults as much as possible… and that its easy.
I beg to differ but check out some newer videos by MT for wifi, they will be helpful.
OK, I think I got to a working config by transposing the wireless portions of the guide above, a little at at time. Everything seems to be functioning except that I can’t see the hAP’s management IP via the trunk port from my switch… but I think that’s an unrelated issue that I will start a separate topic about. All the wifi stuff appears to be working fine. Thanks!
(edit: I figured the last thing out, it was due to some confusion about VLAN tagged vs. untagged traffic going across the bridge.)
When I get around to it I will try and put up a sanitized version of the config I used for whatever poor soul might need it in the future.