I have a question about something that I think it can be done but I rather ask before I buy all the equipment. I’m making a portable networking rig that I’m going to be using for my digital audio mixer.
I am thinking about buying wAP ac LTE kit so I could use internet over LTE. My idea is that this would only be failover WAN.
My system would consist of wAP ac LTE kit and a TP Link TL-SG105E switch to which I would like to connect all of my devices including the wAP ac LTE kit and WAN . I would like to setup one of the ports on the switch on separate VLAN for WAN and a port with two VLANs for wAp. Other 3 ports would be setup on VLAN used for LAN. Would it be possible to use wAP also as router with WAN switching in a system like this?
I hope I didn’t complicate my explanation too much.
Yeah that’s possible. If your switch is tagging the traffic correctly, you can add a VLAN interface on the wAP. The VLAN internet would be set to the vlan-id used by the WAN VLAN ID set on the switch and the VLAN interface would listen on ether1.
Since it’s regular L3 interface on the wAP RouterOS - you can add a DHCP client (or static WAN IPs) and/or NAT rules to the VLAN interface associated with the WAN. You likely want to add the “WAN VLAN” in Interfaces > Interface List as “WAN” interface. And if you set “check gateway” and “metric” on the default routes you can control which WAN link will be used or even use ECMP to load balance access the LTE and ethernet WAN.
One thought. You might able to simplify you rig by using the wAP R ac since that has two ethernet ports - so you could use the 2nd port as the WAN port along with the internet LTE modem: https://mikrotik.com/product/wap_r_ac#fndtn-gallery