Hi, I would like to connect the Mikrotik as an Access Point for my LAN, so that whoever connects can obtain a LAN network address, like a normal PC connected to the network by cable.
My current network uses a pfsense firewall with DHCP server.
My Mikrotik is an old 2.4Ghz version with a firmware 6.34.2, which I would like to avoid updating if possible.
I connected it with the LAN network card (ether2) which is a designated port, like wlan1 in bridge1.
The problem is that I need to use the DHCP server of the network to obtain the IP address of whoever connects us with WiFi so as to have the same class of addresses. This is needed for STM32 WiFi card programming problems.
Can anyone give me some tips on how to do it?
A thousand thanks
Hi Anav,
Thanks for the link, but I must honestly say that I didn’t understand much from what I found in your link.
Could you be more clear on that?
I repeat that I am not an expert, especially in the use of mikrotik.
A thousand thanks
Cant really, I have no idea what your traffic flow needs are, and there is no network diagram etc..
So have no clue whats coming into the AP etc… adn what the AP is supposed to provide
Hi Anav,
I’m sorry but I thought I was more exhaustive in the question.
In practice I would like whoever connects to the WiFi to have a network address, provided (possibly) by the DHCP server present on the network. So you can see the devices and go to the Internet through the firewall.
So the OP wants the Mikrotik to ONLY function as a WiFi access point. No “router” functions. That should be fairly straight forward (but I don’t do WiFi in ROS so I’m no help there).
And suntchi56, please tell us what hardware you have.
Also, I would recommend updating the ROS version. 6.34.2 is ancient and has some serious security issues.
Yes, I want to use it only as an Access Point.
The device is a hAP lite ID:RB941-2nD-TC, but honestly, in addition to not knowing which firmware is correct, I’m always a little afraid to update the firmware, I’ve already ruined some products forever and for this reason I would like to avoid updating.
hAP ac lite is a nice device, but the WiFi is rather limited primarily due to only internal antennas. I have two of them (although they are running a ham radio software called AREDN).
Firmware updates on most of the Mikrotik devices is pretty reliable.
Ok James,
too bad we never connected (ZA/IK2RLM).
In practice I use it only for the weather station that I just finished.
Ok I updated the firmware to 6.49.8
I hope to find someone who can give me a solution for this problem, I don’t think I’m able to solve it, I’ve tried a thousand ways without any success.
Use quickset (HomeAP):
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Quickset
@anav gave you link to a tutorial, did you try to follow it ?
Anyhow, the way I do it is:
- delete default configuration, you don’t need firewall and DHCP server in your case as you are using it as simple AP and you can do that by going to System/Reset configuration and check “No Default Configuration” When router reboots you can access it by MAC address from Winbox (Works for me)
Now you have router without any configuration.
- First thing that I would do is to create management port that would be used for configuration so in case of misconfiguration you don’t lock yourself from router. (That is also mentioned in @anav tutorial)
For eg, you want port 4 to be used as management, go to IP → Addresses, click “+” sign then enter IP address you want to use for management, for e.g..10.10.10.10/24 and choose interface, in this case ether4, network tab you can leave blank, it will be auto-filled.
Now you can disconnect your laptop/PC from whatever port you are using and connect it to port4, enter IP address manually into your PC (for e.g..10.10.10.11) and you should be able to connect to your router.
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in winbox under “Bridge” click on “+” sign and create new bridge, change only name if you want. Then under same menu go to tab named “Ports”, click “+” button to add ports to a bridge and add all ports except port4 that you are using for management. (ether1,2,3 and wireless interfaces should be on same bridge)
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In wireless you can assign SSID, password, set country etc.
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What I do is I create DHCP client and assign it to a bridge you just created so router assign IP address automatically to AP so I can access it from my network and so you can download updates from quickset. I believe there is also mention of that in tutorial.
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I’m not sure if this create routes automatically or not, because you will need to create routes if you want for AP to be able to download firmware from the internet.
Wow!!
Run very well, it’s so simple solution.
Thanks many many thanks.
I still recommend you to look at topic that @anav posted. You will learn a lot there. And if there is something you don’t understand just ask here 
Of course I thank you, as soon as I finish the program I’m realizing, I’ll deepen this topic better also because it interests me a lot.
I wrote some instructions on this very requirement somewhere but I can’t find them at the moment. Top-level configuration:
- Reset the configuration without any default configuration
- Add a bridge and add all the ethernet and wireless interfaces as ports for that bridge
- Add a DHCP client to the bridge
- Configure the Wi-Fi interfaces as required
This effectively makes the device a switch with wireless access points. Gets more complicated if you want guest Wi-Fi.
Later… found my instructions in this post: