I need to connect notebooks through wireless to my LAN and to my server whichs is a domain controller.
What is the best security and performance choice?
Hardware
Routerboard 153
MiniPCI AR5212
Software
Routeros-rb 500
Version: 2.9.51
So you have an existing wireless card in the router or are you still going to do this?
Do you need the wireless users to be able to browse windows shares? (like \desktop1\sharename)
How many wireless users are you talking about?
What level license do you have? Level 4 is required for Access Point mode.
Level 4
Ok you are going to need to bridge the wireless with the ethernet as simple routes will not allow you to browse a share name.
With so few clients this is not a problem. Give the bridge an IP address that corresponds with the existing LAN. Make sure you set the ARP to proxy-arp.
Security wise, use WPA with TKIP unless all the client wireless cards support WPA2 in which case use this instead. Bear in mind that WPA2 uses more processing power than just WPA. Whatever suite of security you choose, make sure you create a decent PSK. I go the whole hog and make it 63 characters. Then once your wireless users are authenticated, make the registration static and tick off the default authenticate. This will stop any card connecting other than the ones in the static table. This is ultimately hackable but a good security measure nonetheless.
Don’t let the clients configure their own wireless cards, rather you do that and then you know no-one else knows the PSK.
Can’t think of anything else right now. Give this a shot and let’s see.