It says this is supported from 6.35 only in wireless-rep or wireless-cm2 package, but the changelog said one of these is obsolete
and the other renamed to “wireless” which is included in bundle “routeros” package. Fortunately, this is listed in my router’s System->Packages screen (both routers are new).
On the main (connected to internet) mikrotik has ssid “Test” and in both Wireless->Interfaces->wlan1->Wireless security profile is shown as “default” so I am using the command on the second/repeater router: /interface> wireless add mode=station master-interface=wlan1 ssid=Test security-profile=default. This makes a virtual lan “wlan2” appear in the list but still no internet connection.
The ssid of the second router is Test2 and I have the same wireless password on both.
I’m guessing there is something wrong with the bridge (or other) settings but I am not enough of an expert to be able to locate the problem(s).
Do you mean using the remote router to scan for the SSID of the primary one? I’m having trouble searching for how to do this.
I just have the secondary one configured in router mode using Wisp-AP quick set, since this is the one I am most familiar with. The primary router has the normal configuration for connecting to our network via eth1 and I can access the internet through the other ports and with wifi (I chose this method of wireless bridging specifically because it only seemed to require a special setup for the remote router).
To make sure I understand what you are trying to do, is the following accurate?
You have two buildlings
Both buildings have MikroTik routers with wireless cards
You want to second building to be able to act as an access point as well as a client connecting to the other building using the virtual client feature?
Based on the above information you used the wireless mode “station”. In station mode, you do not have layer 2 bridging so you need to setup a dhcp client on the virtual client for the router to get an IP address and access to the internet. Then you would need to setup a DHCP server for the clients in the secondary building to get internet as well.
If you are wanting to let the primary building handle DHCP, you can try mode “station-bridge” which will have the access point in the primary building keep a forwarding table containing MAC addresses that are reachable in the secondary building allowing you to use the DHCP server in the primary building. Then clients connecting to the wireless in the secondary building can get IP addresses from the primary building. I’ve never used virtual clients because it impacts performance so let me know if that works out for you.