Set up hAP Lite as a switch with wifi
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 7:37 pm
Hi,
I'm tying to extend my coverage to a office room located too far from the main router so the wireless link is not excellent and I have some wired devices as well, two PCs.
I would want to have the devices in the same LAN, there is SMB sharing between them, a network printer, etc. The main RB951ui will control everything.
I believe I can do this by setting up the hAP Lite device to act as a switch only, all devices will be getting IPs from the main RB951ui DHCP server and I could also use the WiFi on the hAP Lite. I searched the forum and found that basically I should put all eth ports and wlan1 in a bridge with rtsp, set no IP's, no firewall rules, no DNS and connect the hAP Lite to the main router via a eth port (eth2 or eth1?). Is that correct? I'm fine managing the hAP Lite with winbox via MAC so I don't need an IP set to hAP Lite.
Is this the correct way of doing it?
You can take a look at my diagram
I'm tying to extend my coverage to a office room located too far from the main router so the wireless link is not excellent and I have some wired devices as well, two PCs.
I would want to have the devices in the same LAN, there is SMB sharing between them, a network printer, etc. The main RB951ui will control everything.
I believe I can do this by setting up the hAP Lite device to act as a switch only, all devices will be getting IPs from the main RB951ui DHCP server and I could also use the WiFi on the hAP Lite. I searched the forum and found that basically I should put all eth ports and wlan1 in a bridge with rtsp, set no IP's, no firewall rules, no DNS and connect the hAP Lite to the main router via a eth port (eth2 or eth1?). Is that correct? I'm fine managing the hAP Lite with winbox via MAC so I don't need an IP set to hAP Lite.
Is this the correct way of doing it?
You can take a look at my diagram