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hAP ac lite as wireless bridge and wi-fi extender/repeater

Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:23 pm

Hello.

I'm trying to configure a hAP ac lite as a network bridge, to provide ethernet and wi-fi connectivity to another area in a house (my sister's house, trying to do something on the cheap for her). Tentatively this will connect to an existing Netgear wireless router, so I'm not using any Mikrotik specific protocols. I'll change out the main router to a hAP ac or something if I have to, though. For now I've been doing my testing connecting to a Ruckus AP with a CRS125 behind it. I have seen some similar posts on here to what I am looking to do, but I haven't seen anything that addresses the specific issues I seem to be encountering. Sorry to be duplicating if I am.

Using wlan 1 as my "bridge" to the other network, I can get wlan 1 to connect to my network and get an IP with a DHCP client on wlan1 using station bridge or station pseudobridge mode, or with a DHCP client on a bridge that contains wlan 1 in station mode. I then have the other interfaces (ether 1-5 and wlan2 and wlan3) on the same bridge with wlan1. I have wlan2 and wlan3 set up in ap bridge mode with SSIDs and encryption. When I try to connect to wlan2 or wlan3 using my phone, I can see the DHCP server on the CRS125 attempting to offer a lease, but no connection is established. I've been playing with this in my spare time over the past week trying everything I can think of. I am pretty adept at router configurations, but I am no expert on Mikrotik wireless. I am now at the point where I have to ask those who know much more than me. My configuration is as follows, though I have tried many other things based on the general bones of this:

/interface bridge
add fast-forward=no name=bridge-local
add fast-forward=no name=bridge-station
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] supplicant-identity=MikroTik
add authentication-types=wpa2-psk eap-methods="" management-protection=\
allowed mode=dynamic-keys name="WiFiBridge" supplicant-identity="" \
wpa2-pre-shared-key=abcdefgh
add authentication-types=wpa2-psk eap-methods="" management-protection=\
allowed mode=dynamic-keys name="WiFi 2.4" supplicant-identity="" \
wpa2-pre-shared-key=12345678
/interface wireless
set [ find default-name=wlan1 ] band=2ghz-b/g/n disabled=no frequency=auto \
mode=station security-profile="WiFiBridge" ssid=HomeWiFi \
wireless-protocol=802.11
set [ find default-name=wlan2 ] band=5ghz-a/n/ac channel-width=20/40mhz-Ce \
disabled=no frequency=auto mode=ap-bridge security-profile="WiFi 2.4" \
ssid=demo5
add disabled=no keepalive-frames=disabled mac-address=CE:2D:E0:2C:53:77 \
master-interface=wlan1 multicast-buffering=disabled name=wlan3 \
security-profile="WiFi 2.4" ssid=demo24 wds-cost-range=0 \
wds-default-cost=0 wps-mode=disabled
/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridge-local interface=wlan1
add bridge=bridge-local interface=wlan2
add bridge=bridge-local interface=ether1
add bridge=bridge-local interface=ether2
add bridge=bridge-local interface=ether3
add bridge=bridge-local interface=ether4
add bridge=bridge-local interface=ether5
add bridge=bridge-local interface=wlan3
/ip dhcp-client
add dhcp-options=hostname,clientid disabled=no interface=bridge-local

I'd really appreciate any help to get this going, or at worst let me know it's simply not possible.
Thanks!!

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