Hi, recently i purchased RB500 + atheros card and i wish to use that on the following scenario :

RouterOS --> Rb500+Atheroes --> Client


As i have already have a RouterOS with 1.8 Ghz as the basic router, i wish my RB500 to ack as a outdoor Wireless AP only, without any routing needed for it. I wish my RB500 to have just 1 ip (just as the other outdoor AP). How can i configure that? Do i need to bridge between the ether1 and wireless interface? Please help me. Thank you very much

Have you tried bridging ether and wlan?

No, i haven't tried bridged the unit yet, because i am not really expert in that. If you could please give me detail instruction on how to setup it. Thank you very much

It is my experience that when you bridge the 2 interfaces, you will lose a considerable amount of throughput. We are still testing this though.

Bridge the ethernet and wireless interfaces.
Works great on the AP for non-MT clients.

(you can't do this on a station without WDS though)

Regards

We've tested going from MT to MT on our backbone and at every hop we've been losing 1Mb-1.5Mb throught the bridged interfaces. But like I said, we are still testing.

The wireless interface always shows more "traffic" than the ethernet interface where the real traffic level to measure is.

I always quote them on the ethernet interface OUT of the router - the input side where the bandwidth tester source is always reads too high also.

Regards

This is exactly what I'm trying to do.

I already have an MT Router, works great, I've been using a CB3 as an AP and want to replace it. So I have an MT 532 now - straight out of the box, nothings really configed. I have an Atheros mini-PCI. I setup the AP under WIRELESS -> INTERFACES - I've added IP's to the Ether1 and WLAN1 interfaces, which devices on my network can ping, I can see the SSID with my laptop and connect and the WIRELESS TABLES -> REGISTRATION shows my laptop connecting. But I can't ping anything from or to my laptop.

Wirelessly everything looks like it's connecting, but network wise it doesn't seem to work. Do I need to add some firewall rules or bridge some interface?

All I want is for this MT device to act like an AP - no special routing (unless I have to) or anything.

Thanks all

-Carus

Setup a bridge (say "bridge1")

make sure Ethernet and WLAN are members of the bridge

Bingo.

I love you ...... in a purely platonic soft of way .

I was thinking that even without a bridge I shoud be able to ping the WLAN1 interface, but oh well - yeah it works.

Now on to the more difficult stuff.

-Carus