Routing Wireless Network to external swtich
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 6:30 pm
I am hoping someone here can help me out with routing of wifi traffic compared to switch traffic on my mikrotik router.
The devices i have has 8 Ethernet ports and wifi built in.
Currently I want to route all internet traffic though a transparent bridge proxy server.
This works fine for LAN traffic because I have all LAN computers plugged into a switch, switch is plugged into proxy server and proxy server is plugged into 1 LAN port on the mikrotik router.
However since Wifi is directly into the mikrotik it doesn't affect the wifi traffic.
Is there a way to essentially bridge wifi traffic to one of the Ethernet ports on the mikrotik and then plug that into the external switch so it would essentially act like a separate access point?
In other words even though the wifi is in the same unit as the mikrotik router it would be segmented off so it couldn't talk to the router unless it was plugged into the external switch to get back to the mikrotik router?
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks
KJ
The devices i have has 8 Ethernet ports and wifi built in.
Currently I want to route all internet traffic though a transparent bridge proxy server.
This works fine for LAN traffic because I have all LAN computers plugged into a switch, switch is plugged into proxy server and proxy server is plugged into 1 LAN port on the mikrotik router.
However since Wifi is directly into the mikrotik it doesn't affect the wifi traffic.
Is there a way to essentially bridge wifi traffic to one of the Ethernet ports on the mikrotik and then plug that into the external switch so it would essentially act like a separate access point?
In other words even though the wifi is in the same unit as the mikrotik router it would be segmented off so it couldn't talk to the router unless it was plugged into the external switch to get back to the mikrotik router?
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks
KJ