[afnog] MikroTik Router Wireless

[Emmanuel Antwi Kwarteng]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 05:58, you wrote:

Hi Gitau,

> Emmanuel,
> I think you need to tell us a little bit more about the wireless side of
> the connection. For instance, the fact that your pc is not 'seeing' the
> wireless connection at all might mean that its not even enabled, or
> configured for the right frequency. After you 'see' the card, basic
> routing, NAT or Masquerading should sort you out.
>

The wireless LANs are enabled, operating in station mode, band of 5GHz and 
frequency of 5180

> Another thing you need to let us know is whether you want the mikrotik
> hotspot setup or to route the wireless clients directly, like you're
> doing for clients on the LAN interface, I'd suggest you go with the
> hotspot option, it gives you more control, Plus it has a wizard to help
> you setup, I think its accessible under the /ip hotspot setup I cant
> remember very well, please look through the menu for that.
>

I have used the hotspot setup for both wireless interfaces.
And I have a pool of addresses on each interface

> The config. below should activate the two wireless cards (2.4GHz) and
> assign IP's to them, you'll probably have to NAT the private range of
> IP's and  route the public IP's. There's also a tool called winbox
> accessible through a browser pointing to any of the IP's on the mikrotik
> eg http://10.1.254.27. That should make your work much easier.
> 'part-15.org' <mailto:'MikroTik at part-15.org'> maintain a mailing list
> for mikrotik dudu's. I suggest you go through their archives, and
> probably join the list as well.
>

I already have access to winbox, and I'm using it.
Thank you I am adding myself to the mailing list now

> interface wireless set wlan1 band=2.4GHz-B mode=ap-bridge ssid=Emmanuel
> disabled=no
> interface wireless set wlan1 band=2.4GHz-B mode=ap-bridge ssid=Emmanuel2
> disabled=no
> ip address add address=80.87.65.249/29 interface=wlan1
> ip address add address=192.168.1.1/24 interface=wlan2
> ip address add address=10.1.254.27/24 interface=ether1
>
I have now changed the mode from station to ap-bridge and the band from 5GHz 
to 2.4GHz. The IP addresses of the interfaces are the same


Unfortunately, I still do not detect any wireless connections arround.
Any other suggestions please?

Emmanuel


> Have a good day.
>
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>  From: afnog-bounces at afnog.org [mailto:afnog-bounces at afnog.org]
> On Behalf Of Emmanuel Antwi Kwarteng
>  Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:21 AM
>  To: afnog at afnog.org
>  Subject: [afnog] MikroTik Router Wireless
>
>
>
>   I am using a Mikrotik router with a RouterOS version
> 2.9beta19 on it.
>
>   My network diagram is as follows:
>
>     ISP Router (Internet)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  _________________________10.1.254.0/24_______
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  10.1.254.27(ether 1)
>
>   DHCP(ether 2) 10.1.1.1/24(ether3)
>
>   --------------------------MikroTik Router
> -------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>     80.87.65.249/29(wlan1)
> 192.168.1.0/24(wlan2)
>
>    I am able to get to the internet from any pc
> behind ethernet 3.
>    The problem is that I can't get any of the
> wireless network connections to work. My PC simply doesn't see any
> wireless connection.
>    Could someone please help me? Thank you
>    Regards,
>    Emmanuel