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In my example I am using CIDR 10.1.0.1/24 for my guest network. We now need to associate a list of IP addresses to our guest bridge.Įnter your address subnet that you will associate with your guest bridge. Select your virtual AP interface and your guest bridge. Think of this as associating the virtual AP interface with the guest bridge we created. Let’s continue on to create a bridge port. Under the WDS tab, select your guest bridge created earlier. Under the Wireless Tab, set the SSID, Master Interface (wlan1) and associate your Security Profile that you created above. Name the interface something sensible, eg. Go to Interfaces > Add > VirtualAP > General Tab Now, create your Virtual Access Point Interface.

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Set the Pre-Shared Key to the desired password for your Guest Network WiFi. Name your security profile something appropriate, use WPA2-PSK using AES. Go to Wireless > Security Profiles > Add. We first need a securtity profile (basically the authentication settings for our WiFi). Now we need to set up our Virtual Access Point for our guest network. This will be used for connecting our isolated guest network to the correct ethernet port on the router. Let’s kick off the configuration with setting up a new bridge. First thing’s first, put the router into safe mode (just in case we do something stupid and lose connection to the router). Here I am using Debian Linux, winbox.exe run’s AOK in Wine. Wlan1 is configured as our main wireless access point - the SSID is hidden so that the guest network is the only visible wireless network. On my router we have 10.0.0.0/16 as our resident network - WAN comes in on ether1-gateway. This guide assumes there is a pre-existing configuration on the router.

Isolate guest devices from resident devices (such as the NAS).

Place guests on a different subnet to residents.Provide guests with access to the internet.Let’s begin with outlining what the Guest Wireless network needs to do. Other tutorials may be done over SSH as this is my favourite way of working. This small walkthrough is perhaps a bit uncharacteristic of the way I work as I am utilizing the Winbox GUI application rather than configuring the MikroTik over SSH. The last point is fairly important to me as I want to create a guest WiFi network to isolate visitors from the rest of the network, BYOD is the acronym for “Bring Your Own Disaster” after all. My goal for using this router is to better manage my home network, VPN connections and the guests who come into our home.

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I revived a brand new MikroTik routerboard through the post recently an RB2011U series router to be specific.

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