Mikrotik: Configuring Radio as Router

1. Login into your radio using winbox

2. On the left hand menu choose wireless then go to Interface on the window appeared.

Enable the wireless interface by selecting it and click the tick sign

Click the wireless interface to bring up the following window

Select the wireless tab

On the Mode choose Station

Station means: This is where your MTK acts as a client and connects to an Access Point

If you click on the Advanced Mode you will be able to see Radio Name with Mac Address. You can Add the name of the client. This will enable you to identify whose radio is remotely when you login into your AP.



3. Go to IP, then Address to fill in the Public IP for Wlan1 interface and Private IP for ether1 interface

4. Go to IP, Then Routes to add Gateway

The gateway you are adding here is that of Public IP

5. Go to IP, then DNS to add Domain Name Server

On the appeared window, click Settings, DNS Settings window will appear. Add your DNS IP(s)

6. To add NAT, go to IP, then Firewall. Choose NAT on the appeared window. Click the + sign, go to Action to choose Masquerading

Masquerading conserves the number of global IP Addresses required and it lets the whole network use a single IP address in its communication with the world.

7. To add DHCP Server, go to IP, then DHCP Server, click on DHCP setup. click next, next till it is done. but make sure that the DHCP Server Interface is ether1.



You are done. Congratulation for configuring the Radio as Router! :-)