

The second profile will be used to connect to the on-premise wireless network. SSH into your device and execute the following set of commands (don’t forget to select your own WiFi passphrase and replace MySecretPassowrd below): /interface wireless security-profiles set \ authentication-types=wpa-psk,wpa2-psk \ mode=dynamic-keys \ supplicant-identity=MikroTik \ wpa-pre-shared-key=MySecretPassword \ wpa2-pre-shared-key=MySecretPassword The first one will be used to authenticate users wanting to connect to WiFi Network provided by the Mikrotik router. connecting to any guest wireless network.Configuring the wireless security profileįirst, we’ll need to configure the wireless security profiles. In this walkthrough, we’ll demonstrate how to do this set up your hAP ac lite using the command line - because the command line is just awesome.Ģ. It exposes a configuration interface through a web application, CLI and through a proprietary application called WinBox (which sadly is a Windows-only application but it will run under Wine).

MikroTik’s devices run a Linux-based operating system called RouterOS. Luckily the routers from this Latvian company are configurable beyond everything a mere mortal might need.

It has five Ethernet ports and two WLAN antennas - one working in the 2,4GHz and the other working in the 5GHz range. Our router of choice was MikroTik’s RB952Ui-5ac2nD (or hAP ac lite for short).
