I am running two routerboards with 2.8.11 installed and AR5212 cards. I have a Linksys router as my gateway router. I need to take one of the routerboards and turn it into a bridge and the second into a bridge/client. I will then have workstations behind the second routerboard. The workstations will pull an IP via DHCP from the Linksys, THROUGH the routerboards.
Here is how I have it configured now:
Linksys <--> RB1 <--> RB2 <-->WS1,WS2
I have a bridge group on RB1, forwarding ip, arp, and every other option. Both the WAN (wired) side and the LAN (wireless) side are part of this bridge. The AR5212 interface (LAN) is set to a mode of bridge.
RB2 has a bridge group, with forwarding for ip, arp, and every other option. Both the WAN (wireless) side and the LAN (wired) side are part of this bridge. The AR5212 interface (WAN) is set to a mode of station.
When I try to DHCP an IP on my workstation from behind RB2, connected to RB1 (via wireless), connected to the Linksys, FROM the Linksys, it works. I am able to DHCP an IP. However, I am unable to ping the gateway, nor browse to the gateway nor past the gateway.
I have tried changing the mode for the AR5212 on RB2 to bridge, but then it will not connect to RB1.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Jodie Crouch
I am wondering the same thing. My set up is this:
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Mikrotik router acting a border gateway to internet going to wired side of RB1 which is in bridge group with wireless card connected to RB2 Wireless card with same setup as RB1. RB1's ethernet is connected to another Mikrotik router. So MT/router-><-RB1-><-RB2-><-MT/router. The only way I can get the two routerboards to bridge the traffic is to set both RB wireless interfaces to mode=bridge, WDS-mode=dynamic and WDS-bridge=the bridge interface. Is there another way to do this or is this the only way?
Dan
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Mikrotik router acting a border gateway to internet going to wired side of RB1 which is in bridge group with wireless card connected to RB2 Wireless card with same setup as RB1. RB1's ethernet is connected to another Mikrotik router. So MT/router-><-RB1-><-RB2-><-MT/router. The only way I can get the two routerboards to bridge the traffic is to set both RB wireless interfaces to mode=bridge, WDS-mode=dynamic and WDS-bridge=the bridge interface. Is there another way to do this or is this the only way?
Dan
If anyone else is wondering, this may be why
posted by lastguru.
Dan
This can be found here: http://bruno.pmi.lv/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=417You cannot bridge IEEE802.11 stations because of limitation of the standard - an AP only accepts packets from a station which has the same MAC address that the station has. Some manufacturers implement a workaroud to this problem by masquerading MAC addresses of the computers behind it (i.e., all that computers will go with the same MAC address), but that leads to numerous network problems (including DHCP not working as it cannot distinguish all that computers behind such a bridge). As this workaround is heavily flawed and creates some misterious problems, it is not implemented in RouterOS.
posted by lastguru.
Dan