MikroTik

Hi there,

I'm looking to bridge my Internet connected non-Mikrotik Wireless AP at 192.168.1.254 with my Mikrotik, wirelessly. I'm not allowed by my landlord to run cables to the router. I'm doing this so I can attach a couple of Raspberry PIs to the the Mikrotik so they can get Internet connectivity.

I've followed the instructions upon http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Wireless_AP_Client several times now and failed. Spent many hours. I know this is super straight forward in DD-WRT.

I found my mikrotik does get stuck at "Searching for networks" once station mode is chosen. However if I manually disconnect, I can connect (finally) to my wireless network from the QuickSet menu. However the bridge and routing doesn't work, that's where the problem lies I think.

I did manage to relay DHCP after setting that up, but I don't really see why I had to. Still I couldn't punch out through to my 192.168.1.254 gateway from the Mikrotik I ended up configuring on 192.168.1.4. Perhaps my IP or netmask is wrong. Either way the instructions really really need some more details and walk through for fairly simple use cases like mine.

I uploaded some painful screencasts where I didn't get very far:
http://s.natalian.org/2015-03-08/P2P.mp4
http://s.natalian.org.s3.amazonaws.com/ ... etwork.mp4
http://s.natalian.org.s3.amazonaws.com/ ... /take5.mp4
http://s.natalian.org.s3.amazonaws.com/ ... bridge.mp4


The Quickset P2P bridge seems broken since the wlan interface disappears. I also don't understand why I even need to define an IP, I wish it could just get an IP from my DHCP on 192.168.1.254.

Don't use quickset. Fully wipe the config and set everything manually. It will work.

But following station mode from http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Wireless_AP_Client doesn't work (routing) either, though with this method after Disconnecting... I'm at least able to join my network.


What should the IPs look for the IP/Addresses part?


I did find another tutorial: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Connect_t ... ss_Network

This does work, but leaves me double natted! I uploaded a video to Youtube that hopefully will help someone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMgm3TdXhlE

You can't use interface for dhcp-client if it's in slave mode (is a part of a bridge). Change dhcp-client interface to bridge-local.

The problem is with wireless mode. If you want to use bridge, you can't use normal slave mode, becouse this is standard mode that does not support L2 bridging.
You cant use station-mode only in router type connection.
If you wan't to have normal bridge, try to use station-wds.