I want some input on what you believe happened in this scenario.
Issues with printing came about after converting the mikrotik router into a hotspot system.
I had trouble printing on printers 1 + 2, printing from pc's 1 + 2. Surfing the web via the hotspot on PC 1 & 2 had no problems.
All printers are static IP'ed. Printers 1 + 2 (HP CP3525 laser's) & printer 3( Hp 1510n laser)
Basically I had the network diagram below.
Initial testing would be that the pinging from say pc 1 to printer 1 would produce a one off good ping then the sequential ping would come back from the router(10.1.1.1) saying destination unreachable.
This was also emulated on PC 2 and printer 2, same issue and same result.
PC 3 & printer 3 had no issues printing.
Now the FIX after many hours of banging my head was changing the media converters to 100Mbit versions. Now the 1 & 2 printers print properly and all is well.
So what happened ? Why was it under 10mbit m/converters that say pinging from pc1 to printer 1, only produced 1 good ping packet and either the router coming back and saying unreachable or msg from the local pc's ping producing an destination unreachable.
It was my understanding that under the same subnet pc's/printers would not attempt to talk out to the router unless the request came from another subnet range.
Or is this a layer 2 problem with timings by having 10mbit media converters between 2 10/100mbit switches. And the router's does `something' when the icmp or other packet request doesn't get answered in a timely fashion. ??