Quick question. If I have my WAN connection on ether9, my local lan connection on ether6, both of these interfaces are bridged together, both are on the same range and subnet. Why am I unable to access or ping another interface, which is on a different IP range? This interface and two other interfaces are physical interfaces (ether1, ether2 & ether10).
Please could someone point me in the right direction, I have trailed numerous pages, sites, forums and I can’t seem to find a similar issue or fix. This appears to be basic networking/routing. Nothing I add into IP>FIREWALL helps.
My WAN connection on ether9 is connected to my PTP backhaul radio, which eventually terminates onto my DSL routers. I bridged my local lan connection (ether6) to the WAN connection(ether9) purely because I could only get it to route internet traffic this way. Plus I need to be able to access my BH radios via UBNT AirControl.
Should I have done it differently cbrown? Excuse my stupidity
Thanks for the Wiki links cbrown. I checked them out, but I’m not running that sort of xDSL connection. My DSL router/modem is issued a public dynamic IP, which then gets connected to whatever clients connect to the router via it’s local lan Gateway address. The ADSL router does all the NAT work. The DSL username and password is located on the DSL router itself and not in the RB1200. After your message I read-up on the switching groups within the Mikrotik and realised that my local lan port was outside ports 1 - 5, so I have since moved it to ether5 ad removed the IP settings which it were using on ether6.
I agree that I should not be “switching” and rather be routing traffic via the WAN interface/gateway. If it would help, could I post exports of my config?
