Ap with various connection types problems with bridges

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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I am having a problem with an ap that has some bridged connections and some routed connections, a hotspot/pppoe behind the ap on a different box.

E.G.

Public 
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Concentator with hotspot and PPoE server
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Switch =====================================================================
  |       |                                        |
AP1    AP2                                      Multiple tenants with their own routers
AP's are set up with bridge containing
both wireless interfaces and ether1
AP's are setup as "ap bridge" 
                          ))))))
=========== VARIOUS CLIENT HARDWARE ========================
{133c with pppoe client}  { Senao Bridge     } {attempt to replace senao with 433's}
{pppoe client and nat   }  { swtich     } {problems with bridge containing      }
                              |      {lan and wlan       }
                   {Multiple tenants with own routers }

So I have mostly two types of wireless client setups. The first works fine, in which case, I put the pppoe config in their 133c on its wlan interface. That works fine. I also have a few multi-tenant buildings that have a senao bridge each conected to a switch and each client in the building has their own pppoe router or just a single PC conected via the hotspot in the main pop. That works fine.

I have tried replacing the senaos with 433’s configured as station and a bridge containing the wlan and ether1 ports. In that case traffic is not passing to the clients.

I started down the path of switching to wds, but if I change the ap’s to bridge rather than ap-bridge as described here http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Transparently_Bridge_two_Networks

The non-wds clients drop and do not reconnect. Also it seems I need a site visit to change the client settings because

Any suggestions

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miahac -
Sounds like you need to set the 433s in pseudo-bridge mode instead of station and then bridge the wlan & ether interface. If I remember correctly you also had to use the WDS mode as well… I believe there is a wiki on that. Take a look. I will too as it has been sometime since I used bridging like that… (I use routed networks, and VPN when/where necessary).

Personally - I beleive you can do that with just straight routing, MAYBE a vpn to the main PPoE server in some cases or possibly an EoIP tunnel instead of the VPN.

R/

Thom