Basic Router w/ WDS link

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I am new all of this and have been fighting with my 433 and 411 boards to set this up. What I am looking to do is:

ether1 = public IP, DHCP from ISP
ether2 & ether3 = bridged with DHCP server for private clients
bridge ether1 and wlan1 using WDS for a third remote client

I have successfully configured 433 and 411 to create the WDS link.

However, I can’t for the life of me just setup a simple router with public IP on ether1 and private IP on ether2 and ether3. I have run through the Learn Router OS book by Dennis Burgess several times to setup a home router. when I get completely though setup, I can never access 433 one ether2 or ether3. my laptop is connected to ether2 and will not pull an ip from the 433.

I must be doing something wrong, as this seems so simple.

I used this to setup WDS link:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Transparently_Bridge_two_Networks

Then I reset the router back to defaults and tried using this to setup simple router
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/help-with-basic-setting-with-dhcp/29873/1

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,
Aren

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here is a print of my setup, right now. my laptop is connected to ether2 and is not getting assigned an IP. Nor can it connect thru winbox.

[admin@MikroTik] > ip address print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic

ADDRESS NETWORK BROADCAST INTERFACE

0 192.168.200.1/24 192.168.200.0 192.168.200.255 ether2
1 D 208.100.136.127/22 208.100.136.0 208.100.139.255 ether1


[admin@MikroTik] > interface print
Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave

NAME TYPE MTU L2MTU

0 R ether1 ether 1500 1526
1 R ether2 ether 1500 1522
2 ether3 ether 1500 1522
3 X wlan1 wlan 1500


[admin@MikroTik] > ip firewall nat print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
0 chain=srcnat action=masquerade out-interface=ether1


Thanks!

3

What about

/ip dhcp-server print

?
I don’t see a bridge listed in

/interface print

; I assume you haven’t put it back yet.
I want to assume you haven’t yet run the wds setup again either; wlan1 is currently disabled.
You can still connect with winbox, but only with mac address for now.
Where is your dhcp server?

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[admin@MikroTik] > ip dhcp-server print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid

NAME INTERFACE RELAY ADDRESS-POOL LEASE-TIME ADD-ARP

0 dhcp1 ether2 dhcp_pool1 3d

[admin@MikroTik] > interface print
Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave

NAME TYPE MTU L2MTU

0 R ether1 ether 1500 1526
1 ether2 ether 1500 1522
2 ether3 ether 1500 1522
3 X wlan1 wlan 1500
[admin@MikroTik] >


I haven't added the bridge yet, I have been trying to simplify down to the bare minimum. I reset the router to default just to have a clean start point and will add the WDS link in after I get this ether2 access thing figured out.

With the setup right now i can't access the router thru winbox on ether2 even using MAC.

thanks again!

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In your 2nd post:

In your last post:

How are you accessing the router? Have you checked your cables?

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In my last print i had disconnected my laptop from ether2 and was accessing the router directly from ether1.

is there some way to confirm that ether2 and ether3 are operating properly? When the router is reset to factory specs, there seems no way to connect to it via ether2 or ether3.

If I try to connect with winbox to ether2, I get a RouterOS Winbox error that it cannot connect to MAC address (port 20561) - timed out!

Thanks,
Aren

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so, i’ve been working to figure this stuff out, i’ve got my 5ghz WDS link operational and I want to connect client hardware to the station. the client must have an IP of 169.25.0.3 The ap-bridge end is setup as a dhcp client on the subnet 192.168.1.0/24

I’ve tried to set up a nat on the station end of the wds link to translate the 169.254.0.0/24 addresses into the the 192.168.1.0/24 addresses. But have had no luck. can someone point me in the right direction? i used srcnat->wdsbridge->masquerade

how do i handle the dns for the client on the station side of the wds link?

Thanks, sorry for the ignorance!
Aren

8

i used: RouterOS - RouterOS - MikroTik Documentation

Now I can ping from 169.254.0.3 -> 192.168.1.x subnet but I can't ping back the other direction.

my nat looks like this:

[admin@5ghz_link] > ip firewall nat print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
0 chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=169.254.0.3
dst-address=192.168.1.27

1 chain=srcnat action=src-nat to-addresses=192.168.1.27
src-address=169.254.0.3

this ip print is on the 192.168.1.x side of the the wds link
[admin@5ghz_link] > ip address print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic

ADDRESS NETWORK BROADCAST INTERFACE

0 D 192.168.1.27/24 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.255 ether1
1 169.254.0.1/24 169.254.0.0 169.254.0.255 wds-bridge


i think i am missing something in the nat to direct requests for 169.254.0.x to 192.168.1.27? does that sound right?

Thanks,