Bridge and wlans mystery

Does anyone has any idea why adding the wlans interfaces into a bridge results with the router not being able to be reached or to reach anyone in the LAN and WAN? All the clients connected to the router through the ethernet interfaces retain internet connectivity and can reach the LAN, but if I connect into the router and do a quick

ping google.com

or

pint 192.168.1.1

It doesn’t work. But if I disable the wlans bridge ports, the router works again. My router is a hAP ac lite and here is my configuration if this can help someone to figure this out.

/interface bridge
add name=br-vlan10
/interface ethernet
set [ find default-name=ether3 ] master-port=ether2
set [ find default-name=ether4 ] master-port=ether2
set [ find default-name=ether5 ] master-port=ether2
/interface wireless
set [ find default-name=wlan1 ] disabled=no frequency=auto security-profile=Staff
set [ find default-name=wlan2 ] disabled=no frequency=auto security-profile=Staff
/ip hotspot profile
set [ find default=yes ] html-directory=flash/hotspot
/interface bridge port
add bridge=br-vlan10 interface=ether2
add bridge=br-vlan10 interface=ether1
add bridge=br-vlan10 disabled=yes interface=wlan1
add bridge=br-vlan10 disabled=yes interface=wlan2
/ip dhcp-client
add dhcp-options=hostname,clientid disabled=no interface=ether1

Okay, I figured it out. It was super freaky.

I noticed that the problem was when the router got certain IP. I restarted the main router, but the problem wasn’t cleared. I then just cleared the ARP record for the particular IP that was giving me the problem, and VOILA. The mystery is solved. It had nothing to do with the router I was configuring nor bridges; but all to do with ARP.

No clue why that fixed it, but glad it did :slight_smile: