Bridge between ether1 and Wlan1

RouterOS Forwarding Protocols
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Hello,

I have 3 Mikrotik Groove 52AC making a mesh network through their wlan1 interfaces.
Each of these antenna is linked to a computer (and in the future, to a switch).
My goal is to make each computer as if they were on the same network.

My idea is to bridge ether1 and wlan1, but when I create one bridge, and add ether1 (or all) to ports, I lose all contact with the routerOS interface.

I don’t see where the problem is from, maybe something linked to the dhcp ?

Thank you for you help,

best regards,

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Are you connected through IP address? Might want to connect through MAC address.

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Well the different antenna are connected through MAC address,
But the antenna itself is connected through IP to the computer.

How can I connect everything through MAC ?

And at the end have a way to have all my computers on the same network ? (keeping this mesh architecture)

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Give an IP address to the bridge before you start adding ports.
The DHCP client on ether1 will stop working when connected to the bridge (ether1 is now a slave interface)

Connect via MAC while making the transition to bridged mode of operation (=Quickset “WISP AP + bridge mode set”)
Connecting via MAC is with WinBox on PC or Android APP, or with MAC Telnet from another RouterOS, or by using RoMon through another RouterOS.

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Thank you for your advice, I have many questions,

Should I give a static address? (In that case, how do I choose it ? Or a dynamic one.

Also, to connect via MAC Adress, using winbox, I can do it with a computer not physically linked to the antenna. My computer should connect to the network created by the antenna ?

edit:
These are the settings I chose :

https://ibb.co/mzwJknH

Now I can connect to the antenna using WinBox but I don’t know what is the next step.
Do I just have to add the ports ?
In that case will I be able to ping my computer linked by ethernet to the antenna from my computer on the Mikrotik network ?

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Sorry,

I’m a bit lost about the next step.
I’m unable to ping the two computers right now. I supposed this is because there is no DHCP, What am I supposed to do in that case ?

More general question, if after that, I link all my antenna as a mesh network, should I have only one DHCP server on the network or can I have multiple one ? In case of one node disappear

Thank you again

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should I have only one DHCP server on the network or can I have multiple one ? In case of one node disappear

Normally there is one DHCP server only. If you want redundancy then multiple DHCP servers can be used but should operate in the same overall sub-net, and offer the same gateway and DNS information.. The pool’s of the DHCP servers may not overlap.
e.g.: give 192.168.88.50 till 99 to DHCP1, 192.168.88.100 till 149 to DHCP2, 192.168.88.150 till 199 to DHCP3. All 3 DHCP servers operate in network 192.168.88.0/24, and they have a different static IP address not in the pool range. They distribute the same gateway and DNS information for that network. (eg: gateway= 192.168.88.1, DNS=192.168.88.1)

In this setup it does not matter which DHCP server is giving a DHCP lease to a DHCP client device. All DHCP leases will be valid for that network.

To have redundacy for the gateway use VRRP.

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Thank you, I managed to make it work without bridging, I only needed to add ether1 and Wlan1 to the ports of the mesh.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

But thank you a lot for your answer, it explains a lot, the only thing I needed to know !

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OK Great!. “Mesh” supersedes “bridge” indeed.

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Mesh_wds → https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/HWMPplus#Example