Greetings
Please tell me, it is a difference between bridge interface and bridge port? And what’s a public interface?
Because I’m confused when reading the mikrotik help about hotspot settings. It is said :
“When HotSpot is configured on the bridge interface, set HotSpot interface as bridge interface, not as bridge port, do not add public interfaces to bridge ports.” Read on https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/ROS/pages/56459266/HotSpot+-+Captive+portal#:~:text=The%20MikroTik%20HotSpot%20Gateway%20provides,the%2C%20multiple%20routing%20tables%20used.
Please someone to enlighten me.
It means that if you set a bridge as the interface, on which the hotspot should be running, no WAN ports should be members of the bridge, only LAN ones
Bridge has multiple personalities: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/routeros-bridge-mysteries-explained/147832/1
So bridge interface is a particular bridge port (the the router-facing port of the switch), assigned with L3 properties (such as IP address, etc.). If VLAN filtering is in use, then bridge port will carry one (or more) VLAN interfaces and in that case, bridge won’t act as interface (towards ROS).