I’m new to Mikrotik products and have bought a new 2011UiAS-RM to improve my networking skills. Although I have an infrastructure background I’m struggling to achieve what would be a trivial task with my new toy.
I’m trying to get a new POE Ubiquiti AP I’ve connected to port 10 to be included in the same general LAN segment as the rest of my gear. The AP is powering up fine, however because it is not on the same layer2 network it’s not being providing with a IP and I cannot discover it.
I’ve tried removing Port 10 as slave to Port 6 and adding it to bridge-local, however the port goes in to a disabled state.
I’ve also tried enabling Switch All Ports on switch 2.
From everything I’ve read, I need to somehow bridge Port 10 to the switch 1, but there are no obvious settings. I’m assuming this can be achieve via the GUI and I shouldn’t need to use the CLI. The default configuration hasn’t been changed much.
Thanks in the advance and apologies for the simplistic request.
Here is a typical setup:
ether1-gateway = to ISP
ether2-5 switched by switch chip 1
ether6-10 switched by switch chip 2
bridge-local contains ether2 and ether6
In Winbox, open interfaces and choose ethernet. Select ether3 and change its master port to ether2. Repeat for ether4 and 5.
Select ether 7 and change its master port to ether6. Repeat for ether 8,9,and 10.
Go to your bridge and select the ports tab. Add ether2 and ether6 to the bridge.
Yes, that’s the current setup I have. The ISP connection is through ether1-gateway, and I have dual NIC NAS and server connected to ether2-5 to allow multiple full gigabit iSCSI connections.
I’ve checked your suggestion. ether7-10 are already slaves to ether6. I’ve check the bridge ports tab and ether2-5 and ether6-master-local is included also. The only difference is ether3-5 are not slaves to ether2. Is this change going to solve the issue without interfering with the existing NAS and server traffic routes?