A lot of RouterOS I just had to figure out on my own. When I bridged, say ether1 and wlan1, I put the IP address on wlan1. I figure they are actually bridged, so it shouldn’t matter which one it goes on. But then I was looking at some examples here on Mikrotik, and I noticed they put the IP addresses on the bridge interface and not on ether1 or wlan1.
Does it really make a lot of difference? I know what I did worked the way I wanted, but is there one way preferable over another way?
Jay
Like the old saying goes, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, all too often with MikroTik I’ve had something working perfectly and then changed something to tidy it up or see what happens and then lock myself out! Personally I always put the addresses on the bridge as it reminds you they are bridged rather than routed.
" What is the difference between bridge and router"
A bridge is work like a bridge just connecting two roads then it seems it is one. And a router keeps two roads separate but make some logical sense to connect those two roads.
So when you running on a bridge there are two roads (interface) but it seems there is only one road is running there which is bridge, And whatever you are want to do will effect on bridge.
Hope help to develop the concept.
Rafiq…