I have a situation I just can’t figure out. I have 5 mikrotiks set up as bridges. 2 pairs of radios (the 433AH’s) and one as an ethernet bridge (Mountain 532).
(-… = Radio link
— = Ethernet
Cedar 433AH (- … -) North Mountain 433AH ---- Mountain 532 router / bridge — South Mountain 433AH (- … -) St. George 433AH
The Mountain radios are set as “station WDS” and the other sides of the wireless links are set to “bridge” with dynamic WDS enabled. Each device has just one bridge, “bridge1”
The radio and ethernet links are all up.
If the Cedar side radio link is up and the St George side comes up, traffic will only pass to the Cedar / North side. For example, mac telnet from the 532 will show all 4 devices, but I can only start a session with the ones on the Cedar / North side.
If I remove the South mountain ethernet interface from bridge 1, I CAN mac telnet to the devices on the St. George / South side.
No VLAN’s or anything like that going on here. Turning RSTP on or off doesn’t seem to make a difference. Any other ideas? Right now I’m just feeding bandwidth from the Cedar side to some other devices on the mountain, but I want to make this a 2-hop link to St. George, as well as have it available as a backup link.
I have to keep this bridged, by the way, because I’m doing pppoe from an AP on the mountain, and would like to eventually pass vlans as well.
what version you are using and you can mac-telnet from where to where?
if we set routers like that A-B-C-D-E you say, that you remove ethernet interface from bridge on router D, facing router C, can you still reach E from C using mac-telnet?
what version you are using and you can mac-telnet from where to where?
if we set routers like that A-B-C-D-E you say, that you remove ethernet interface from bridge on router D, facing router C, can you still reach E from C using mac-telnet?
We are using 3.16 on them.
We are logged into C. We disable the bridge interface on C that connects to D and then can connect to either D or E via mac telnet. If we leave the interface on the bridge enabled on C that connects to D, I cannot connect to D or E. A, B and C stay reachable. I suspect that if the C-B link were to go down, I might be able to reach C through D or E, but cannot try it on the live network due to lack of ready physical access to the units B, C and D (snow).
…(if) you remove ethernet interface from bridge on router D, facing router C, can you still reach E from C using mac-telnet?
What interfaces and in what modes are you bridging? Isn’t that typical bridged station problem?
Going off the previous quote for simplicity, where A is Cedar 433AH…
On “A” I am bridging the ethernet interface (eth1) and the wlan1 interface. The WDS interface comes up in the bridge dynamically. wds1 shows as “root port” others as “designated port”
On “B” I bridge eth1, wlan1. eth1 shows as root port.
On “C” I bridge all the ethernet ports
On “D” I bridge eth1, wlan1. eth1 shows up as root port.
On “E” I bridge eth1 and wlan1. The WDS interface comes up dynamic as the root port, the others dynamic.
Going through this exercise, I wonder about something… Should I be bridging wlan1 on A and E, or just the dynamic WDS? Not sure how this would affect things, but I’m curious.