bridging two ports together behind a signal Hotspot

RouterOS General
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Hi,
I am trying to use a simple RB-751u-2Hud for a little hotel, that has a few wired rooms, and a wireless antenna. I am setting up a hotspot on it. I would like to bridge the 2.4 GHz AP on the Mikrotik with ether2. I make the hotspot on ether2, and then I make a bridge, and put the 2.4 AP, and ether2, and I break the hotspot. It turns red, and has a “I” in the side column, for Invalid. I would like to only have 1 hotspot, and not two. How do I combine these ports, and not break the hotspot.

Thanks,

ke6hpz

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i think your idea will not work because usermanager runs on rounting mode no bridging have to configure 2 hotspot

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I tried to do the same thing, but I found that I had to assign the hotspot to the bridge.

After doing this, clients on ether2 AND wlan were connecting to the hotspot.

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Hi shanefletch,

How did you connect the hotspot to the bridge? When you go to bridge/ports, there isn’t hotspot in the pull down list. Or did you do it in another place?

Thanks.

ke6hpz

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Create the bridge first, add the ports (ether2 and wlan) and then create a hotspot on the ‘bridge’ interface. Ive had a few instances where the bridge is not shown, but nothing a quick reboot doest fix and then try again.