I have an RB433 that has roughly 15 clients connected to it. Most all of my clients are set up as client routers but I have one of them bridged. It has a static ip on the same subnet as all of the other devices but for whatever reason I can not access it’s interface or even ping it when I am a couple of hops away.
RB433 ------- RB600 -------- RB433------client bridge.
The client is a Nanostation 2. I can access it fine if I am wirelessly connected with my laptop directly to the same RB433.
I can access all the devices that are in router mode just fine.
I just tried to hook a nanostation that was set up as a bridge to one of the ethernet ports on the RB433 to see if I could communicate with it over the network and I can’t even do that unless I am wirelessly connected to that specific RB433. If I am 1 or more hops away from the RB433 there is no way to access the nanostation. If I set the nanostation up in router mode it is no problem. Not sure what is going on.
Since you posted in the wireless support, I assume that you have a wireless network between both of your RB433 and RB600. If that is the case, then you need wds or pseudo-bridge if you want to bridge these networks.
I tried both station and station wds. The nanostation doesn’t have a station pseudobridge setting. And as I was saying I also hooked it to the RB433 via ethernet just for testing purposes and I still could not access it over the network.
I found a solution. If I let the nanostation receive an ip via dhcp from the RB433 rather than assign a static ip, I am then able to access the interface. I wonder why it makes a difference?
I wanted to revisit this because I am still want to figure out why I can not reach the nanostation unless I let the routerboard assign it an ip address via dhcp. If I assign the nanostation a static ip in the same subnet it is not reachable.
I’ve tested this on multiple segments of my network with different pieces of equipment and it still does not work.
I would assign an ip within the local netmask, but outside the dhcp range. I always leave a few ips outside the dhcp range.
I only use part of the localnet for dhcp. I use xx.xx.xx.1 for the gateway, xx.xx.xx.16-xx.xx.xx.250 for dhcp. That way I can use xx.xx.xx.2 to xx.xx.xx.15 for static ips.
The best practice is assign static ips outside the range of the dhcp server. If it does issue an ip you have assigned as static, there will be a challenge.
Otherwise, on the static assignment, insure the netmask (/ip address), default gateway (/ip route), and the dns servers (/ip dns) are correct.