Hi, I just bought a Chateau 5G ax. Now I have to connect it to my eero pro router so that it can manage my wifi-mesh network, but I don’t understand how to activate the bridge mode… can anyone help me?
thank you
No one?
I don’t want to seem unfriendly or rude, but the proper answer to your question would be:
Yes.
http://jdebp.info/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html
Please describe your overall network setup, then follow the instructions here:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/forum-rules/173010/1
and post your configuration.
Are you going to add your new chateau to an existing eero mesh network, in which role?
I mean, the Chateau 5G is used normally in the role of router(modem) for the 5G network, and as “main” device, doubling as AP and as a 5 port bridge, if you have already an eero mesh network and a cable (dsl, fiber, whatever) access to internet will it become a failover (what eero calls internet backup) gateway (or hotspot), or what?
You’re right, I was being overly brief. Unfortunately I am unfamiliar with these topics and even the language doesn’t help me.
I recently moved and I’m trying to better organize my home network. At the moment I connect in 5G via the Chateau 5G ax, but I would like to have the wifi managed by a network of eero 6 “nodes” (which I brought with me from my old home). To do this I need to connect the chateau to the eero pro and then the eero pro to the others eero extender. I’ve read that the best (only?) way is to put the chateau in bridge mode and then connect it to the eero port. The problem is that I don’t know how to put the chateu in bridge mode… I can’t find the setting…
Yep, the names are confusing (generally) and to add to it every make/brand use some, slightly or greatly, different naming for the same thing.
I have no idea how the eero thingies work, but probably you don’t need to do anything on the Mikrotik to have it working, at least from what I can understand from this topic:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/connect-mikrotik-router-to-other-wifi-routers/173183/1
the OP there had a “normal” Mikrotik, where the connection to internet was from the ISP modem (by default connected to ether1 which is WAN).
A Chateau 5G is a modem/router where by default the internet connection comes from the 5G card (LTE interface) so it shouldn’t behave differently from the one in the referenced post when you connect to one of the LAN ports.
I presume that the eero thingy gets an IP address as a DHCP client (and the Mikrotik does run by default a DHCP server on the LAN bridge).
If I were you I would first try the setup “as is”, then you should follow the instructions here:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/forum-rules/173010/1
and post your current configuration of the Chateau, surely - provided that it works “as is” - you will want to disable the wireless (to use the eero mesh).
Very likely the result will be a “double NAT” configuration, but in my little experience it is not in practice such a problem, and - personally - I would trust more the Mikrotik firewall than the eero one.
In any case your configuration is needed to allow some more experienced member to suggest you any needed change.
Generally speaking Mikrotik devices are set as routers, with a port (ether1) as WAN and all the other ones in a bridge as LAN, so putting them in “bridge” mode essentially means adding ether1 to the existing bridge, but cannot say if the same can apply to the 5G card/port of the Chateau.