Ether1 and Ether2 WAN ports

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello,

I am trying to setup Ether1 and Ether2 as WAN ports and Ether3-5 as switch ports bridged to the wlan.

I have the 3-5 setup and work but can’t figure out how to remove ether2 from the switch so it doesn’t hand out IPs to the switch?

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You can only have one master port - so you’ll need to use a software bridge between 1 and 2.
Clear 3 - 5 to have no master. Then when no port is using 2 as master, set 4 and 5 to use 3 as the master.
Now create a bridge - call it WanBridge or something like that.
Then add ports ether1 and ether2 to the WanBridge
Then move any and all configurations which refer to ether1 (other than the bridge membership of course) onto WanBridge - move the wan IP / dhcp-client / pppoe client / firewall rules / etc.

  • if anything refers to the pppoe interface, then leave that alone, though.