Failed connecting LAN device via wireless

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello all. I have a simple problem. I have looked at many guides. I must be missing something simple somewhere.

From what I am reading, connecting a LAN device (in another room) to an existing network with wifi (all mikrotik), is as simple as activating the WLAN interface on STATION mode and connecting to the existing SSID. Then creating a bridge with the WLAN and ether interface with the printer.

Router A: 172.16.1.1
ether5: WAN
SSID: HOME (mode AP BRIDGE)
DHCP Server

Router B (wlan1: mode STATION, client of SSID “HOME”)
ether5: PRINTER
bridge1: ether5 & wlan1
DHCP Client: on bridge 1 (bridge1 ip 172.16.1.50)

The issue I am having is the PRINTER correctly obtained ip address from the DHCP server from A, so layer 2 works. But the PRINTER cannot be pinged from router A. Clients connected to the HOME SSID from Router A cannot see the printer.

Because Layer 2 works and layer 3 doesn’t, I suspect its something to do with the firewall rules in Router A, would you agree?

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Use mode station-bridge for the client router.
If you’re running CAPsMAN on the main router, then you should go for station-pseudobridge as CAPsMAN unfortunately doesn’t support the MikroTik-proprietary bridge extensions.
-Chris

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I am using CAPSMAN on the main Router-A to provision its built-in 2G and 5G radios. I use the 2G radio for my connection and the 5G for the link to Router-B.

I will try station-pseudobridge. Thank you.

Update: problem solved with station-pseudobridge.