Hello everyone..
I bought my first mikrotik RB951G-2HND.
Modem dgn220v4 192.168.1.1 connected to the RB port #1 192.168.1.106 (assigned from the modem’s dhcp).
Connected my pc to the RB port #2 192.168.88.254 and gateway 192.168.88.1. Internet works
I didn’t want to lock me out so before enable DMZ in my modem and touch the firewall in the RB, I read about safe mode so I thought to be ready.. I went to quick set to assign a static ip and badabum.. The board is no longer accessible from 192.168.88.1. I think to have put 192.168.1.10.
You can reset the RB951 to defaults by powering up with the button pressed and release it after about 10 seconds when the LED starts blinking.
However when you tried to add 192.168.1.10 as an address that easily explains the problem because it is in the same subnet as your external modem.
That is of course not possible.
Yes, you are right.. I don’t understand why in “local network” there was 192.168.88.1 and now there is 192.168.50.1 with dchp 192.168.88.10-192.168.88.254 (I setted up on wlan1 an hotspot with that subnet)
I have a question.. I read what “bridge” mean, but I don’t understand at all.. Before the reset in interface list all were bridge, now they are Ethernet, I don’t see any difference-
If in quickset I check “bridge all lan ports” what will change?
My goal is to not restrict the LANS, all can share and use VNC with each other.
The question in my mind about “bridge all interfaces” is - does this mean literally ALL interfaces on the device or does it mean all LAN (non-WAN) interfaces?
I assume that it means ALL interfaces - turning the device into a WAP. I generally don’t mess with QuickSet because I use interfaces for different purposes than it thinks I should, so it will break my configuration if it applies any changes…
In general:
Bridging means that interfaces are all part of the same LAN.
Not bridging means that each interface is a separate network with a different IP range on it. (not very useful for most home deployments)
The best fit for most home router configurations is to use a LAN bridge which connects to the wlan1 interface and to the ether2-master-local interface.
(you see this information in the Bridge > Ports menu)
The bridge interface is your LAN interface - this is where you configure all IP addresses, DHCP services, firewall filter rules, etc. The physical ports (ether2-local-master / ether3-local-slave / wlan1 / etc) are just members of that network and don’t need any specific settings on them except for very specific interface-related things like speed/duplex settings, or wireless configuration settings.
As far as TCP/IP is concerned, you only have two interfaces on your router: ether1-gateway and LAN (I think they call it bridge-local)
The reason I never use quickset is that you never know the answer to such questions until you try it, and when the answer is not what you expect you have locked yourself out.
So it is better to just incrementally change the config from the default to what you like.
ZeroByte, it does say “Bridge all LAN ports” actually, so there is no mystery as to what will happen. on home AP units like the hAP ac, this will put Ether2-Ether5, wlan1 and wlan2 all in a bridge and put a DHCP server on the bridge. This is what most home users use, so that all devices, wired and wireless have access to the LAN resources.
