bpwl
May 1, 2020, 12:18pm
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regarding the dhcp client issue - i tried assigning a fix ip to bridge like i do in all my other mikrotiks - and i coudn’t ping it anyway nor access the mikrotik via ip.
i don’t know what’s wrong with this router but it’s not working as it should. i can’t comment on all things you said as it’s too technical for me, i know how to setup a basic or even a semi-advanced configuration , this should be a “piece of cake” configuration.
btw this is the exact same setup i had on an old rb433 with 3 wifi cards, 1 wifi card in station mode, the other 2 in ap-bridge and all lan ports in bridge. worked flawlesly for years.
if anyone has the hap ac (lite or non lite), would be nice if you tried the same configuration and posted the result , if it works for you, or you get the same problem? thanks.
That 5 euro AP/repeater thing (Edimax, TP-link, etc etc) knows 2 relevant modes mostly: AP and repeater. They call that repeater mode also “station” mode. That station mode is the Mikrotiks “station pseudo bridge” mode however. And they have also their problems … sometimes they work, and then with others AP’s they don’t work. And apart from selecting one of the 4 to 6 predefined modes you have no tools to check or correct.
Things reacted different since ROS 6.38 around DHCP. Maybe your old rb433 was on pre-6.38 release. (http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/ros-6-38-serious-dhcp-server-problem/105259/1 ) (http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/tp-link-repeater-re450-not-assigning-ip-address/118970/1 )