Hello, I want to convert my ethernet printer to wireless in my home, I have devices connected to my router and they have to be able to reach the printer connected to the Mikrotik,
I have hAP lite at home and I have seen that there is a pseudobridge configuration mode that should work well for me, but it does not work well for me…
Starting with a completely clean configuration, I only configure a bridge with all the ports, I configure the wireless mode in pseudobridge and it connects to my WiFi, I configure dhcp client on the bridge, it does not take IP.
The problem is that the PC that I connect to the bridge to test how the dhcp does not give me an IP, I put a fixed IP on the PC, when I ping a device that is behind the WiFi I have a ping but it is cut off, I have 6 pings ok , 2 bad pings, if I ping from the mikrotik there is no loss, and if I do the ping in reverse there is no ping, they are on the same network segment,
If the other router is also a Mikrotik, don’t use pseudobridge, but use “AP bridge” on one and “station bridge” on the other.
Add WLAN and ethernet for the printer to the RouterOS bridge.
The networks will now be fully bridged.
1.Pseudo bridge has known problems with DHCP - stays sometimes in “offered”. (Fixed IP has better chances)
2.For pseudo bridge redirect table (IP address to devices local MAC address) to be filled and work, the connected device (printer) must communicate first.
For 1 using a DHCP proxy on the pseudo bridge side helps often. Use a non-DHCP (fixed) IP if possible.
Also the station-pseudobridge-clone mode may resolve some of the MAT (mac address translation) introduced issues, in case of one client (e.g. printer)
But real good config is “AP-bridge”-“station bridge” (followed by using WDS, or using any L2 tunnel)
Thank you for your answer, since dhcp client does not work well, I use a fixed IP, but it still does not work, from the mikrotik side I have ping against the router’s IP but it is cut off, and on the opposite side I do not have ping, that is, from the devices from my router to the equipment connected to the mikrotik.
My router is not mikrotik, it is an operator router, gpon
What I don’t understand is because from the Mikrotik there is no ping loss to my router, but from the PC connected to the Mikrotik there is a ping loss
Ping … is bidirectional transmission. The answer must find it’s way back also.
And that reverse path may be a problem here.
Other setup is using the Mikrotik as regular client for the ISP router (including Home gateway setup with NAT (srcnat or masquerade to WAN/WLAN) and firewall, and DHCP server for the LAN side)
Then, special case, redirect (dstnat) incoming connections to the printer on the LAN side. (equivalent to a DMZ host for other brands)
The printer will be reachable by using the Mikrotik WAN side IP address.(the wireless connection)
Default Mikrotik firewall will block accesses from the ISP router unless allowed in the firewall.
Default Mikrotik firewall rules contain accept for DSTNATed connections.
If there is a port overlap between Mikrotik and printer that you need (eg both use port 80 for HTTP), then even a second IP address could be added on the WAN/WLAN side, that one is then DSTNATed to the printer.
from the mikrotik to the router there is no loss, from the client yes, the ping is bidirectional, in case there was a problem with the return it would not respond to any ping, I will try another way as the client says to see if I can get it, thanks