i read the wiki about Transparently Bridge two Networks , i’m so confused , why setting one of them as an AP and the other as a station ? arent they equal ?
I just want to make a Point to Point transparent bridge , from my main MT to a client who I gave hime a dedicated bandwidth , and i have to limit his band (tx/rx) ..
as I think , i have to make a stup like that :
on AP1 :
bridge1=wlan1+ether1
AP1 ip address = bridge1 IP address
mode : bridge
on AP2 is the same as AP1 ..
The example in the Wiki is where one side of the Bridge only needs to be a client, it doesn’t need to double as an Access Point.
You can set it up symmetrically with both routers set to “ap bridge”, it’s just another way of achieving the same result.
Only setup a device as an AP if it really needs to be one, otherwise you’re unnecessarily cluttering the airwaves with redundant SSIDs and also attracting potential attacks from hackers.
The great thing about RouterOS is that it has the flexibility to do pretty much whatever you want, the downside is that you can have multiple ways of doing the same thing which may be confusing to newbies.
You cannot put a wireless interface in station mode into a bridge!
Well, you can, but it won’t work.
Search the forum, there are many topics about this. You have two options:
a) use WDS on the wireless link to create a transparent bridge or
b) test the 3.0 beta version, there is a client-mode for pseudo-bridging that should work (but: this still is a beta! you have been warned )
(@skynoc: Please do not post configurations you haven’t tested or are not sure of.)
it was a mistake , you can set the first point as ap-bridge with wds and the other end as station-wds and wds mode = dynamic wds-default-bridge=bridge1 on both sides ,
in this way he can achieve it
No problem.
I just think that posting some config commands (like you did) that are not “the whole picture” (in this example missing the WDS part) should at least be accompanied by a notice that this is not everything needed.
Otherwise others searching for a solution could stumble upon this, try it and it (of course) won’t work..
what if i want to make a mesh of nodes ?? do i have to make one of the nodes as a ap-bridge and the others as a station-wds ?? would the other nodes connect to each other ??
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