Hotspot & Bridge drops arp static entries on reboot

RouterOS General
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I have three interface on a Mikrotik router 2 of them are bridged and one is hotspot interface. 1 bridged interface is connected to the internet, other 2 are connected to my local area network. I do this so that I can use public IPs on my local network and manage them on the router. Previous versions worked without a problem. But when I tried 2.9, this is what happened.

Hotspot wont work properly because local ip arp mac address jump to bridged interface. In order to solve this problem I set bridge interface arp reply only, then I add arp entries for public ips on local network manually. When I do this everything works fine. Only that when I reboot the router all entries are lost.

Can someone give me an alternative or help me solve this problem? or is it a bug?

Thanks

Charles

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Someone pls help!! Please Please!

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I don’t know how to make your ARP entries stick, but you could connect your WAN source and your LAN to a switch, and connect just one port of the MT router to that switch… Then the MT router can reach all destinations through one interface, eliminating the confustion, and the switch can handle the Layer 2 work…

Hitek

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Thanks for your reply, This is my setup

WAN ----->ETH1 MT BRIDGE ETH2 ------>SWITCH------->LAN

LAN ------>SWITCH —>ETH3 MT HOTSPOT—>ETH1—>WAN

So as u see here I have Eth2 and Eth3 Connected to a Switch and only Eth1 is connected to Wan.

This worked well on 2.8 I had no complain. Pls can u explain how exactly I should do this.

Regards
Charles

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I guess I don’t really understand what you are trying to do. There really should be no situation that requires bridging two local ethernet interfaces connected to the same switch, that could not also be accomplished by properly configuring a single interface…