how do I connect to my bridge?

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I have a mikrotik “big” router in front of my whole network, and I just set up a hAP mini to access it via wifi bridge. I disabled the DHCP server, and now it’s acting transparently for two of the eth ports.

But.. now how do I connect to the bridge webfig/terminal? I don’t see it listed with a DHCP lease in the “big” router. Clearly it’s working, as I am only connected through it.

I don’t have Windows, so Winbox is out of scope.

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Hello

Normally, you should have an IP address (on hap) on the same subnet of the port the hap is connected to. Otherwise, you can’t connect. Since you can’t use winbox, I’m assuming you have a Linux box, yes?

Create a bridge on the hap, slave Wi-Fi and ether ports to it, assign address to bridge, and you’re done. You may have to reset the hap to get there though :frowning:

Sent from my cell phone. Sorry for the errors.

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Yep, Linux. (and OSX/macos). I might be able to get to it if I set some static IP settings, I assume it is still at 192.168.88.1, but it’s passing through DHCP entries that don’t include that range in the netmask.

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Following up, that did it. I put myself into the network+netmask+ip, was able to get in with “88.1”. I then enabled DHCP client (which gave me a proper IP) and also changed it in ip->addresses. I was nervous to change that entry, which is why I did DHCP first.

4 mikrotik devices on my network now.

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another followup for posterity. IP->Neighbors shows all of my mikrotik devices. Unfortunately I didn’t check it before making these other changes, so I’m unsure if it would have found my device initially :confused:

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Piece of advice: activate RoMON On all devices. You’ll find your devices no matter what. It would have been better for you if you could have used WinBox.

Glad it worked for you :slight_smile:

Sent from my cell phone. Sorry for the errors.

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You can run winbox in both using wine.

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But will MNDP work? That was his problem, the “not discovering routers”…

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Not sure what MNDP stands for … but Winbox displays routers and MAC Winbox connection works in Linux and wine if that is the question.

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Mikrotik neighbor discovery protocol, like Cisco’s CDP.

You answered. Thanks!!