MAC pings but no IP pings

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hey all. New to Mikrotik and the forum, so Howdy!

This really should be simple, but I’m convinced there’s something I’m missing. I’ve been through every article in the Wiki that I can find on the topic, and I have been through Mr. Burgess’s book “Learn RouterOS” a few times now but I’m still hitting the same wall. Setup is basically as follows, although I’ve system reset this thing a few times to start over from scratch.

RB433_1

Set the Gateway to 0.0.0.0/0 → 192.168.1.1
Eth1 is 192.168.1.41/24
Wan1 is enabled and set to 192.168.2.1/24
NAT masquerade is enabled.

Tools - Ping can ping all internal interfaces, as well as the gateway.

RB433_2

Eth1 is set to 192.168.88.1
Wan 1 is enabled and set to 192.168.2.2
0.0.0.0/0 → 192.168.2.1 is set as default gateway (edit)

Tools - Ping can ping all internal interfaces, but cannot ping the gateway or the other side of the wireless link.

If >system package print is to be believed, I’m running v3.22. The two PCs are both connected to Eth1 on their respective boards with the appropriate local subnet configured. Winbox is being used for configuration. Both boards are sitting in my office, with about 40 feet and a wall between them. Each has a R52 wireless card and is running on PoE. I can get the link to appear in the Wireless → Registration tab, and it shows a stable -70.

I can get a MAC ping to work, but so far I have not been able to get an IP ping at all, and I get no connectivity from PC2. I have tried bridged, WDS, and dabbled in EoIP trying to get the link to work, but I seem to constantly be coming back to this MAC-but-no-IP-ping issue.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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Do you have a default gateway in RB433_2?

/ip route
add dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 gateway=192.168.2.1

ADD: Howdy! Welcome to the forum! :smiley:

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Yes, it’s there…edited the post to reflect that.

4

Set RB433_1 to station-wds, and RB433-2 to slave-wds. Both routers saw the other register. pinging on the wds1 interface of both routers results in being able to ping the far side of the link, but unable to ping itself. Is this normal behavior?

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Both boards should be on the same network ID as well as the default gateway should be the same.

Try this as an example:

RB433_1:

ap bridge
ether1 set to 192.168.1.41/24
Set the Gateway to 0.0.0.0/0 → 192.168.1.1

RB433_2:

Station wds
ether1 set to 192.168.1.42/24
Set the Gateway to 0.0.0.0/0 → 192.168.1.1

if PC1 and PC2 are LANs (not just a single PCs) they can be in a different subnets other than the RBs with the add of the necessary routes.

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Checked. SSID is the default MikroTik.

I tried out your setup and it did not work. I tried using both wlan1 as the gateway interface, and no interface specified with no luck. ARP pings and standard pings did not work on the wireless link to the far side, 192.168.2.2 or 2.1. Local interfaces pinged properly.

I’m not so sure about the default gateways being the same. Assuming Mysterious’s setup, how would RB433_2 know to look for 192.168.1.1 on anything other than eth1?