I have a new MantBox ax 15s configured in AP mode (version 7.18.2). The single active Wifi interface and the ether interface are bridged. The ether port is connected to my home router which has a DHCP server. There is a dhcp client on the bridge of the mant which gets an address ok.
When I connect my laptop to the mantbox access point, I get an address via dhcp and can run “ipconfig /renew” at any time.
As soon as I connect an SXT (version 7.12) to the access point in station mode (or station-pseudobridge), my laptop can no longer renew it’s address via dhcp (timeout). A dhcp client on the SXT never gets an address.
When I torch the mant’s wifi interface, I can see the bootpc packets. They don’t appear when I torch the bridge.
It appears that when the Miktotik device is connected to the access point, the access point blocks dhcp all requests across the bridge.
My knowledge on the L2 / L3 is not good and I obviously have a lot to learn.
I still dont understand why my laptop could get an ip address when connected directly to the mant, until the sxt also connected to the mant. I will have to recreate this to make sure I was seeing the problem as I described it.
For now, I have changed to using eoip tunnels for the two Mikrotik’s (sxt and lhg) that are connecting to the mant and added Wifi2 to the bridge with ether1 and the two eoip tunnels. My laptop can still get dhcp addresses and whether it is connected to the mant via wifi or connected to the LHG’s ether port. So I think the eoip tunnel method will help with integrating this new ax mant into our existing network. The mant is currently working in A/N mode (not AX), but I assume that doesn’t make a difference.
Our network consists of a root router connected to the first main hub via p2p. This hub is connected to the second main hub via p2p. There is another main hub beyond that. Each of the main hubs has one or more sector radios that service mutiple locations. A location consists of an access point, router and a lhg or sxt that connects to the sector radio of a main hub. Each location has multiple wifi devices that use dhcp to get an address.
At the moment, we use station-bridge mode on all the client radios and network runs ok. All radios and routers have static ip addresses and there is a single dhcp server at the gateway router. I assume this means we have an L2 network.
If I change the network config to be more L3, will I need to have give each location its own address range or subnet and dhcp server? I assume normal ip routing will take care of the rest?
I have mananged to test giving a “location” (the sxt) its own ip range and dhcp server. the sxt connects to the mant in station mode and i am using standard routing. I can ping from either end of the network ok.
Station Pseudo-bridge usually won’t work if you have r/stp active on the interface.
Not sure if it needs to be just disabled on one side or both sides.