Masquerading over a PTP link

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I’m pretty much a beginner so excuse my lack of detail with what I’m trying to accomplish. Basically we have a customer who can’t get cable directly to his home, so he wants to install a PTP link from his house to another location where he can get cable.

So what we would have is: Modem < MT < PTP Antenna 1 <-----------> PTP Antenna 2 < MT <----House’s Main MT

I’m sure there are probably different ways of going about doing this, I’m just trying to do this the cleanest way.

Could I potentially just bridge the modem back to the House. The House’s MT would handle the NAT and masquerade out the PTP interference? I would put a IP on the PTP interference so I can access the Antenna’s IP that I would statically assign.

Am I going about this correctly?

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Don’t think there is one ‘correct way’ of doing this. Think it depends a little bit on other requirements.

If you control both ends (MT), strictly speaking masquerading isn’t nessecary. You could easily segment the networks into a management, client A and client B network. Avoids having to do double NATting keeping as much of the management centralised in one device (the outer MT).

On the other hand, masquerading could help handing some control over to the inner MT and hiding client details on the other MT.

Cheers.