I have 2 rb411s with SR9 cards in each. I have had some success in my .9 mile PTP link whose purpose is to share my DSL from my business to my home as well as allow me to network my home and business computers. I keep running into network-killing problems that i assume are dhcp or dns related, because my wireless link ccq is around 90-100% on average. At my business I have AT&T DSL with a Speedstream 5100 modem. The modem is connected in bridge mode to a linksys wrt54g with the linksys handling pppoe and acting as dhcp server. I setup the mikrotik transparent bridge wds using the wiki and have my ap plugged into one of the wrt54g lan ports. On my client side I have another wrt54g running as a wireless ap (dhcp server turned off) with the client rb411 connected to one of its lan ports and my home pc is connected to another lan port (nothing plugged into the wan). I used the exact ip addresses in the wiki (10.1.0.215/24 for bridge1 and 10.1.1.215/24 for ether1 on AP; 10.1.0.216/24 & 10.1.1.216/24 on station wds) and my pppoe hosting wrt54g has an ip address of 192.168.1.1. Should I change my ip’s on the routerboards? Can I maybe get the rb411 on the client side to act as a dhcp server without conflicting with the original dhcp server? I seem to have the most problems when my roommate is connecting to the home linksys wirelessly with his iphone and pc, even though the business end linksys assigns both devices ip addresses. Is the speedstream modem my problem, I’ve heard that NAT overflow could be the cause. Please help! Maybe there is a simpler PTP connection I could try instead of wds-bridge?
Don’t have a set up like that myself. However, as I was searching for some material on VPN setup I came across these two articles on the wiki.
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/PPTPServer
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/PPtP_Client_/_VPN
rgs Pilgrim
Alternatively make a bridged AP ether1=lan and vlan1=your AP, then you just need to make a brigde with the two interfaces and define the address for ether1.
To force the vlan card to be always running disable the running check
/interface wireless set <your card/interface> disable-running-check=yes
rgs Pilgrim
