Hello,
i have 2 RB411 stock boards, level 3 license
i want to build a transparent bridge, i’ve read: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Transparently_Bridge_two_Networks
and http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/rb411-point-to-point/21135/1 (which pointed to the former)
but AFAIK, i can’t use WDS AP with level 3(and i don’t want to use WDS if i can help it too) -i can’t use AP at all with L3-
how do i configure bridging with level 3?(i’ll be using nstreme, HW-comp, no encryption, mac-filtering and all that fancy stuff the R52 card has).
do i need to set one point as AP after all?
thanks in advance
For a transparent bridge, you NEED to use WDS.
You can do it with a level 3 license. Set one side to bridge and the other to station. Get the wireless link up and running, then switch it to station WDS. Then create the bridge on each side and either create set the cards to static WDS and add a WDS interface on each side with the mac address of the other wireless card, or set it to dynamic on each side. Make sure the wds interface is added to the bridge if it is static.
Those are the basic steips, but follow the wiki, as it probably lays it out better.
I’m testing this and seeing the wiki, in te wiki it assigns IP to the interfaces, but a transparent bridge should be protocol-independant (i mean, even if i have the ip 192.168.0.x on ether1, it should still pass ANY traffic regardless of ip and protocol). will it work like that?.
what’s the point of assigning a IP address to the wds-bridge?
Also, the wiki has errors, the top topology graphic does not correspond to the IPs that are put in the instructions below.
anyone has better instructions?