In 2.9.x I used to have 2 radios, both in AP-Bridge mode and would connect to each via wds. Worked fine with SR2, SR9, R52 etc. I haven’t been able to get the same situation to work when both radios are on 3.x or just one radio is on 3.x. I have tried it with R52->CM9 and SR9->SR9 with no luck. They connect wirelessly buy no traffic will pass, no mac-telnet, no mac-ping etc… Seems to be a 3.x problem to me. Also, I have tried it on 3.2 and 3.10.
I know most people would not use Mikrotik in this way but in certain situations I can create backdoors and full functioning capabilities by using ap-bridge and ap-bridge on both sides.
Can anyone confirm or deny?
The setup is always the same:
Radio1:
mode=ap-bridge
wds-mode=static
wds1 is added for the connecting radio
wlan1 and wds1 are bridged together
Same config works on 2.9.x but will not work on 3.x