Simple AP Addressing

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hello Everyone,

I am a MikroTik convert moving away from our current hardware of BriLan.

I have a simple question about a basic setup.

I am running an RB532 with an SR2 as one of our accesspoints. The RB532 has a piece of Cat5E on ether1 connecting it to the network switch as backhaul, and the wlan1 is the A.P.

What is the best way to address the device?

I set it up originally as ether1 addressed as 10.0.18.1/16, with the default gateway as 10.0.10.1.

The default gateway I.P. I gave it, is the same default gateway address that everything else in our network has. This RB532 is connected straight into the network switch, after all.

I then made a bridge between ether1 and wlan1. Seems to work well, with the exception of the SR2 not wanting to re-register clients when you reboot the router. - but that is another subject.

Did I set this up correctly, for a simple bridge? Do I need to assign an address to the bridge, or to the ether1, or to the wlan1?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Adam

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If you have bridged ether1 and wlan1 you need to assign the IP address to the bridge, not directly to ether1.


Regards


Chris Macneill

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Good Morning Chris,

I will make the changes you suggest now.

Thank you for your input!!

Adam