So.. I thought I was quite knowledgable when it came to using Mikrotik, as I’ve been running a hotspot for some time… But here goes my question.
I currently Have a wireless access point (Ubiquity ) connected to my hotspot (mikrotik) and running a dhcp server.
I have serveral clients connected to this AP using Ubiquity wireless devices in bridge mode.
I’ve just purchased my first mikrotik device to use instead of the Ubiquity as a client bridge.
But I can’t get this device to communicate and forward dhcp offering’s and network traffic. Can you Help??
I don’t require this device to do any NAT and it will sit on the same network segment.
In the Ubiquity software, I just select bridge mode, and accosiate it with the AP, and everything works ok!
I am in need of some desperate help, as I want to roll out mikrotik devices to improve standandisation and to help monitor the network more easily.
This is what i’ve read, but i create the bridge, and the station is able to ping my router, but any clients I connect to the station are unable to contact anything other than the station.
Do I need to assign a IP address to the wlan1 interface? I haver also tried assigning a dhcp client to wlan1 and it doesn’t accept an address.
When I check my router I can see that it’s offering address to the station, but always without sucess.
When using a bridge you should not assign an IP to one of it’s interfaces but to the bridge itself.
Also please try the following:
In the “General” tab of the bridge select “proxy-arp” for the ARP dropdown.
If this does not work try it with either the wlan oder ether interface itself.
But that’s just an idea.
In routeros, you can’t put a wireless client in a bridge using ‘station’ mode. http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/interface/bridge.php
Switch wlan1 to station-pseudobridge (you need routeros 3.x) and go ahead with the rest of the setup as usual; you should be fine.