I have a P2P setup consisting of 2 of each RB411s, 900mhz rootenna and SR9s. I’ve been working on this project for a couple of months now whenever I have spare time and finally today I got my businesses DSL connected to my home (where not even the local WISP can provide me service, let alone ATT and there’s no cable.) I don’t understand something, though. I have followed a few different mikrotik wiki setups and none worked. I could get pinging but could never get on the net until today I switched the bridge client to station pseudobridge and bam! I was magically online. At my office I’ve got ADSL to D-Link Dl-604(wired) to PC and RB411. I setup DHCP server on the RB411 so the Dl-604 would stop being so stingy with the DSL and DHCP client on bridge1 on client side. I followed all the directions I could find to a tee but the only way I can get actual internet is through pseudobridge. What gives? There has to be a better way!
Without exports of your setups I would guess it has to do with your routing or nat setup. Either you have do full routing or turn NAT on at your home end.
Ideally you should run a seperate subnet for your home end and route that correctly.
- Or you could just leave it bridged like you have, for a small network it will be fine and will allow your to do things like access windows fileshares etc.
Mike
MAC level bridging of Ethernet, Ethernet over IP (EoIP), Prism, Atheros and RadioLAN interfaces are supported. All 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g client wireless interfaces (ad-hoc, infrastructure or station mode) do not support this because of the limitations of 802.11. However, it is possible to bridge over the Prism and Atheros based links using the WDS feature (for Atheros and Prism chipset based cards) or Ethernet over IP protocol.
Source:> http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/interface/bridge.php
In summary, you can’t add a mikrotik client (station) to a bridge. Except with wds, eoip or station pseudobridge.
A better way of doing what exactly?
Like Mike said, the other option you have is a routed setup - take out the bridge from client RB411, put client radio in station mode as dhcp client, create a different subnet for ether1 +/- dhcp server. Of course, you’ll require NAT at the AP end (office RB411).