SXT Transparent Bridge + Multicast

RouterOS Forwarding Protocols
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Hi Forum,

I have 2 SXT’s, 5nd r2’s. Obviously one is station the other ap bridge.

I have set up a bridge interface and added both the wlan and ether1 interfaces to it, to create a bridged link on either end. Essentially trying to emulate a big ethernet link.

2 devices that use Multicast on either end cant seem to talk to each other.

If I do a similar setup but on a single 951-2n, both ports going through CPU and member of a bridge interface (so not using switch chip) the multicast works, but through the SXT’s it doesn’t appear to be. I can see the traffic hitting in and trying to send out (about 4-5mbit) but not getting anything back.

Is there a trick to getting multicast working between the Ether->wlan bridging on an SXT? Would I need to use some form of IGMP Proxy or other multicast routing?

The multicast package is installed on both, both running 6.17 currently.

Thanks,
Joe

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Post both export on the forum, and the Multicast package is noot needed if you want do only l2 bridge between points

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Hi rextended,

I haven’t used transparent bridging much - so I wasn’t up to speed on the different station modes. After setting AP to ‘bridge’ and client to ‘station-bridge’ I now have success getting multicast packets through! My own fault for not reading more.

Thanks for the response anyways but got this one sorted :slight_smile:

Thanks.

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