I brought up a Microtik router a few days ago. I put it into bridge mode, since I’m really using it to give a strong WiFi signal inside my main home network. As soon as I switched it to bridge mode, I became unable to bring its interface up in my browser. My home network is all 192.168.1.??? addresses - is it still needing for me to access it at 192.168.88.1? I’m not sure how to do that, if that is my problem.
Also, I brought up a second one today. Does the fact that they both want to be accessed at the same default IP make for a problem?
Unlike other OSes — there’s one from Redmond Washington I’m thinking of in particular — RouterOS doesn’t make it any more difficult to add 50 addresses to an interface than to add one. Moreover, it doesn’t care about the mix of dynamic and static addresses.
Therefore, you can keep the defconf static IP of 192.168.88.1 on the bridge while at the same time having a DHCP client that gets a different IP for the bridge. If it then pleased you to do so, you could add a second static IP to the bridge in yet a third subnet, and so forth.
This facility is useful with travel routers, where you might end up with two or three IPs: a static one to be predictable, a DHCP client so it works wherever you plug it in, and maybe a third to match up with some local network detail you’re facing in the moment.
Atop all this, there’s the MAC access feature, if you enable it, allowing you to connect even when you don’t have a common IP subnet between the two devices.
It does make a problem if they are both connected to same LAN at the same time. So whenever you get another gadget to plug in your network, you have to deal with addressing (and this is true for any vendor’s gadget).
I solved this, after much pulling out of hair. Turns out Wisp AP mode does work just fine, but you can’t plug the ISP network cable into port 1 (the one the labeling on the chassis inclines you to use). Port 2 - works like a charm.
You do lose access to WebFig via WiFi, but my understanding is you can still cable connect to port 1 and get at it that way. Which actually kind of makes that a security bonus.