Use of pseudo bridge ...

Good day…

Im writing this wondering if anyone finds the pseudo-bridge option useful and/or how to implement it. Im asking because I have the following setup on a recently built node and it appears that the voip has problems getting through the double nat cluster.
----Ap 1

Simple Diagram of setup ( Main Mikrotik Router ) - Switch – ----Ap 2 ---- Client(s) ---- (Rb Cpe) —> Comp

----Ap 3


… The ap’s are connected via the 192.168.2.0/24 network with the poe port. From there each wireless interface has a dhcp server that is natted (masq) to the main router. I.e on each access point 0.0.0.0/0 is pointed towards 192.168.2.1/24 and from 192.168.2.1/24 0.0.0.0/0 is pointed towards the wan.


On the cpe side the wireless interface is connected via station mode with a dhcp client attatched to it and from there a dhcp server is created on a “free” interface which is natted to the aforementioned. This works fine for http data but anything else is a buzz.

To further clarify things here is an actual segment of the network.


Main router (192.168.2.1/24) — Ap 1 ( poe interface 192.168.2.2/24) (2.4Ghz Interface 192.168.4.1/24 - Dhcp Server)

Client ( 192.168.4.8 Dhcp client 2.4ghz Interface) (Poe Interface 192.178.7.1 - Dhcp Server) ---- Lan


Im quite certain there is a way to make this setup far more effiecient, im open to any insights. Also It would be much appreciated to see where the psedo-bridge option would fit it.

It would be real nice to just plug the cpe into the lan and pull an ip from the main router. :smiley:


Regards.

I did get it to work - 'till the RB112 crashed with beta9. Had to turn the DHCP client off on the bridge. But I’m also double natting Vonage and Skype with no problems.

Ah, thanx much for the reply, I havent had any luck with beta9 as voip packets causes a kernel panic and renders everything useless. I did try my vonage softphone and it worked behind the nat but the voip setup is not that of vonage.

How exactly did you setup your pseudo-bridge?

Regards.

Not much to setup. Just station-pseudobridge on wlan1 bridged to ether1. Management IP on the bridge. Clients off ether1 would get DHCP from the upstream server. Did work but not long.