I don’t seem to be getting a lot of interest in helping me out. I’ve been going through numerous examples in the wiki and the youtube channels that are recommended form the various sticky links like The Network Berg and so on. Those are all great really simple examples of 1 simple thing but the problem is I don’t have 1 simple thing. Here is basically my setup
5 Port HAP AC3
2 x CAP AC3
1 x SwOS 24 Port Switch
Eth1 - WAN - working
Eth2 - bridge br-main → CAP-01
Eth3 - bridge br-main → CAP-02
Eth4 - bridge br-main → Switch (SwOS)
Eth5 - bridge br-mgmt no VLANs → SSID MT-24 and MT-5 tied to this bridge along with the port so that I can mess with the other bridge to get the settings right, without losing connection. This part is working great but I’m not getting anywhere with the config of br-main and its ports
Question: should Eth2 and Eth3 be VLAN trunks with vlan-filtering turned on on the bridge?
From all the examples I am reading it tells me I need to turn on VLAN filtering on the bridge because this is the “new way” and is the only correct way to do VLANs that are compatible with the industry standard protocols. But then I end up with a strange message “port with pvid added to untagged group which might cause problems, consider adding a seperate VLAN entry” which I track down to this thread : http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/puzzling-bridge-vlan-warning/140606/1 which I think is telling me that my issue is that I have eth2 and eth3 (the CAPs) terminating on the bridge but not tagged trunk ports.
When I turn them on as tagged trunk ports and burn on VLAN filtering on br-main that whole bridge locks up.
I’ll post my config in a moment in another message.