Hi! At the moment I have connected two LANs (same IP network) via a 60GHz link with a RBwAPG60ad-A and a RBwAPG60ad. This way the wireless link is transparent and L2 crosses the street. Now I would like to divide the network in two different LANs and would like to use the RBwAPG60ad as a router between its ethernet interface (one network) and the wireless interface (second network). Then I could setup firewall rules to prevent certain clients access to the other net. Is it possible to set the RBwAPG60ad in station mode? In Winbox it gives me only the options of ap bridge, station bridge and bridge.
Thanks for any assistance.
If you remove the ethernet ports from the RouterOS bridge, then you can assign IP addresses to the ether1 interface and the radio becomes a router. You can do it on the CPE, the AP, or both.
Leave the AP as a bridge (unless you plan to add more CPE) and the CPE side as station bridge, and leave them as part of the RouterOS bridge. The wireless interfaces between the AP and any clients will act the same as a wired LAN.
If you do it only on the AP (remove ether1 interface from the bridge), then the AP becomes the router and the CPE(s) become part of the remote LAN. Since the AP (by default) puts all clients in the main bridge, if you added CPE, they’d all be in the same network together. This could be good or bad, depending on what you’re trying to accomplish (and assuming you or some other future reader wants to add a second, third, or more client radios).
If you remove the ether1 interface on the CPE/client side, then the wireless interfaces are part of the network the AP is plugged into and anything on the CPE’s ethernet port is a different network. You can then use the CPE radio as the router between the two. This is the simplest configuration and the one I recommend (very commonly used on MikroTik-based 2.4 and 5GHz fixed wireless networks).
If you remove the ether1 interface from both radios, then all the radios become routers and the wireless interfaces are the common LAN you route traffic across. It is more complicated, but keeps all LAN traffic from both ends from hitting the wireless network.
Thanks a lot! I was planing to remove the ether1 on the CPE side, thus making it a router. I have done similar setups on Airmax devices in the GUI, now my plan was to do it on the W60G. I was somehow irritated by the wiki that lacks the station mode for the W60G. But I will try as you write.