Wifi and ether9 same subnet?

RouterOS General
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I have a RB493G and I want to setup my wlan1 and ether9 to be on the same subnet.

My wlan1 is 192.168.2.0
I set added an IP to ether9 with my media servers IP 192.168.2.101.

I created a bridge and that works but now my DHCP server for the wlan1 shows invalid. When I remove the bridge the error goes away. I am not sure why this is happening.

Is there a way I can route the traffic to and from my media server without the bridge from the wifi to ether9?

Thanks

2

you normaly can have wlan in one subnet and ether9 in other. You can set wlan ip address as gateway for wlan clients and ether9 ip address as gateway for clients connected to ether9 and they should comunicate to each other without a problem

3

I tried that and it did not work.

I switched to ether2 from ether9 for my media server

I set ether2 to 192.168.2.100/24

My media server is now 192.168.2.101/24
the gateway is 192.168.2.100
when I try to ping 192.168.2.100 i get nothing. Then if I disable the IP of wlan1 (192.168.2.1) I get a ping response from 192.168.2.100.

I have to be doing something wrong. Any thoughts?

4

Never mind. It was a bad case of user error.

Thanks for the help.

5

specifically dhcp-server should not be set on the bridge port, instead it has to be set on the bridge interface. And for safety set up ip address on bridge interface too.

One more thing, if you are having bridge with DHCP-server better set admin-mac manually so that bridge interface has no chance to change mac address when ports whose mac address is in use goes down it does not change.

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Thanks for the tip. I did what you said and now everything is just as I wanted it to be. That is cool that you can set the IP and the dhcp server on the bridge interface.

Thanks again!