Wireless bridge in CAPsMAN network

RouterOS General
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Hi,

my current network setup contains a 192.168.0.0/24 network which has two CAPs devices running which are managed by a CAPsMAN (192.168.0.254). Now I want to add an mAP2n which provides a wireless bridge for two devices which are connected to them by ether1 and ether2. What is most stuitable technique here?

As far as I know all CAPs are running in AP mode this means for me I cannot do a “AP Bridge” to “Station Bridge” like described here: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/wireless-bridge-solved-with-wds/94807/1
How about WDS?
Does it make sense to setup an EoIP Tunnel to my gateway and then bridge this interface on my mAP2n to both ethernet interfaces. To be honest I got transmit loops during tests so my tunnel interfaces were disabled… Is it because I am already in this network which I want to bridge?!

Thanks for your ideas!

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Just put the map2n in station pseudo bridge and bridge the 3 interfaces (wlan0, eth1 and 2)

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This link here says you should not do that whenever possible: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Wireless_Station_Modes#Mode_station-pseudobridge
I would feel better if there is another alternative. :smiley:

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Sorry but I don’t know how this is related to my question?! :confused:

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Currently I am testing the wireless bridge feature with EoIP. But I do have some trouble…
Here is the setup:

<=======EoIP Tunnel IPv4======>bridge eth1 and eth2 <====ethernet cable====> devices
CoreRouter <==== wireless link====> mAP2n
192.168.0.254(ether2) 192.168.0.205 (wlan)

The EoIP tunnel between the CoreRouter and the mAP2n is running fine but the devices do not receive any DHCP IP address. Is it a problem that the EoIP Tunnel is in the same subnet than the network we like to bridge over the tunnel?! Is this allowed?

The CoreRouter Tunnel end is bridged to ether2 which has the IP 192.168.0.254. On the other end the tunnel (192.168.0.205) is bridged to ether1 and ether2.