Hi all,
sorry in advance if this has been asked before, I’ve searched on the forum but I still have doubts and want to confirm that I’m proceeding correctly.
I want to replicate a station setup I have with a Picostation M2 on a Groove 52HPn.
This picostation is connected, via ethernet, to a switch where a CPU is connected as well. Additionally the pico’s wireless interface is configured as Station and connects to an AP. Then with this setup I can connect a machine to the AP and access the CPU on the switch. In sum I’m bridging wlan and LAN on the picostation. Finally I have a static IP address on the bridge interface. A sophisticated drawing of the setup:
cpu (ethernet) <-> switch <-> (ethernet) picostation (wireless) <-----------> AP <-> (...) <-> (ethernet) my computer
I was only able to replicate this setup on routeros as:
IP > Addresses → set a static IP on the > wlan > interface
Bridge → Bridge wlan and lan interfaces
Wireless → Set mode as "> Station Pseudo bridge> "
Other setup I’ve tried was
IP > Addresses → set a static IP on the > bridge > interface
Bridge → Bridge wlan and lan interfaces
Wireless → Set mode as "> station> "
which is the most similar to the setup I have on the picostation. Nonetheless with the second I can access routerOS’s webpage but I cannot reach the CPU. With the first one everything seems ok.
After reading the documentation I read that “station” mode doesn’t allow for L2 bridging.
With all this my questions are:
- Is the first configuration the best to replicate my picostation behaviour?
- Is the lack of L2 bridging on “station” what makes the second configuration fail to do what I want?