Wlan bridge to connect additional clients

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Hello,

I’ve been trying for hours to configure this setup, without success:

Router: hAP ac
Switch: CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD-IN

The router is in my room and connected to a modem. Computers are connected to the router via lan and wlan.
The switch is put into the basement because I want to have internet access there. I want to connect several devices to it (via lan cable only). It should behave as if the devices would be connected to the router in my room directly.

So I thought that I have to set up a wlan bridge (either WDS or EoIP).
I tried these tutorials and many more: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Testwiki/Advanced_MikroTik_Wireless_networks#To_Bridge_two_wireless_networks_using_EoIP
But nothing seems to work. Either I lose internet access on the router or the internet becomes very slow and Winbox disconnects frequently.

Everything is in default configuration.
On both router and switch there’s already the default “bridge”. I kept it and added the eoip-tunnel to it. The wlan interface(s) are added to that bridge by default already.
The eoip-tunnel keeps going to “inactive”, the ARP list shows double entries without MAC address, and the problems stated above occur. Pinging to the remote wlan IPs times out.
Default IPs on router and switch are: 192.168.88.1/24 bridge
I added these:
Router 192.168.89.1/24 wlan1
Switch 192.168.89.2/24 wlan1

I would highly appreciate an idea for the most basic setup to get this done.

Thank you!

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If I understand your wishes correct, then you need to properly configure wlan interfaces of both RBs. When that part is done right, CRS and everything behind it will transparently become part of your LAN, rooted at hAP ac. And for that, the wireless connection between hAP ac and CRS has to be in some kind of “bridge” mode.

IIRC default setting for wireless interfaces is ap-bridge … which should be fine to serve both as AP for “normal” WiFi clients and the CRS for bridging.

On CRS, wlan interface needs to be set to “station-bridge” mode to make things work in true transparent mode. See Wiki.

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Hey,

thanks for your reply.
I forgot to state here that I have already contacted a consultant and everything is configured now.
There’s a slight problem left but if I can’t solve it, I’ll open a new topic for that (TCP connections are established very slowly from one side).

Regards,
netter