Hi guys

I'm very new to Mikrotik (bought my first one yesterday) and intend to use is as Wireless Bridge to the main router to provide connectivity to a few clients which don't have wifi capabilities.

Main Router ))))~~~((((( Mikrotik Router ------->PC

Mikrotik is connected to the main router WIFI via pseudo bridge
Wlan and all ethernet ports are moved to the bridge.

I do see an IP lease (issued by the main router) in the client section of the RouterOS there is Internet available for the Mikrotik router - I can ping google dns from there just fine.

However that IP lease is not passed over to the ethernet ports, so clients connected to the Mikrotik router via cable don't have access to the Internet an LAN (ipconfing shows windows 169.x.x.x. IP)

I have tried a few things:
Removing RSTP
make interfaces trusted
Nothing worked

Is it a fault or work as designed?
Thank you very much

I've used station-pseudobridge mode in the past and its worked fine, havn't needed to do anything special just put in a bridge with an ethernet port

The wiki does say this

This mode is limited to complete L2 bridging of data to single device connected to station (by means of single MAC address translation) and some support for IPv4 frame bridging - bridging of non-IP protocols to more than one device will not work. Also MAC address translation limits access to station device from AP side to IPv4 based access - the rest of protocols will be translated by single MAC address translation and will not be received by station itself.

Implying it should only work with 1 device on the ethernet side, however I swear i've used it with multiple clients before without an issue.....
I'd like to hear a MikroTik rep confirm or deny that for sure. But that could be your problem, test with just 1 device, then try and add another one

If it doesn't, I wonder if you could use regular station mode and local-proxy-arp with the same subnet on both interfaces (not bridged) to make your own pseudo-bridge anyway (mikrotik responds with its own MAC address)

Hi,
At this moment the only device that is connected to mikrotik is a PC.
I can manually assign an IP to the connected pc and it will work. However what about the devices that don't support that.
This is so strange that such a simple thing that a $20 dollar extender can do is so difficult to implement with mikrotik.

Can somebody please advise

Thank you

It does work, there will be an explanation for whats going on, why it isn't working for you and a way to fix it. It may be something like your AP is blocking multiple DHCP requests (unlikely but you never know). The mikrotik does not need a lease, so disable that to start with, heck just do a system->reset configuration and tick no defaults, then just bridge ethernet and wlan and set it up as station-pseudobridge and connect. No DHCP or anything, mikrotik doesn't need it for access via winbox anyway. That's as simple as the configuration can get, if it's still not working then unfortunately i don't know

Hi millenium7, thank you so much for your advice, it was indeed the access point which doesn't allow multiple DHCP request to be assigned to clients.

I tested with the other 2 access points and got no issues at all.

It is an Aruba instant On, sort of semi-enterprise one, not sure what I can do about it

EDIT: This worked for me perfectly....until I rebooted the device, and now it wont work. Even after restoring a backup taken while it was working. I will update again if I find a cause.
EDIT 2: Looks like the issue was my ISP router. After restoring backups and starting again from scratch nothing worked. Until I rebooted my ISP router, then it worked perfectly again.

I just spent a week trying to get this to work (delayed mostly due to me being an idiot and locking myself out repeatedly, plus Christmas slowed me down a little). Wanted to share how I got it working somewhere for other people to find, and it seems to be related to your situation too.

I finally got it to work by turning on DHCP Relay from my Wireless interface. This points to the main routers IP address, and passes DHCP requests directly to the main router. No NATing involved.

Full setup I have:
Hardware: hAP AC
Software: 6.48
Initial Setup
Reset configuration with no default config
Bridge:
Bridged ALL ports that I might use (In my instance, I kept wlan1 disabled, as I don't want 2.4GHz, so all other ports, but you could set up a separate AP here)
Security Profile
Set up a new Security Profile to match the main routers details. I selected all authentication types and entered my main routers Wifi Password and saved.
Wireless
wlan2 set up as a "station-pseudobridge" set to 5GHz-only-AC (I did this to ensure I get the maximum throughput between the two routers)
Set the view for wlan2 configuration to Advanced Mode and set the Security Profile to the profile you set above.
Select Apply and then Scan...
Click Start and select the main routers SSID, then click Connect.
DHCP
Select IP > DHCP Relay
Add a new relay, putting in wireless interface (wlan2) and your main routers IP Address.
OPTIONAL: DHCP Client
You can set up to have the Bridge get an IP address from DHCP too, so you can connect to the unit without being directly connected. Just add a new DHCP Client, select the bridge name, and enable it. You will see it get an IP quite quickly.

Done. This was all I needed to do. No NAT, no special VLANs, etc. Each device plugged in is getting a unique IP within the same range as the rest of the network.

Note on setting it to AC Only :- When I had this as the broad 5GHz option, I found I was limited to 450Mbps, whereas when I switched to AC-only, I was topping out just over 1,000Mbps. I don't know if RouterBoardOS or the main router was selecting the lower options, but forcing it to AC worked perfectly.