Hello everyone,
a few years ago, I bought this very typical 802.11 repeater: https://gembird.com/item.aspx?id=7921
It works as a repeater/wired client or AP reasonably well, given its price. Let's call it "Cheapy".
I discovered that Cheapy is capable of acting as a transparent station bridge when connected to an equally typical ISP-provided CPE (from ZTE) and observed it using the 4-address format and passing both IPv4 and IPv6.
A hAP ac, however, does not seem to be able to do that. According to https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:W ... tion_Modes, modes station-bridge and station-wds are not available when connecting to anything other than a RouterOS AP.
I would like to use this to connect to a 2.4 GHz AP, then repeat it over both 2.4 and 5 GHz (which repeater mode cannot do). I understand that the non-standardised nature of 802.11 bridging does not make things easy, but I was wondering what it is that Cheapy does better/different than MikroTik.
Any insights are appreciated. Thanks!