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Transparently Bridge Two Networks

This document describes how to transparently bridge two networks using MikroTik RouterOS. The steps are: 1. Create a bridge interface on the access point (AP) and station, and add the Ethernet and wireless interfaces to the bridges. 2. Configure the wireless interfaces on the AP and station for WDS mode to establish the wireless link. 3. Add the WDS interface to the bridge on the AP, which will bridge traffic between the Ethernet and wireless networks. 4. Add IP addresses to the bridge interfaces to test connectivity across the bridged networks.

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Transparently Bridge Two Networks

This document describes how to transparently bridge two networks using MikroTik RouterOS. The steps are: 1. Create a bridge interface on the access point (AP) and station, and add the Ethernet and wireless interfaces to the bridges. 2. Configure the wireless interfaces on the AP and station for WDS mode to establish the wireless link. 3. Add the WDS interface to the bridge on the AP, which will bridge traffic between the Ethernet and wireless networks. 4. Add IP addresses to the bridge interfaces to test connectivity across the bridged networks.

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Transparently Bridge two Networks

From MikroTik Wiki

Remote networks can be easily bridged using WDS feature of MikroTik RouterOS™. We
will show it for the case when the networks are connected through Atheros wireless
interface. Using EoIP, the can be extended to any other type of interfaces, like PPTP and
CISCO/Aironet. WDS works only on Prism and Atheros based cards.

Let us assume the following network setup:

Follow the steps below to create transparent bridge using WDS:

1. Create a bridge interface on AP and add ether1 interface to the bridge in WinBox
or in console

[admin@AP]> interface bridge add name=wds-bridge


[admin@AP]> interface bridge port add interface=ether1 bridge=wds-bridge

Do the same on the Station, and add ether1, wlan1 interfaces to the bridge in Winbox
or in console

[admin@Station]> interface bridge add name=wds-bridge


[admin@Station]> interface bridge port add ether1 bridge=wds-bridge
[admin@Station]> interface bridge port add wlan1 bridge=wds-bridge

2. Make sure you have communication between MikroTik routers, i.e., one router is
configured as server (AP), the other one as client (station). Configure wireless interface
wlan1 on AP in WinBox
or in conslole

[admin@AP]> interface wireless set wlan1 ssid=MikroTik frequency=5805 \


\... mode=bridge disabled=no

Do the same configuration on Client wireless interface (wlan1) in Winbox


or in console

[admin@Station] interface wireless> set wlan1 mode=station-wds \


\... ssid=MikroTik disabled=no

3. Create wds interface on AP and add the interface to the bridge in WinBox
or in console

[admin@AP] interface wireless> set wlan1 wds-mode=dynamic \


\... wds-default-bridge=wds-bridge

4. Check whether the WDS link is established in WinBox

or in console

[admin@AP] interface wireless wds> print


Flags: X - disabled, R - running, D - dynamic
0 RD name="wds1" mtu=1500 mac-address=00:0B:6B:30:B4:A4 arp=enabled
disable-running-check=yes master-interface=wlan1
wds-address=00:0B:6B:35:E5:5C

4. Add IP address on AP in WinBox

or in console

[admin@AP]> ip address add address=10.1.0.215/24 interface=wds-bridge

And on Station:

[admin@Station]> ip address add address=10.1.0.216/24 interface=wds-


bridge
5. Test the bridge by pinging from 10.0.0.215 to 10.0.0.216. Note, that the bridge needs
10...30s to learn addresses and start passing through traffic.

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