Yes, don't put the WLAN in the bridge, just the admin address and use it
for pinging and management. We have several hundred devices setup this
way; a bridge with an IP address but with no interfaces.
If you use OSPF, but the bridge in the OSPF interfaces and the admin
subnet in the networks and OSPF will handle the routing.
On 12/17/2014 11:07 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
Wouldn't extra bridges decrease performance?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: "Butch Evans" <but...@butchevans.com>
To: mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 9:56:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] The no ping if no association "feature" of v6 mikrotik
On 11/24/2014 03:30 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote:
We have been doing some firmware upgrades on Mikrotiks from 5.26 to
6.22, and alarms start going off on a few of our locations. If we have
an AP that has no associations on it, you cannot ping the ip address of
the wireless card after upgrading to 6.22.
Is there a workaround for this? I have a few places where the alarms
are driving me crazy.
Create a bridge, add the wireless card to the bridge, put IP space on
the bridge. I, also, put an administrative MAC on the bridge interface.
By doing it this way, you could change the wlan card and no arp issues
for customers, plus, the interface is always running, so IP space is
always shared via ospf (it is likely this is the issue you are seeing
anyway).
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