On Sat, 2024-03-16 at 10:17 +1300, Alexander Neilson wrote:
You may want to try station-pseudo bridge as the “AP” is not a MikroTik or compatible and station bridge does require some trickery internally.
Thanks, Alexander. After sending my first message n this I did read the docs a bit more carefully, and there is a proviso for station-bridge that it only works with RouterOS APs. So I tried station-pseudobridge, sadly with no more success. Which, as the docs say it should be avoided where possible, is possibly a good thing. Which only leaves station- pseudobridge-clone, which actually looks like better deal (although I will only be connecting one node to the Mikrotik anyway) The irritating thing is that I had this working a few years ago with a much older MikroTik (now dead).
You may find more benefit in just treating that tether connection the “internet circuit” for your router and still doing DHCP via your 951. A lot of phones (at least used to) limit their number of clients to ~5 and so very easy for you to have a device fail to connect and a hell of a time diagnosing / getting logs from the mobile phone.
There will only be one client - I want to treat the Mikrotik+phone as my "WAN", so only my main router will be connected (wired) to it. As if to an ADSL modem in bridge mode, I wonder why? :-) I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here - that I should route over wlan1 and double-NAT? Rather than bridge at all? I'd say that was an acceptable solution, except that if the wlan interface can't connect to the phone's AP, it's all a moot point. The wlan interface should IMHO be connecting to the phone OK, but it doesn't appear to be. I'll see if I can double check that, maybe the phone will tell me. BTW a scan done on the MikroTik does see the phone's AP. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@nullarbor.com.au, he/him) work +61 2 64957435 http://www.nullarbor.com.au mobile +61 428 957160 Please feel free to deal with this email during your own working hours.