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. Even if pseudo bridge works 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. Regards Alexander Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited 021 329 681 alexander@neilson.net.nz
On 16 Mar 2024, at 02:30, Karl Auer via Public <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> wrote:
I'm trying to use a spare Mikrotik router - an old 951G-2hnD - as a sort of media converter.
The idea is that it associates with a mobile phone hotspot, and provides wired access to it. However, I want LAN-side devices to get their IP addresses from the phone, not the Mikotik.
To that end I first reset the router to the default configuration. Then I configured the wireless interface as "mode=station-bridge", and added the phone's SSID. In the relevant security profile I set authentication-mode to wpa-psk and wpa2-psk, and put the phone's key into wpa-pre-shared-key and wpa2-preshared-key. The wireless interface and all the LAN ports are already in a bridge. I split one off and moved the dhcp-server and IP address to it so I have a management interface. The bridge thus has no dhcp-server on it, and no IP address.
I was sort of expecting that to work, but a client connecting to a LAN port does not get an IP address. The wireless interface does not enter "running" state. SSID and passphrase have been checked. The phone definitely supports wpa2. I can connect to the phone from a laptop. There are no firewall rules that would affect the bridge.
What did I forget?
Regards, K.
PS: Context: Internode shut down our ADSL link with no warning. They say they emailed me, but they didn't. So I am trying to turn a mobile phone hotspot into a WAN connection :-)
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