Oh, yeah, a loopback. I have those everywhere.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Reed" <[email protected]> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:29:20 AM Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] The no ping if no association "feature" of v6 mikrotik 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? > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Butch Evans" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > 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). > > -- Scott Reed Owner NewWays Networking, LLC Wireless Networking Network Design, Installation and Administration Mikrotik Advanced Certified www.nwwnet.net (765) 855-1060 (765) 439-4253 Toll-free (855) 231-6239 _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20141217/9745a4c6/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
