Re: [smartBridges] AirBridges and Bridging.

[John Banes]

Only PPPoE will work with both the AirBridge and the WET11. When you try to use the hotspot through the Airbridge it will substitute it's own MAC address for the client computers address.   Here is the short version of what is happening. Your computer requests an address from the DHCP server and uses it's own MAC Address. this is passed through the airbridge and the mikrotik assigns the address, enters it and your MAC address in the arp table and sends it back to your computer. Now you try to send a TCP/IP packet to the mikrotik and the airbridge replaces your MAC address with its own MAC address and when it gets to the Mikrotik the MAC address doesn't match what is in the arp table so the Mikrotik won't respond. The WET11 suffers from the same problem.   John   ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Summers To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:11 PM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] AirBridges and Bridging. Yes. Kevin Summers KISTech Internet Services Inc. www.kistech.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of John Banes Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] AirBridges and Bridging. Are you using a Mikrotik Hotspot with the dhcp-pool method?   John ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Summers To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:34 AM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] AirBridges and Bridging. I've tried two other ABOs at this location, and tried all the different firmware versions. I'm going to attempt one more time today since we just kicked one guy off that had Nachi and was broadcasting ping and NetBios packets all over the place.   I'll let you know how it turns out. If we can't get the SB radio working today I'll be replacing it with a WET 11 to see how that goes. I just have to find a container to put it in for weatherproofing.   As for the ability to get an address, but not ping the gateway, I'm not sure. Once I changed to a different brand of radio I was able to ping the gateway, and pull up our HotSpot page. I couldn't do that with the ABO in place no matter what I tried. Kevin Summers KISTech Internet Services Inc. www.kistech.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of sB Tech Support Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [smartBridges] AirBridges and Bridging. This could be device specific problem. Have you tried to replace the unit? It is weird that client can get an IP address but couldn�t go anyway, does it able to ping to the accesspoint or gateway. As to the slowness, can it because of the recent virus hit? The problem should be something else, if not interference, collision, packet loss..   Alex sB Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Summers Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:24 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [smartBridges] AirBridges and Bridging.   Well, after fighting with this one connection for weeks I finally decided to swap the ABO for a different brand of radio. While it appears to be only able to pass one MAC address in client bridge mode, it's doing what it's supposed to do, and all the problems that we were having with the ABO went away.   A run down of the problems..   - Client could get an address from DHCP, but couldn't go   anywhere - PPPoE login worked, but speed was VERY slow and sporadic. - ABO worked better with 0.09.10 firmware, but the slowness   was killing the connection.   I tried changing radios, I tried different firmware versions, I spent a great deal of time and money on various things trying to fix this problem. Nothing worked except a different radio.   Does anyone happen to know if the WET11 will pass multiple MACs? Kevin Summers KISTech Internet Services Inc. www.kistech.com