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    Mikrotik SXT - Bridging Network

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    This document discusses how to establish a wireless point-to-point network connection between two Mikrotik RouterBOARD SXT devices using their wireless capabilities. It provides step-by-step instructions on configuring one SXT as a wireless bridge and the other as a wireless station-bridge. Key steps include changing the wireless mode on each device, disabling NAT and firewall rules, creating a bridge interface, and adding the ethernet and wireless ports. This creates a transparent wireless connection to bridge the two networks connected to each SXT device's ethernet port.

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    Mikrotik SXT - Bridging Network

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    This document discusses how to establish a wireless point-to-point network connection between two Mikrotik RouterBOARD SXT devices using their wireless capabilities. It provides step-by-step instructions on configuring one SXT as a wireless bridge and the other as a wireless station-bridge. Key steps include changing the wireless mode on each device, disabling NAT and firewall rules, creating a bridge interface, and adding the ethernet and wireless ports. This creates a transparent wireless connection to bridge the two networks connected to each SXT device's ethernet port.

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    This document discusses how to establish a wireless point-to-point network connection between two Mikrotik RouterBOARD SXT devices using their wireless capabilities. It provides step-by-step instructions on configuring one SXT as a wireless bridge and the other as a wireless station-bridge. Key steps include changing the wireless mode on each device, disabling NAT and firewall rules, creating a bridge interface, and adding the ethernet and wireless ports. This creates a transparent wireless connection to bridge the two networks connected to each SXT device's ethernet port.

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    Mikrotik SXT - Bridging Network

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    This document discusses how to establish a wireless point-to-point network connection between two Mikrotik RouterBOARD SXT devices using their wireless capabilities. It provides step-by-step instructions on configuring one SXT as a wireless bridge and the other as a wireless station-bridge. Key steps include changing the wireless mode on each device, disabling NAT and firewall rules, creating a bridge interface, and adding the ethernet and wireless ports. This creates a transparent wireless connection to bridge the two networks connected to each SXT device's ethernet port.

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    Bridging Networks with mikrotik SXT

    Two RouterBOARD SXT devices can be used to establish transparent wireless point-to-point
    network link. There are multiple options how to do that. This guide shows the most simple and
    easiest way how to do that by using bridge wireless mode on one side and station-bridge wireless
    mode on the other side.

    RouterBOARD SXT devices has only Level 3 RouterOS license, but even with that it is possible
    to make wireless connection between two SXT devices.

    Contents
    1 Make connection to the RouterBOARD SXT
    2 Configure the first SXT device to the wireless bridge mode
    3 Configure the second SXT device to the wireless station-bridge mode
    4 Finetuning the RouterOS configuration to get the max speed

    Make connection to the RouterBOARD SXT

    There are multiple ways how to connect to the RouterBOARD (winbox, webfig, telnet, ssh, ...),
    but this guide will show how to configure the device using Winbox utility. Winbox utility can be
    downloaded from the MikroTik webpage ( Winbox) or from the RouterBOARDs webpage. The
    SXT device by default has IP address 192.168.88.1 configured as a default IP address on the
    ethernet interface. In order to connect to the SXT device make sure your computers IP address
    range is form the same network address space. Connect the ethernet cable from the PC to the
    SXT device and power it on. Open the Winbox utility and in the "Connect To" field write the IP
    address of the SXT device. If it can't connect click on the "..." button to search for a RouterOS
    based devices. In that discovery windows select the SXT device IP or MAC which you found
    and click Connect.
    Configure the first SXT device to the wireless bridge mode

    SXT device has build in default wireless configuration already, so only few changes are needed
    to be done. Open Wireless menu and select the wireless interface. Change the Mode setting to
    "bridge" and specify the "frequency" on which the wireless radio will be operating. If you don't
    see your countries allowed frequencies, then click in the "Advanced Mode" and chose your
    country from the "country" dropbox field and then chose the frequency. It is recommended to use
    the frequency that is in the bold in the wireless frequency drop down field. It is suggested to
    click on a "Apply" after each setting change as if you configure some setting incorrectly every
    setting will be reverted to the previous state (not recommended when the link is already active
    and running).
    Disable the NAT (masquerade) rule in the IP Firewall NAT menu as it is not needed when the
    transparent wireless setupo is used. Disable the Firewall rule the IP Firewall Filter Input chain.
    Disable the DHCP server and DHCP client as they are not needed in the transparent wireless
    setup. Go to the IP DHCP Server menu and disable the server. Go to the IP DHCP Client menu
    and disable the client.
    Create a Bridge interface and add add ethernet and wireless interface to the bridge ports. Open
    Bridge menu and click on "+" and press OK. Open Bridge Ports menu and add 2 entries, one
    with ethernet interface added to the bridge and second with wireless interfaces added to the
    bridge.
    It is advised to do so as the default IP address that the SXT device usually is used only for initial
    configuration as you may confuse the SXT device with the other one if they both will be online
    in the same network. Add an IP address to the bridge interface to communicate to the router after
    the SXT device will be deployed in the network. IP address can be added from the IP Address
    menu.
    The basic configuration for the Bridge mode device is done.

    Configure the second SXT device to the wireless station-bridge mode

    Connect to the second SXT device the same way as it is described in first step. Configuration of
    the second SXT device is similar to the first one.

    Open Wireless menu and select the wireless interface. Change the Mode setting to "station-
    bridge". Make sure that you use the same country as the first SXT device. In order to change the
    country setting you need to click on the "Advanced Mode" button and then you will see the
    country field.

    [image with station-bridge and county]

    Disable the NAT (masquerade) rule in the IP Firewall NAT menu as it is not needed when the
    transparent wireless setupo is used. Disable the Firewall rule the IP Firewall Filter Input chain.

    [image on NAT disable and filter disable]

    Disable the DHCP server and DHCP client as they are not needed in the transparent wireless
    setup. Go to the IP DHCP Server menu and disable the server. Go to the IP DHCP Client menu
    and disable the client.

    [image with both menus]


    Create a Bridge interface and add add ethernet and wireless interface to the bridge ports. Open
    Bridge menu and click on "+" and press OK. Open Bridge Ports menu and add 2 entries, one
    with ethernet interface added to the bridge and second with wireless interfaces added to the
    bridge.

    [image with bridge port add dialog for both interfaces]

    It is advised to do so as the default IP address that the SXT device usually is used only for initial
    configuration as you may confuse the SXT device with the other one if they both will be online
    in the same network. Add an IP address to the bridge interface to communicate to the router after
    the SXT device will be deployed in the network. IP address can be added from the IP Address
    menu.

    [image with IP address adding]

    The basic configuration for the Station-bridge device is done.

    Finetuning the RouterOS configuration to get the max speed

    After both devices are configured you should be able to see from the station-bridge device that
    the wireless connection is established. It also means that the transparent setup should be working
    fine and you should be able to communicate between both networks that are connected to the
    SXT ethernet sides.

    [image with wireless monitor on station-bridge]

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