General • Re: station v station-bridge mode

New wifi drivers for AX (and select AC) have a few differences compared to legacy wireless drivers:

• AP-bridge mode is merged into AP mode
• they only support protocol=802.11 ... no more support for (proprietary) nstreme or nv2
• station-bridge mode in wifi is not compatible with station-bridge in wireless. To build transparent wireless bridge one has to use devices running same generation of driver on both ends (it can be wifi-qcom on one end and wifi-qcom-ac on other end)

The first bullet is more or less an esthetic change (can bite unsuspecting admin though). Other two are more painful but MT doesn't seem to be able (or want to) to change it. So it seems we'll have to live with it.

There's a nice article about different station modes here: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/R ... tion+Modes

It apllies to new wifi drivers as well (OK, no nsteme and nv2 on wifi) ... with a gotcha that wifi AP to wireless client (or the other way around) is as if they are from different vendors.

Statistics: Posted by mkx — Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:31 am

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