This laboratory explains the different configuration modes of a MikroTik device as a station or CPE.

The different modes are:

• station
• station WDS
• bridge
• pseudobridge
• pseudobridge clone.

MAC address translation in pseudobridge modes works by inspecting packets and creating a table of corresponding IP and MAC addresses.

All packets are sent to the AP with the MAC address used by pseudobridge, and the MAC addresses of the received packets are restored from the address translation table.

There is a single entry in the address translation table for all non-IP packets, therefore more than one host on the bridge network cannot reliably use non-IP protocols.

Note: Currently IPv6 does not work on pseudobridge