Transparent Mikrotik

Wyze Base Station created an interesting conundrum for my network. Unlike most IoT devices, it requires a cable connection. Place where I wanted to place it didn’t have any. So, the choice was to either bring a new cable or figure some other method. Of course, some other method it is.

As often, my hammer for those situation was Mikrotik device. In this case mAP lite. Idea was to create a transparent bridge (or as close to it as possible) between the Base Station and my network. Ideally, it would even keep MAC address of base station.

This is what I ended up going with:

/interface wireless
set [ find default-name=wlan1 ] ssid=^^SSID^^ mode=station-pseudobridge frequency=auto 

/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] authentication-types=wpa2-psk wpa2-pre-shared-key=^^key^^

/interface bridge
add name=bridge1 protocol-mode=none

/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridge1 interface=wlan1
add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether1

First step was to switch wireless into station-pseudobridge mode. While it has a lot of warnings (mostly due to L2 bridging being tricky with wireless), it’s actually ideal for this situation as one device it connects to will be the sole user of it.

Once wireless security has been setup, all remaining is to create a bridge with both wireless and wired interface.

And that’s it.