First of all, vlan-filtering may be a slightly misleading name, but vlan-awareness may be equally misleading so I guess it can't be helped. The thing is that this setting affects the way how the bridge handles the VLAN tags. With yes, the bridge respects them and can add/strip them on ingress/egress; with no, it completely ignores them, handling tagged and tagless frames exactly the same. So as long as you don't want a bridge port to be an access one to a particular VLAN (i.e. adding the VLAN tag to ingress frames and stripping it from the egress ones) or limit the membership of ports in the VLANs, vlan-filtering does not need to be enabled to just allow tagged frames to flow through the bridge. The fact that you have added VLAN 3 as a permitted one to the wireless interface and the Ethernet one in configuration is simply ignored with vlan-filtering set to no.
Second, I never dove into the precise behavior too much, but I'd say that since the Mikrotik APs talk to non-Mikrotik clients in a way the latter ones can understand, and since the proprietary wireless frames are harmless in terms that they don't affect the operation of non-Mikrotik devices, there is no need to be nervous about extra features to be supported among Mikrotik devices. Other vendors do exactly the same. However, the choice between the 3-MAC-address mode and the 4-MAC-address one is definitely not an autonomous decision of the device - to use the 4-MAC-address mode, you have to set the mode of the client wireless interface to station-bridge rather than mere station. The AP adjusts the frame format to the requirements of each individual client, so both types of clients can happily coexist on the same AP and SSID.
Second, I never dove into the precise behavior too much, but I'd say that since the Mikrotik APs talk to non-Mikrotik clients in a way the latter ones can understand, and since the proprietary wireless frames are harmless in terms that they don't affect the operation of non-Mikrotik devices, there is no need to be nervous about extra features to be supported among Mikrotik devices. Other vendors do exactly the same. However, the choice between the 3-MAC-address mode and the 4-MAC-address one is definitely not an autonomous decision of the device - to use the 4-MAC-address mode, you have to set the mode of the client wireless interface to station-bridge rather than mere station. The AP adjusts the frame format to the requirements of each individual client, so both types of clients can happily coexist on the same AP and SSID.
Statistics: Posted by sindy — Sun Dec 31, 2023 3:46 pm