Router in repeater mode - clients do not receive IP. How to fix?

Question

Computer networks

Good afternoon!
There is a Zyxel modem (GPON, MGTS) at 192.168.1.1 - it distributes the Internet over the LAN, a
DHCP server is running on it. Clients of this router receive IP addresses without any problems.
And there is a mikrotik router on .. and I understood where (I go by MAC), but somewhere in the same subnet. configured in repeater mode. DHCP server is disabled. All interfaces are combined into a bridge, on the bridge the DHCP client is constantly in the "searching" status.
Clients connect to mikrotik, you can see it in the "Registration list" of the virtual wi-fi interface, but such clients cannot get IP.
How normal is this? Is it possible to somehow fix it or should the DHCP server be transferred to the router 192.168.1.11?

Answer 1

microsha for some reason can not get the address, try to start with static.
And how can you not know where it is?

Answer 2

What is the Mode on the Wlan interface?
Try station bridge.
The second moment, it is not necessary to do all interfaces in bridge.
You need to add only master port and wlan to Bridge.
If you have two switch ports in mikrotik, then both master ports are in the bridge.
The easiest. Open Wlan, select Wireless.
Click Scan , find your network and click Connect.
Before that, you need to configure the Security profile. Switch to station bridge mode.

Answer 3

Thanks for the advice, it worked! (True, with the repeater, the Internet became even slower in hard-to-reach places, but that's another story)
I have no idea what the problem was.
But the DHCP client configured on Mikrotik was able to switch to the bound status only after I reserved an IP for it on the router 192.168.1.11 (Netis WF2780) (I didn’t have to do this with other clients).
ps I found an article ( https://www.lanmart.ru/blogs/Mikrotik-dlja-puteshe... - here, well, it was very popular to chew on how to set up a repeater.