issue with dhcp-server and vlans and console access

[Buckeye]

Make no mistake buckeye, all the good information in that Router OS site, on this topic, is based upon the authors gleaning information from existing threads and for a large part the user articles that relate. Before this new site, which is getting much better, the older WIKI was bare bones and from my perspective not all that useful for the untrained.

I didn’t mean to diminish anything in the forum, but as with all forums, some posts are more useful than others, and an uninitiated reader has to know enough to be able to tell which posts are correct, and which posts are diversions, or not correct. And this forum at least no longer has any indicators of trust-worthyness (no voting or kudos). And I do understand that votes are not a very accurate indication of anything, just like amazon reviews.

I also wouldn’t consider the help article to be a tutorial about what vlans are, and when they should be used. For that there are other web resources. For beginners, I like Ed Harmoush’s Practical Networking site, and his youtube videos. He has several videos on vlans that I recommend often. VLANs — Index

Too many people don’t really understand the fundamentals of networking, and without a good foundation, intelligent troubleshooting is impossible. I don’t consider making random changes to see if it solves the problem to be a good method; it’s what I call the Edison method.

The help articles do read more like a book or tutorial. I don’t know the source, maybe a lot was originally from the forum, but I found it was more organized than a bunch of individual posts by multiple authors, each responding to different parts of different posts in a thread. Each has its place, but I just wanted to let MiktroTik know that I did find the help articles to be a useful resource, and to thank them for updating the documentation with some new v7 information.

I was just noting that I found it reasonably easy to understand, and that I was able to map my previous knowledge about vlans to the way that MikroTik does vlans with the “new” Bridge method. But I had already read multiple posts in the forums, and had already formed most of my new mental model, so when I found the help articles, they were primarily reinforcement, and confirmation.

The other advantage of the help article is that they apparently are being updated to cover v7, and right now, there are not many other sources other than the forum.