1016-12G with Trunk to Cisco 3560

RouterOS General
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Having spent 6hrs trying to figure out how to configure a CCR1016-12G with a Trunk port connected to my Cisco 3560 with no success, I learned it doesn’t have a switch chip. So several questions:

  1. Can I still use the 1016-12G with a Trunk port to my 3560? If so how do I configure it?

Basically I want Ether1 as a Trunk to my Cisco 3560, passing all the network VLANs. VLAN 10 should be assigned the ip 192.168.10.10/23 The MikroTik will be used to host several MPLS connections, routing them to the correct vlans.

  1. If I can not, what MikroTik product would you suggest?

Thanks in advance.

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Yes you can setup any port on mikrotik router as a trunk port and add mutiple vlans to that interface. for example

/interface vlan
add comment=Backbone interface=ether1 name=vlan10 vlan-id=10
/ip address
add address=192.168.10.10/23 interface=vlan10 network=192.168.10.0
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Worked like I expected. I had been trying to use a bridge with the VLANs assigned to it, obviously the wrong thing. I knew it was something stupid I was missing or doing, sigh.

Thanks for the help.