I have an issue which I believe can easily be solved but I haven’t managed to find it myself (yet).
In rb2011 and rb3011 we have 2 switch groups.
When I master ports 1-5 and 6-10 if I have a VLAN tagged packet on port 5 it arrives fine on port1,2,3,4, also on the same on the second switch group if I have a tagged packet on port 9 I get it on port 6,7,8,10
The problem is when I want a tagged packet from port 9 for example to arrive to port1-5 and vise versa.
I tried by adding the 2 master ports 1,6 to a bridge but it doesn’t seem to work!
Can someone give me the tricky answer that I am missing?
When you have one extra VLAN that you want to bridge, the best solution is to add 2 VLAN interfaces with parent
interfaces ether2 and ether6, and VLAN tag correctly set, and then create an extra bridge and put those two VLAN
interfaces in that bridge.
I would name the VLAN interfaces like ether2.vlan10 and ether6.vlan10 when the VLAN tag is 10.
This extra bridge will then bridge the VLAN10 from one switch to the other.
It also appears to be possible to bridge the traffic including the VLAN tags but I never used that.
It could be a better solution when you just want to bridge “all VLAN traffic” (of several different VLAN tags)
“It also appears to be possible to bridge the traffic including the VLAN tags but I never used that”>>> Indeed I need that as I am not always sure of all the vlan tags to bridge them all… and it would look ugly too
but thank you anyway… let’s hope someone can advice us how to “switch” the 2 switch groups