Bought a RB750GL instead of a switch

RouterOS General
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I bought a RB750GL instead of a switch (with a RB2011 as my main router), mainly because I wanted the smaller sized unit so it fit in the structured wiring panel for my home theater, however the performance isn’t quite as good as I’d like (I’m assuming it’s a side effect of being bridged). Is there any other settings on the 750GL I should change to ensure optimal performance when using it as a switch.

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yep, dont use a bridge interface. set all ports to master of one. e.g.

/interface ethernet
set 1 master-port=ether1
set 2 master-port=ether1
set 3 master-port=ether1
set 4 master-port=ether1

this will use the switch chip instead of the cpu

3

I get “interface is already master-port of some other interface” the 750GL should support this function since it has the Atheros 8327 chip-set, is there something else I need to do to disable routing?

4

I get “interface is already master-port of some other interface” the 750GL should support this function since it has the Atheros 8327 chip-set, is there something else I need to do to disable routing?

5

Well it wasn’t working, but I did get it to work eventually. I had to disable the router package in the system. It seems that tied up ether1.

So what I ended up doing

  1. Disabled the Router Interface
  2. Disabled the Firewall (since that’s handled on the main router, but you could also just create rules to allow management over ether1)
  3. Set the master port on all ports to none first
  4. Set the master port to ether1

Once that was done I could still log into management, and it’s now a switch - it took some trial and error.