Bridge to manage VLANs bandwidth.

RouterOS General
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Dear all,

I have this situation on my network:

INTERNET — MT-Router ==== X ====== Cisco-Catalyst — UsersPC


From MT Router to Cisco Catalyst, many VLANs already established.
Can i place mikrotik bridge on the X to manage the bandwidth over many VLANs in there?

Thanks

2

yes, you can. just bridge two interfaces and then use Bridge->Filters, Advanced, VLANs

3

Yup
i got an error

vlan matchers only valid on vlan interface.
Should i add interface vlan with the same id on bridge ?

thanks

4

hmmm… maybe ‘vlan matchers only valid for vlan ethernet protocol’? in General tab, select MAC Protocol = vlan

5

ok . i did this and choosed “action=mark packet” . this packet mark is for all of bandwidth which goes through bridge. now how can i use this for Traffic Prioritization for example mangle the p2p traffic in that packet mark ?

6

no suggestion ?

i have searched forum and even internet but nothing useful.

7

use Queue Tree

8

Thanks for reply. i already did Queue Tree with combination of Interfaces but the queue always is 0B. actually it can not see the packets which go through the bridge.

the packet mark that i made in bridge increases and the ether1 and ether2 (ports of the bridge) showing the correct bandwidth but when i use this packet mark in the queue it shows 0B .

i think this is related to network layers . the traffic (which is in 10 different VLANs) goes through the bridge . but the bridge itself can not see the packets inside the VLANs . it just see vlan1 , vlan2 etc.

i tested the traffic that goes through bridge with TORCH and Packet Sniffer . the torch does not see anything ( the bridge is 2.9 and torch has not VLAN ID) but the packet sniffer says 100% of traffic is VLAN.

then i have added my vlan ids to the bridge and each vlan shows the traffic but again the queues does not work .

now what is the solution ?