Brouter mode?

RouterOS General
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I have always built routed networks so brouter is a bit of a wierd way to operate for me. But I seem to have a case where I need brouter mode.

I have a large sports venue where we have built a large ROS deployment. They have 108mbit WDS nstreme links between the various arenas and sporting venues. We have routed each link to keep the network nice and segmented.

The problem is when the major TV networks set up to video events, they use a strange bit of software to communicate with the scoreboards and timers for putting the scores and such on the bottom of the TV screen. The problem is the software uses only UDP broadcast traffic. We know the 80 or so ports that the software typically uses (each network uses it’s own set of ports it seems).

We need to bridge these 80 or so UDP ports through our routers. Everything else should remain routed.

I am not sure the best place to start with this. In the Add brouter dialog, the port options are greyed out. I have enabled conntrack.

any ideas?

2

I would make a VLAN for this kind of traffic so you get a flat L2 net through all your routers.

Regards

Henrik

3

the network is a routed one so we would have to encp the VLANS in an EOIP tunnel. Plus it would require a signifigant hardware expenditure to upgrade the clients hundreds of unmanaged switches.

This way it costs nothing and works great.

It is just a bear to setup all the filters on every backhaul radio.