I have a RB751u-2hnd, setup as default with some minor changes (e.g. PPPoE connection on WAN interface). Ether ports 2-5 are switched - but I want to remove port 5 from the switch group, so I can assign a separate DHCP server to this port (and then do more things).
I changed the ether 5 master port to none:
interface ethernet print
Flags: X - disabled, R - running, S - slave
# NAME MTU MAC-ADDRESS ARP MASTER-PORT SWITCH
0 R ether1-gateway 1500 00:0C:42:E2:1C:CB enabled
1 R ether2-master-local 1500 00:0C:42:E2:1C:CC enabled none switch1
2 RS ether3-slave-local 1500 00:0C:42:E2:1C:CD enabled ether2-master-local switch1
3 S ether4-slave-local 1500 00:0C:42:E2:1C:CE enabled ether2-master-local switch1
4 R ether5-alone 1500 00:0C:42:E2:1C:CF enabled none switch1
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And it successfully detects when a device is plugged in.
However, I cannot get a DHCP server to run, and if I look in the ‘Switch’ panel at the ‘Hosts’ tab, I see no record/MAC address of the device plugged into ether 5. I don’t know the terminal code to print this out to show.
My question is, do I need to do anything else to separate the ether 5 interface? I still have a bridge between WLAN and Ether 2:
interface print
Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave
# NAME TYPE MTU L2MTU MAX-L2MTU
0 R wlan1 wlan 1500 2290
1 R ether1-gateway ether 1500 1600 4076
2 R ether2-master-local ether 1500 1598 2028
3 R ether3-slave-local ether 1500 1598 2028
4 ether4-slave-local ether 1500 1598 2028
5 R ether5-alone ether 1500 1598 2028
6 R bridge-local bridge 1500 1598
7 R pppoe-out1
My DHCP server on ether5 is declared invalid, but I want to check I am not doing something wrong with the port?
Thanks for any help.