Completely confused about VLANs

[Jotne]

Here are some to read:

Using RouterOS to VLAN your network

Title: Using RouterOS to VLAN your network Welcome: This article is for system integrators, network administrators, and product enthusiasts looking for the definitive guide on how to design and setup VLAN networks using MikroTik. Follow along the light reading material and diagrams that make learning about VLAN an enjoyable topic. See the theory and then deep dive into the actual commands to implement it all. We'll discuss Access, Trunk and Hybrid ports, switching and routing, and guest acces…

Basic Understanding Bridge, VLAN, Switch, ...

Hi all together and a happy new year. As I’m levelling up my network, I reached the point everybody here sooner or later digs into: VLAN configuration. After reading the last two weeks here and there, believing to understand the not always so clear documentation and following the tutorial from pcunite here: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/using-routeros-to-vlan-your-network/126489/1 I finally spend 2 hours last night to restore the basic / default configuration. As I like to understand what I do, b…

Here you see my struggle to learn:
Sofware VLAN/Bridge on RuterOS explained.

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Use Splunk> to log/monitor your MikroTik Router(s). See link below.

MikroTik->Splunk