I plan to have 3 Mikrotik routers on my network. One will be setup as a router, the other two will be setup as a bridge (and wireless access point). To all three Mikrotik devices wired and wireless devices will connect when in range.
I’ll use VLANs on my main router.
The question: will the other two bridges (Mikrotik routers) respect VLAN tags out of the box or do I need to setup something, so that VLAN will work on every connected device?
By default it will behave as a dumb switch, that is it will ignore VLAN tags. When it comes to the point where RB’s CPU kicks in (either management connectivity or bridging between ethernet switch and other devices, such as wifi) it will probably not be as simple. But it might as well just work.
I’d rather properly configure all involved RBs for VLANs.
I would assume that for the other two routers, you would be treating it as an AP/switch type scenario.
In this case the other secondary routers would get an IP on the main LAN from the primary router (much like a managed switch or cap AC would do).
You would need to define only a few things…
You would need to define the ethports on both devices as to the bridge they will be using (each device has its own bridge).
The same with WLANs!
You would need to define the vlans that go to/through the secondary routers and their parent interface is the bridge on that device.
You would have to put the WLANs and etherports as belonging to Bridge Ports.
The DHCP setup for the vlans is done on the main router.
The wireless settings as appropriate for each device.