Getting started with VLAN by following forum post

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I’ve been on Mikrotik a while but trying to venture into some of the intermediate topics. Right now I am trying to offload all questionable devices on the network to its own VLAN. My home router is RB2011 but I’m trying this out on a spare hEX RB750Gr3.

I’m following the post here: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/using-routeros-to-vlan-your-network/126489/1
Specifically the section: Switch with a separate router (RoaS)

I was hoping to get this running on the Gr3 and then tweak to my needs. I copied the file on the forum and made some changes. I removed the 3 lines that were pertaining to the ISP since i just want to see the VLAN work internally. I added the DHCP server on the trunk. And finally I removed the enabling of filtering since I expected to get locked out at this point.

I uploaded the file to the router and used the import command to load it after I confirmed there was no config loaded. I tried this multiple times and either I cant connect to the router at all (even with WinBox) or I dont get an IP. Any ideas of what I am doing wrong? Does the Gr3 not support this? Should I try this on the RB2011 instead? Is it me?
routerEdited.rsc (6.73 KB)

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It is not a good idea to just load such a large config file into a router and hope the best of it…
The loading of the config will stop at the first minor problem it encounters, and then you are in some unknown state (and you cannot see the error message either).
The issue often is that the config presumes an empty start, and your router is not empty and already has some of the config this file tries to load.

When you really want to experiment with such things, open a telnet session to the router or open a terminal window in the gui, and then copy/paste from the example into that window and see how it reacts.
First only one or two lines, then when you become more familiar with it you can often paste an entire group of commands.

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The file loads successfully though and there was no base config of any kind

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I would start instead from the default settings and then change the config slowly to where it needs to be.
Bulk config injects rarely works unless you really know what you are doing.
When doing copy and paste from other configs I limit it to section by section (and knowing what the change will affect out of that section).