Help about trunking / vlans

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello,

I plan to replace my Ubiquiti UDM-SE with an Mikrotik CCR2116-12G-4S+ and my Ubiquiti 10G Aggregation with a Mikrotik CRS317-1G-16S+RM.

I’ve tried to play around with the RouterOS7 in a few vms in proxmox / vmware workstation on my PC, but i can’t setup a single trunk port nor assign a vlan to a port.

While I have experience on Cisco, Stormshield & Unifi, i can’t grasp the vlan thing with mikrotik.
What am i missing ?

How do i :

  • create my LACP bond between the CCR2116-12G-4S+ and the CRS317-1G-16S+RM / add a trunk to it ? Should i create a bridge and assign vlans to it ? Because if i add the vlan directly to the bond, i won’t be able to use the on the ethernets ports right ?

Thanks

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Both products will work very well with a single bridge and ALL vlans ( bridge does no dhcp).
The main difference is the switch will get an IP address from the Management/Trusted VLAN
The only vlan that needs to be identified on the switch is the Management/Trusted vlan, the rest are in one port out other ports…
Also, the switch in /interface bridge vlan settings, will only have the bridge tagged on the management/trusted vlan-id

Please read the best reference: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/using-routeros-to-vlan-your-network/126489/1
Video example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLtGQAQ8iS0&t=1118s