HELP! need to set up rather simple network...

RouterOS General
1

Hey, after 3 days and many hours of dicking around with the config on my new CRS305-1G-4S+IN, filing to set up what I set out to do.. I humbly have to reach out for help :frowning:.

Desired setup (Recommendations to optimize ok):

  • Main house/internet router (ASUS RT-AC88U), set up with IP: 192.168.1.1/24 , running DNS/DHCP/Internet etc.
  • Most devices in house connected to that router (IP Schema (DHCP range) : 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.220 / Subnet 255.255.255.0)

1GB uplink between asus-router to MikroTik Rouer (Interface: ether / 1GBit)

  • Internet/DHCP all works fine as is

Now, I’d like to connect my 10GBit NICs in my vmware vsphere environment (esxi) and openmediavault (omv) be connected via VLAN on ports sfp-sfpplus1 through sfp-sfpplu4. That’s all. I want all “public” communication to go through the main router (Asus), and inter-storage communication happen only over the 10GBit network.

I tried all sorts of things, like assigning VLAN IDs (can’t communicate anymore to omv) as well as just setting up a new subnet as 192.168.10.1/24.. none of this ever seems to work. I’d need some simple setup instructions on what to set up on the Mikrotik Router settings for ports/interfaces/bridge/vlan/ip addresses to support this.
I had it all working for a little bit, but saw that the traffic out of my vmware system was routed through the 1GBit devices, and through the “ether/1G/management” port on MikroTik, and then out to the omv storage NAS via the 10GB sfp-sfpplus2 interface.. which is obviously not what it’s supposed to be. I’d like to isolate it to have full 10GBit inter-connect between esxi/omv for storage traffic.

I tried to find a way to export my config as plain text to attach to this post, but couldn’t find that option :frowning: please let me know where it is (using WinBox).

Thanks so much for any help anybody can provide.
Cheers
Max

2

Maybe you should consider finding a local consultant to configure the network for you?

3

The explanation is a confusing mess at least for me.

  1. Provide a schematic that shows the equipment and networking envisaged.
  2. Provide a written set of requirements based on use cases, no mention of network design or network devices or config.
    Simply, I have X users that need this access/functionality, I have Y users that need…, The admin of this network needs to be able to…

List separately the devices you have and how they are connected physically…

4

In winbox, open terminal and execute

/export hide-sensitive

then post the output (enclose it into code environment, that’s icon on the top of the post editing window).

5

/export hide-sensitive file=yourconfig (any file name will do).

it will show up in files menu in winbox just need to download it.

6

Thanks for the advice, but the point really is for me to figure this out. It’f or my development system after all, so I should build out the infrastructure myself :wink:

7

Ok cool.
First, a diagram would help us better.
Have you started configuring yet? If yes, do we have any configuration ?

8

Yes, I’ll get the visio posted today.