How to create sub interfaces?

RouterOS General
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I can’t find a way to create sub-interfaces on a MikroTik device. I.e. on a cisco device

Interface g0/1
no shut
Interface g0/1.10
ip address 10.0.10.1
Interface g0/1.20
ip address 10.0.20.1
Interface g0/1.30
ip address 10.0.30.1

Now I know that yes you can assign multiple IP addresses on a MikroTik however that’s not necessarily the only reason for wanting sub interfaces. Perhaps i.e. I want to monitor traffic only on the 10.0.10.1 ‘interface’ and not have traffic from .20.x and .30.x counted in the collection. Maybe I have 2 public IP’s and 2 internet connectiosn on ether1 (which is connected to 2 other router’s via a switch) and I want to monitor bandwidth on each internet connection separately (and I don’t own the upstream routers / have no access to them)

I believe the closest equivalent on a Mikrotik is to create multiple VLAN interfaces on the physical interface, however its mandatory to specify a VLAN number and I don’t necessarily want to use tagged VLAN’s

2

Nice and wonderful post also

3

Hi,

from my experience working with MikroTik they don’t offer this functionality on Ethernet but on the other hand you can create virtual WLAN interface for Wifi.
If this can help ..

Best Regards,

Daniel

4

There were requests for that already on this forum, but were not heard by the mikrotik yet.

5

You want to create a configuration with the native vlan. Do I understand correctly? That is, the traffic from the port has to go in a few vlan tagged and one untagged?
If so, then simply create multiple vlan on the port, and configure IP for them. And for the native vlan configure IP on a physical port.

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It is possible with VLAN tagging only. A VLAN interface works much like a subinterface. There is no subinterface without VLAN in RouterOS.