How to my router like a switch

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I bought a Mikrotik RB532 and would like to have port 1 and 2 on the same network for actlike alike a switch. How can this be down??? Thanks for your help.

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Create bridge between ether1 & ether2

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I tried to implement a switch by bridging 2 ethernet ports on a Routerboard miniRouter 150.
Using “iperf” on two hosts I reached 48 Mbps bandwidth.
Changing the routerboard with a commercial 8 port switch I got 91 Mbps.
The worst is: implementing 2 bridges each composed of two ports with 4 hosts implementing 2 “iperf” tests, I got 1 transfer about 33 Mbps and another about 21 Mbps.
The routerboard CPU seemed to be able to transfer a maximum of 50 Mbps (indipendently of numeber of ports used.

I could understand this poor performances, from hardware point of view, a switch and a routerboard are totally different!!!

There is any configuration trick to emulate switch performances?

Best Regards

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Tomorrow I will test this:

http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/routerboard-as-switch-is-it-possible/18740/1