Just bought a hEX POE -what now?

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I’m unfamiliar with programming Mikrotik. A couple of questions:

  1. Out of the box the router is programmed to bridge the last 4 ports together. How would I assign a different subnet to each port?
    Extra points: Let’s configure DHCP on each of those interfaces.

  2. DHCP-RELAY?

  3. I bought this box with the idea I could use it to provision other Mikrotik radios, etc before deploying them.

So, can I program one or more port to act as follows:

  • untagged traffic from port (e.g Mikrotik radio to be programmed) is in 192.168.88.X subnet and is NAT’d, so radio firmware can be easily upgraded?
  • port passes traffic on VLAN 1000 between port 1 (internet) and itself. ( We usually put the mgmt ip address on vlan 1000)

Thanks,

Joe

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  1. There’s bridge which acts as a switch between member ports. Got to ports subsection of bridge and remove interface(s) you want to have separate from bridge. After that assign configuration (IP address, DHCP server, whatnot) to now stand-alone interface.

  2. There are reports that it works :wink:

  3. It can be done.

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Can you help with #3? I don’t know where to begin with the config. If it was Cisco, i’d describe it as a trunked port with a native vlan.

Thanks,

Joe

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I’m not sure what exactly you’ve had in mind under #3. As you mentioned VLANs, you might want to go through this tutorial about how to do VLANs in Mikrotik world.

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I want to make a hybrid port with VLAN1000 for the tagged traffic.
I want untagged traffic ti be NAT’d to the outside (WAN) interface