Good day to all, newbie here (please be indulgent).
I can assign MACVLAN to interfaces, assign to VLANs to interfaces, to VLANs to LACPs, but I can not assign MACVLAN to LACP directly.
I’m missing something or “it should be possible” but it need a fix by Mikrotik devs ?
LOL. I had the same question WRT MACVLAN & VRRP - since you cannot add VRRP to MACVLAN either. Generally, “ethernet-like” things are treated same everywhere. So I did file issue at help.mikrotik.com for VRRP+MACVLAN – since I wasn’t sure if it was a winbox/CLI issue, or just not supported myself. Mikrotik did get back with a:
We will consider improving the MACVLAN capabilities with other features within RouterOS, but I am not able to give you any release dates.
and sometimes volume of requests changes the when…so I’d recommending filing a ticket about MACVLAN and LACP links, feel feel free to reference my issue, SUP-152174 (“VRRP cannot listen on MACVLAN interface”).
The MACVLAN has been useful — and I was not sure of the need on RouterOS initially. But if faced with needing to multihome IPs on a interface… creating a MACVLAN simplifies the needed firewall config.
With VRRP, it largely doesn’t matter since using the MACVLAN “parent” does not change how VRRP works. But with LACP link, you don’t have the same option, since the “parent” interface a member of the bond.
thanks