I’m having a difficult time wrapping my head around the way Mikrotik is working compared to Cisco Catalyst and Procurves.
Basically we have our corporate network on VLAN 10 and the guest network on VLAN 1. How exactly do I configure a port to belong to VLAN 10 instead of VLAN 1 (default) while allowing access points to put guest clients on VLAN 1?
You add a new interface on the interfaces page (via the VLAN tab or by selecting VLAN when adding the interface).
This new interface has an arbritrary name, but I suggest something like ether1.vlan10 when it is vlan 10 on port ether1.
When creating the interface you select the parent interface (ether1) and the vlan tag (10).
Then, you can use this new interface (in addition to the bare ether1 that serves the untagged packets) in your routing
and filtering configurations.
So, for having VLAN 10 on all ports, you need to create several of those interfaces and you can put them in a bridge
when that is required.
It should also be possible to configure VLANs in the switch, but its documentation is quite unclear so I have stayed
away from that. Of course when you need high performance switching between ports using the same VLAN tag,
you may be forced to dive into that. But a VLAN interface as described above will be required anyway, in that case
only on the master port of the switch port group.
im still trying to get around mikrotik’s vlan tagging . i think you need to “trunk” your port torwards that device.
by doing the stuff above… ( thats like doing a sub interface in a cisco) you can use the switch-chip feature
to manage the ports themselves like you would in a regular switch . ( like the vlan-switch modules in cisco routers)
Aparently there is a default-vlan-id option to tag untagged packets on the “/interface ethernet switch port:…” but i dont see it in my version ( still working on it)
I will try to explain how to deal with vlans and qos on Mikrotik devices.In switching technology, we have three modes of ports: Access, Trunk and Hybrid.An access port should be used only with untagged packets. This kind of port is where you connect your PC to the switch.An trunk port is capable of receiving and forwarding packets from multiple vlans. This one is to interconnect switches.An Hybrid port is a special mode that allow untagged and tagged packets on the same port. Imagine that you have a Voip desktop phone, you will connect your PC to the phone and the phone to the switch. We will have a vlan for voip and untagged data for the PC.
I will try to explain how to deal with vlans and qos on Mikrotik devices.In switching technology, we have three modes of ports: Access, Trunk and Hybrid.An access port should be used only with untagged packets. This kind of port is where you connect your PC to the switch.An trunk port is capable of receiving and forwarding packets from multiple vlans. This one is to interconnect switches.An Hybrid port is a special mode that allow untagged and tagged packets on the same port. Imagine that you have a Voip desktop phone, you will connect your PC to the phone and the phone to the switch. We will have a vlan for voip and untagged data for the PC.