I watched a video on youtube where this guy hooked up his mikrotik 3 4 port 10 gig switch to his other computer. He transfers large files like I do, so this peaked my interest. He explained how it’s done, just name a folder on the windows computer (mapped) it as 1.1.1.2/255.255.255.252 which I did and called it Temp. On the linux box, I did the same thing, and that that one is 1.1.1.1 same broadcast. No gateway no dns. I figured, eh, this must be easy, NOT. I guess it shows one should do the research before buying a switch that’s more like a real industry type of switch than a plug n play type that does everything for you.
The only way that I can connect to routeros is by the winbox tool through the ether 1 port which is 1G. I have set up sfp2 and 3 for my direct links to both computers. As soon as I transfer a file, it shoots up to to about 112 and that’s it. However, if I press pause, then press continue that sucker goes all the way up to 5G for about 5 seconds and then it suddenly drops and sits around 95-99MB . What I want to know is how can I configure this or can it be configured without the ether 1 interrupting and slowing the transfer. I figured there could be a way I could offload the traffic onto 2 and 3 and ether 1 just be ignored but that does not seem to be the case. I mean, this is just a simple network, straight to one and the other. I tried to set up the vlan, and I’m guess that’s the way to go? Just some advice would be great. I didn’t think I would need to learn an entire router os just for a simple 10 gig transfer.. I’ve been tinkering endlessly and searching through forums, and would this be done in the os console rather than winbox? winbox is kind of glitchy and doesn’t allow me to do certain things and sometimes it does..
Thanks for any advice ..