Hi.
Bought my first Mikrotik router RB5009UG+S+ to up my game a bit 
Now I’m a bit confused because there is no way to do any traffic shaping on ingress of the WAN interface other than Bridge interface.
If I plan to use bridge interface for VLAN’s wouldn’t that shape all the inter-VLAN traffic?
Openwrt and VyOS has ifb device to redirect the traffic for “egress” traffic. How is this done on Mikrotik routers? I see “local” on some document pages but can’t find it anywhere, nor how to create it.
It is not possible to shape ingress traffic, that has to be done at the other end (your ISP) where it is egress traffic.
Of course there are some workaround like shaping with the newer types of queue like CAKE or FQ CODEL but you need to experiment.
Yes I am aware the TRUE ingress shaping is impossible on the recieveing end.
Like I said in the first post I can do “ingress shaping” on bridge interface, haven’t tried VLAN’s yet so asked around if someone has already done this with VLAN’s 
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Could there be option for chaining bridges or virtual eth’s before the bridge where all the ports are located?
QoS on Mikrotik has had the best performance so far for ingress shaping what I’ve tested.
When you want to shape “all the internet traffic towards internal networks” you can add a queue for parent “global” and make sure your packet marks are set only for incoming internet traffic (or else the same queue would be active for internal and outgoing traffic as well).
Ingress traffic from WAN is egress on LAN not sourced from LAN itself.
Continuation…
Can you give me an example how to mark incoming/outgoing packets from LAN/WAN? I can see connections getting marked (to some success), but not the packets that use marked connections to mark the packets (two mangle rules)
Sorry, this is probably some basic stuff but I can’t get my head around it… is Fast Track related?
E: Yep it was FastTrack related..
My “problem” is that the first thing I always do on a new router is to remove the fasttrack rules, so I am not always aware that that can be an issue and how to work around it…
But I gather you got it working?