RB1100AH - start with port switching? or something else?

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Hello everyone,

I’m replacing our office’s Draytek 2820 (Dual ADSL) with a RB1100AH. We have a simple ‘flat’ network (same subnet, no VLANs etc), with a couple of external sites on different subnets VPN’d in, but we don’t need constant connectivity so it’s ok for me to tinker.

The draytek 2820 simply has 4 ethernet ports, which are all switched. I have these going to another unmanaged (but only 10/100) switch, which goes to all the clients, wifi, etc.

I want to initially replicate this setup on the 1100AH. Is a port switching group the right way to do this? To clarify, I basically want the ethernet ports to behave as a single switch, with the exception of the two WAN interface ports.
Would the best way to do this be to just designate ether4-13 as slaves to ether3? Is there a better way to be going about this, given what I want to initially achieve? If it is suggested that I purchase a gige switch, I may do that, if it will make life easier in the future.

Many thanks,

Jeremy

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I answered your other post. Please don’t double post.

http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/port-switching-group-on-rb1100ah-or-something-else/58214/1

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Thanks - The double post was unintentional. I was preoccupied while I typed/submitted my thread, and when I couldn’t see it in the forum, I thought I must have only previewed it and not posted. I didn’t realise they needed to be mod approved.

Mods - please close this thread.

Thanks