RB3011 VLAN help - do I need a bridge?

RouterOS General
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Hi,
I have trunk port on ether2 with several VLANs, address, DHPC, etc… this all works will connected to a manged switch.

I would like to make ether9 on the RB3011 part of an existing VLAN (172). Can I do this in the switch settings or do I need to create a bridge?

Thanks in advance.

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These routers have two independent switch chips, for port 1-5 and for port 6-10.
On port 1-5 you can make another port part of a VLAN that you have on another.
However, when you want port 9 to be in a VLAN that is on port 2, you need to create
a bridge and make port 9 and the vlan on port 2 member of it.
(also remove the master-port setting on port 9 so it becomes an independent port)

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thanks for the reply - but do I do it /switch settings?

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So I want Ether5 to be a member of a VLAN currently on Ether2 - and pull from that DHCP, DNS, etc…

5

Yes in that case you can do it with the switch:

/interface ethernet switch port
set 5 default-vlan-id=172 vlan-header=always-strip vlan-mode=secure

This will make port 5 an untagged member of vlan 172.

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Thanks so much - I will give this a shot!