RB3011 - want to use SFP as WAN1 and ETH1 as WAN2

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SO a total noob here, but i work for an ISP in the electrical engineering division, and run a private network out in the jungle, and have been given this RB3011 to try.

I have 2 ISP conections out here, and i used to use a TP Link gigabit VPN router which had a simple automatic bandwitdh dependant load balancing function which i want to ryr to mimic with this mikrotik.

IM realy struggling, because im not a network engineer.

So i have configured all my users to be bandwidth controlled using simple queues, that was a year long learning lesson, it never worked in the past till i realised i needed a parent queue for the entire LAN.

Now im preparing for the intense learning curve of a basic dual WAN setup, load balancing, and before i even get to the first step of that, I need to plug the incoming intenret of the main internet, into the SFP port. This is a conection which comes form the internet router through a wireless PtP Link to a media converter into fiber into another media converter into the eth1 port on the router. I want to remove the media converter and have the fibercome straihgt in to the SFP port. I cant even make that happen.

before you kjump to some conclusion that im some kind of idiot, this has all worked before movcing to mikrotik, I do understnad mikrotik is a netwrok engineers tool, but nothing compares to it in terms of speed so i need to learn.

I have done absolutely nothing to the default config.

I beleive i need to do soemthign about removeing the SFP port from the Bridge? What exactlly do i need to do make the sfp port and its transceiver work just like the default ETH1 port?

I Need someone to walk be thorugh step by step ike a grandfather learning how to use a TV remote.
mikrotik bridge and interface list.jpg

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OK so ive finaly been brave enugh to take the dive and i think i have the SFP port working on WAN now.

I had to

  1. change the interface list WAN entry to SFP1
  2. change the DHCP client WAN to SFP 1
  3. remove the SFP port form the Bridges/Ports tab.

Now i find mysefl unable to log back in to the router through winbox via my wifi access point polugged in to Ethernet 2, but the web GUI page works.

WHat have i done wrong? why am i locked out now?

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What exactlly do i need to do make the sfp port and its transceiver work just like the default ETH1 port?

You answered the question by yourself ! :wink:
Just remove the sfp1 port out of the bridge interface list and thats it.
That way eth1 and sfp1 are NOT anymore bridge memberports and become dedicated router ports !
Sometimes it could be that easy !! :wink:

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so i worked out that the reaso i couldnt get back in via winbox was because i was accesing it using the mac address… a mate of mine looked at it and said :why on earth are you using a mac address to log in" use the ip address.
I replied, THIS IS HOW ALL THESE MIKROTIK PPL LOG IN TO THIER ROUTERS..

So we cant understand that.

Anywya, now im tryign to do the same on a little mAP2nd, and it turns out it doenst wokr on this thing.
This little thing i bought for its POE out port, hopgin that i could use it to power a reverse POE switch in teh middle of the village that connects them to the internet.

Now mikrotik in their wisdom designed this thing to POE out on the LAN port, thinking that ppl would use thise tiny little thing to send internet to a POE device, rather than accept internet from a POE device. I put it to you , they got that backwards, 99.999% of ppl buy this thing as a home end device, meaning, it should accept internet and send power over the same port. Fools

SO i can not for the life of me, make this technique (as in 2nd post) work on this little mAP thing.

The quickset thing keeps changing to bridge mode and static ip acquisition, and i cant make it hand out DHCP over lan 1 and wlan at the same time, and i cant make it get internet via eth2, and it jsut all keeps jumping around all over the place and i cant see any pattern, just complete chaos and utter insanity and randomly jumping around on its own.. im kinda giving up on mikrotik coz its jsut too hard. i see lots of forum posts on ppl doing it and no one ever has an asnwer, jsut closed and blocked discussions, as if it might be impossible. that really pisses me off, becasue the fing instruction manual sais, and i quote:

Quick Start
Connect your Internet cable to Ether1, and your PC to Ether2. If using the mAP to power another router using the PoE output feature, connect the router to Ether2, and use the built-in wireless AP to configure the mAP.
Set computer/router IP configuration to automatic (DHCP).
Wireless AP mode is enabled by default, you can connect to the SSID “MikroTik”. Log into your router from your web browser by opening 192.168.88.1 in the address bar.

No most of that is a lie, eth2 doenst work as a router, and wifi is not on by defualt, i have to connect my lappy to eth2 to turn wifi on, and when i do that, it thinks im using it as a CPE, so it f""ing turns back to bridge mode, and stays that f**ng way.

Does anyone know how this works and can tell nme how to do it?