RB493 Switch Operation

RouterOS General
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I have an RB493 board and I want to use the on-board switch chip to provide simple Ethernet switch capability. I have not been able to get things working the way I expect and would appreciate any help. For reference, I have already looked at the wiki page (http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Switch_Chip_Features) that everyone posts as the answer to all problems switch related.

Here is what I am trying to do:

With the RB493 board at factory default settings, I create a bridge and add Ether1 and Wlan1 to it. I then remove the default IP Address (192.168.88.1) assigned to Ether1 and assign it to the new bridge.

I then assign IP Address (192.168.69.1) to Ether4.

I setup a switch using Ether6, Ether7, Ether8 and Ether9, and use Ether5 as the “Master Port”. I have NOT assigned any IP Address to Ether5. I am assuming that I do not need to assign any IP Addresses to Ether5 or any of the switch ports.

Finally, I connect my PC to Ether7 and then connect Ether6 to Ether4. Now when I try to login to the RB493 board via IP 192.168.69.1 (Ether4’s IP Address), WinBox will not let me in. If I connect the PC directly to Ether4, WinBox will log in to the RB493 board without any problem.

What is interesting is that, if I connect the PC back up to Ether 7 and then connect Ether9 to Ether1, I can log into the RB493 board on IP 192.168.88.1 (The Bridge IP) without any problem.

What am I doing wrong?

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What you are saying there is Ether4 is not part of the switch group interface, so of course you won’t be able to access the router when connected to the switch group since there is no IP address on that switch group. I believe the switch chip just makes all of the ports assigned to it appear to be one interface to the MikroTik, so you will still need an IP address assigned to the master port if you expect to access it over that interface or for any routing to go on between it and the rest of the internet.