RB5009UPr+S+IN PoE-out on half ports only

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hi Gurus

Apols if this has been answered but I couldn’t find it anywhere here or on a quick google search.

I am interested in using RB5009UPr+S+IN as my main router for my home setup

Apart from the WAN which comes through a Nokia ONT, I will need 4 eth ports for desktops, printers and 3 eth for the antennas.

My only question is, can I activate PoE Out only on 3 ports and deactivate on the rest?
Previous experience with MK products is you can either activate all or non.

Can someone please confirm?

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I am not sure to understand the problem, PoE can be switched :
poe-on=auto-on | forced-on | off
on a per-interface basis:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/PoE-Out#PoEOut-PortSettings

Port Settings

PoE-Out can be configured under the menu. Each port can be controlled independently.

3

is this per port or a generic on/off for all port?

can i have OFF, port 1,2,3,4,5

and ON port 6,7,8?

the “per-interface” suggests you could do it as word suggest per port but I am looking for someone to confirm that this is the case before I buy the router

4

Which part of that quote is not clear ?

Can be controlled per port independently.

5

Yes. (there is always some confusion between interface and port, as they can be synonym or mean different things, as a matter of fact the single ports (or standalone interfaces) are changed under a /interface sub-menu.

/interface ethernet poe 
set ether1 poe-out=off
set ether2 poe-out=off
set ether3 poe-out=off
set ether4 poe-out=off
set ether5 poe-out=off

the default is auto-on, so you don’t really need:

/interface ethernet poe 
set ether6 poe-out=auto-on
set ether7 poe-out=auto-on
set ether8 poe-out=auto-on

BUT if you need to force power on, you do need:

/interface ethernet poe 
set ether6 poe-out=forced-on
set ether7 poe-out=forced-on
set ether8 poe-out=forced-on
6

Thank you.
All clear

7

Thank you so much