RB750 as a switch

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Anyone tried running RB750 as a switch ?

I’ve added ether4 to a LAN bridge with DHCP server running on it. But I didn’t managed to obtain IP address on notebook connected directly to ether4. Did I missed something ?

[admin@home] /interface bridge> print detail 
Flags: X - disabled, R - running 
 1  R name="br60" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1520 arp=enabled mac-address=00:0C:42:56:26:62 protocol-mode=rstp priority=0x8000 
      auto-mac=yes admin-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 max-message-age=20s forward-delay=15s transmit-hold-count=6 ageing-time=5m 

[admin@home] /interface bridge> port print detail 
Flags: X - disabled, I - inactive, D - dynamic 
 1    interface=vlan60 bridge=br60 priority=0x80 path-cost=10 edge=auto point-to-point=auto external-fdb=auto horizon=none 

 2 I  interface=ether4 bridge=br60 priority=0x80 path-cost=10 edge=auto point-to-point=auto external-fdb=auto horizon=none

It works fine when I’m connected through vlan60.

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It looks like the LAN bridge is in VLAN60.

Why not just slave port 4 to a master port? When I use the RB750 as a managed switch, I remove the default config and just slave 4 of the ports to a master. It works fine and passes DHCP.

This is found on the interface menu of Winbox.

Tom

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Only physical interface can be set as a master port. VLAN is logical interface running on top of physical interface.