hi guys i’m having problem with my vlan setup… for my rb750 & rb250gs
my network is as below…
my rb750 has default ip of 192.168.88.x
my interfaces & vlan as below..
my pppoe dailer is attached to vlan500 which is attached to the gateway port of the rb750
vlan600 is also attached to the gateway port of the rb750 which carries the iptv signal
the problem now is, i know i can use bridge and link my vlan 600(iptv) to an unslaved port of the rb750 but that will carry my iptv traffic only..
but now i want to trunk vlan600 and default vlan , to the rb250 that is located at my hall, with my tv and so that
the iptv receiver and my network media player.. can both work together
how do i do the config on the rb250 and is there any other additional configuration needed on my 750 so that i can make it work ?
I’m working on something very similar. Unfortunately did not get that far… If you get this to work please post your full config (if possible)…
Regarding the 250GS I was testing it yesterday directly against my ISP (no router in between). Firstly I would advise you to upgrade to the newest firmware (1.4), the first ones seem to be pretty buggy. While upgrading I noticed the reboot etc commands did not work, so I just uploaded the new firmware, left it for a few minutes and then cycled power.
There where two pages for vlan on the management interface. My recomendation would be to keep one port with no vlan configuration so you don’t need to reset the router if you mess up (if you enable vlans for all ports management might become difficult). On the second page with vlans you need to put append, then add a row for each vlan (one for 500, one for 600) and enable them for the ports that will contain the ip-tv box and the media player (just activate the needed one). On the previous page you have to set vlan to enabled, put the right ID and set it to strip the vlan headers.
Note, this example assumes that the RB750 sends the packages with the vlan headers in place, and that you get enough data for the ip-tv box to function through vlan 600. When I tested at home I wanted to see “what I get” through the ip-tv vlan so I ditched the router and pulled a full cable to the 250GS with the box attached. When the box was running I started to get a picture and it seemed to work ok. Then I restarted the box and it would not work. My assumption is that my ISP only sends multicast traffic and dhcp through the vlan, and the box actually needs other connections too. This would complicate things quite a bit more…
Regarding multicast traffic you might have to set up an IGMP proxy on the RB750 so that it forwards the multicast traffic to any further interfaces. I asked Mikrotik about how it should be configured and this was their response:
When configuring IGMP-proxy set up VLAN as upstream interface and set up correct
downstream interface, in this case you do not have to bridge anything. And my
suggestion would be to connect your multicast client to router instead of switch
as bridge (switch) has to send multicast packets on all bridge ports except of
ingress port, so devices connected to your RB250GS will receive multicast stream
if your client connects to multicast stream.
I’m still trying to digest it, and also to figure out if their idea is that I don’t actually send the vlans themselves to the devices…
