Recommendation for vlan routing

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Hi Everyone,

I have a campus network with primarily L2 switches. We have some POS stations in some locations and I want to put them on a vlan for PCI compliance. The vlan is easy enough to setup but I would like these stations to get DHCP from our main server. What Microtik router would allow me to connect the vlans and route traffic…including requests for DHCP?

Thanks!

Ed

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Any soho router.

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any Mikrotik router can do this. the difference is capacity and throughput.

L2 switches? you will need VLAN aware switch to connect those POS

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Thanks!

I have about 18 POS stations around the campus and all the L2 switches are “smart” and will support vlans. We do move one of our campus stores on a seasonal basis where one building will have 4 during part of the year and 12 during the summer. I definitely want a router that can handle the traffic - as we don’t want the network to contribute to any delays processing sales. Currently the POS app does have a local database that often syncs with a hosted DB out in the cloud. We are moving to a new version of the app that is browser based…so no local DB syncs.

Here is a quick sample topography. Building 1 is the center of the “star” (with DHCP server and ISP router) and building 6 hangs off of building 5. All connectivity between buildings is fiber. Building 1 is the seasonal building where during the summer most of the POS stations reside. After setting up the vlan I figured the router would be best placed in building_1 connecting the vlans. With the router in place a POS station on vlan 40 would send its DHCP request…and get a reply from the DHCP server on Vlan10 in building one.

Building_1…building_2
|…buiding_3
|…building_4
|…building_5…building_6

I thought this was a better explanation than my original post (sorry - was in the usual IT hurry). One desire is that the routers ports are gigabit…as the entire network is as such.

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If it is just sales data, with cloud access to server etc., RB2011 or 3011 will happily do it for you.
Depending on whatelse this router has to do, the RB2011 should handle 50Mbps to 80Mbps. More than that, I would use 3011

if your other traffic is heavy and you need QoS, many firewall rules in place, consider a cloud core

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I just ordered the 3011. Thanks for the help!