Will the switch chip in the RB 493AH transparently pass VLAN data between ports?
for example I have set the master port for ether3 to ether2, connected a VLAN trunk port from a cisco switch to ether2 and a Motorola Canopy device on a VLAN to ether3. Data does not seem to pass. Are there any other settings I’m missing to allow this to happen?
However if I make both ports part of a bridge instead the vlan traffic does seem to pass.
Thanks
Were you able to go any further with this?
How did you enable the switch chip?
I can not find the jumper layout for the RB493AH to do such a thing.
-Sincerely,
DesertAdmin
I think the RB493 uses the IP178C or IP178D switch chip depending on the age of the board. That is an 8 port version of the IP175C or D 5 port switch found in RB433 and RB450 products.
Feature support on the switch chips can be found here: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Switch_Chip_Features
The wiki says no vlan support for the switch chip.
desertadmin: you don’t use jumpers to enable it. That would be “old school”. Use Winbox, on the Interface menus look for the Master Port: drop down menu. Default is none. You enable hardware switching by slaving ports to a Master Port. That puts them in a switch group.
Tom
Yeah I am sorry some times I think old skool on things.. Sooo.. this seems to only be available on a 493AH with ROS ver 4.x and greater correct?
-Sincerely,
DesertAdmin
No. It works on ROS 3.x also.
Tom
Hmm I think I went to an Ethernet (like ethernet1) not to the dir of ethernet I think that is where I messed up. Only problem is that I guess no VLAN tagging will work while using the switch chip? Or does this just mean you can not make a VLAN tag on the whole switch? Which is fine I just need the VLAN tags on the interfaces.
Any advice would be great on this.
-Sincerely,
DesertAdmin
never tried it, but i assume its a non-managed switch type… so try changing MTU to 1504 and see if that helps allow passage of the vlans as is. just a thought.