Continuing my VLAN experiments, I’ve realised switching will give me full wire speed and bridging won’t. Right now, I’ve got a 4-bay NAS connect and a 20-bay NAS connected to my network. One of both might end up on the MicroTik switch so wire speed will be a real plus when the 4-bay unit is being backed up to its big brother.
I’ve been trying some real basic stuff for the past 4 hours with no luck. I must be missing some very important setting.
I’ve set up ether 1 as the master port for ether 2 and ether 3. And as expected, the 3 ports behave like any switch would do (I’ve not checked whether it really behaves like a switch or whether it is in fact a hub).
# NAME MTU MAC-ADDRESS ARP MASTER-PORT SWITCH
0 R ether1 1500 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx enabled none switch1
1 S ether2 1500 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx enabled ether1 switch1
2 RS ether3 1500 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx enabled ether1 switch1
3 ether4 1500 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx enabled none switch1
4 ether5 1500 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx enabled none switch1
In the
/interface ethernet switch vlan>
menu I’ve put ether 2 and ether 3 in vlan 20.
ether 1 will be put in vlan 10.
# SWITCH VLAN-ID PORTS
0 switch1 20 ether2
ether3
1 switch1 10 ether1
1)Computer A is connected to ether 1. Computer B is connected to ether 2.
Expected: Computer A should not be able to ping computer B.
Result: A is able to ping B.
- Computer A is moved to ether 3. Computer B remains in ether 2
Expected: Computer A should be able to ping computer B
Result: A is able to ping B
A VLAN does not get any more basic than this. If I can’t get this to work, I’ll never be able to create a trunk to my Cisco switch.
I’ve messed about in the
/interface ethernet switch port>
to no avail. That and many other things that did not help at all.