Switch chips misunderstanding

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hello, everyone. Can anybody help me? So, I have a RouterBoard rb2011uias with two switch chips (1-5 and 6-10 ports).
I clear a default configuration and I set a property “master-port” to “none” for all of these ports.
Then, I have decided to configure 1st port as a WAN port, and 10th as a LAN port.
These ports are on the different switch chips.
I have made all neccessary things (like NAT, queue tree and etc. that fine works on a computer with RouterOS and two network cards).
But it doesn’t work. So, my question. Is it neccessary that WAN and LAN ports will be on the same switch chip?
I want to use only two ports of RouterBoard, other ports have to be disable.

P.S. Sorry for my English.

2

Why not reset to default configuration and disable the rest (2-9) of the ports? It will work as you described…

3

Yeah, I did it. But it doesn’t still work. It is because I’ve asked - maybe these port have to be on the same switch chip for work.

4

Why to use Eth10 ? It is 100Mbit. Use 1Gb Eth2 and leave rest of 1Gb switch ports (Eth3 - Eth 5) enabled for future use and disable all 100Mb ports.

5

I guess, I will do so. I just want to know, does it matter to using same switch chips or not.

6

They do not have to be on the same switch chip, something else is wrong with your setup.

7

Agreed, using it the way you described should work without a problem, there is another setting you are missing.

8

“It isn’t working” is pretty broad - in what way is it not working? :wink:

I’ve had trouble with the gigabit switch ports having issues connecting to other devices sometimes. For instance, my router at home wouldn’t form a link with my old cablemodem on ether1 - ether5. I had to use ether6 as the wan interface.

If you’re getting a link, can the router itself ping to the Internet? (e.g. ping 8.8.8.8 from /tool)

If not, check your WAN interface to make sure dhcp client / pppoe client are working (or that you have the correct IP address configured if static and correct default GW configured in /ip routes)

Can your LAN hosts ping the Mikrotik’s LAN IP address? Can they log into the Mikrotik with Winbox / Webfig / etc?

Are your firewall rules properly configured?