I am looking for a real explanation on why this behavior happened.
Have several 450’s deployed. Have just been creating a bridge and bridging the ports together. Mainoy due to familiarity, and no “switch” open in winbox. This setup has worked fine up until today. Installed a new 450 plugged into a 2011 because we needed more ports at a small grain leg. 450 would not pass traffic to the 2011. Would show up in IP neighbors, but could not even mac-telnet to it.
After troubleshooting, we added all the 450 ports to the switch chip.
/interface ethernet switch set switch1 switch-all-ports=yes
/interface ethernet
set [ find default-name=ether2 ] master-port=ether1
set [ find default-name=ether3 ] master-port=ether1
set [ find default-name=ether4 ] master-port=ether1
set [ find default-name=ether5 ] master-port=ether1
I understand the switch chip is better, and it’s switching and not bridging. I just am looking for an explanation to why this happened all of a sudden. We have several cookie-cutter sites where this is not an issue. As a result, it’s hard for the client to see why it has been working all this time and all of sudden going to the switch chip solved this issue.