Virtual Ethernet in RB1200

RouterOS General
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Good afternoon!

I have a RB1200 and several RB433 as AP. In RB433 there is an option of inserting Virtual Ethernet Interface menu, however, the RB1200 this option is nonexistent.

Someone could tell me why?

I consulted the manual and there is very clear:

Requirements

This menu Becomes available:

architeecture on x86 you have to have installed kvm packge
mipsbe on architecture RouterBOARDS
RouterBOARDS on ppc architecture, except RB333, RB600 and variants.

I thought it was the lack of any package, but it is not. Then I thought it was the new version 5.7 and is not.

Thanks to those who take the time to resolve this question.



God save the google translator!

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The CPU in the RB1200 does not support Virtualization - therefore no Metarouter, and no Virtual Ethernet.
However, you can probably do what you need with a simple Bridge interface.
Create a new bridge, assign a admin-mac-address. Do not put any physical port on the bridge.
This makes the bridge interface behave like a “virtual” ethernet, or loopback interface.