VLAN Config Confusion, Interface or Switch

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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First off, need to say i’m new to MikroTik products, in short I picked up a PowerBox and a 450G. I’ve been getting some configs going on them and thought I had an understanding on how the VLANs worked in RouterOS. I’ve been setting up bridges tied to the VLANs and ports. In attending to configure a VLAN on the PowerBox I can’t for the life of me to get it to work. In reviewing the documentation I noticed VLANs in the switch section. Long and short i’m now confused, do I setup the VLANs under the Switch section or the Interface section? As an example, I have a device on Eth3 on the Powerbox. I need untagged, VLAN 1 and VLAN 2. I would like to connect those to a bridge so I can change the those VLANs going upstream. As an example, VLAN1 on Eth3 connects to bridge1, eth1 has VLAN 200 which is connected to bridge1. So basically VLAN1 in from eth3 and out eth1 as VLAN 200.

-Chris

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VLAN on ROS can be done:

  1. By software using vlan interfaces: see Mikrotik Wiki)
  2. By hardware, by using the switch chip features; this varies depending on the RB having a switch chip, and on the switch chip model features. See Switch Chip Features
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That is what I was gathering. Looks like the main use case of one over the other is throughput bandwidth. The reason the question came up is i’m having issues with a VLAN on eth3 on a PowerBox. Basically the device on eth3 has untagged, VLAN1 and VLAN2. I have no issues talking to the device via the untagged but no love with the VLAN1.

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Are you using VID=1 for VLAN1?. Post an export…