Ok… before I beat my brains out trying to get this to work, perhaps my approach is wrong, or I don’t have the right tool for the job.
I’ve got a Debian linux box that I want to run an 802.1q trunk from (tagged) to a 750 on port one. I want to cable port 2 on the 750 to a standard switch and designate that as vlan1 with an address space of 10.5.1.0/24 and cable port 3 to another switch as vlan2 with an address space of 10.5.10.0/24. The DHCP server will be on the linux box (which is also the router).
I’m basically wanting to use the 750 as a VLAN aware switch, can it be done with this product or should I focus my efforts on purchasing a managed switch instead?
Ideally, I’d like to make it work with this so I don’t have to buy another piece of hardware…
The 750 is not a switch, so it does not treat VLANs the same way, and you loose some of the functionality of a switch. Namely when you add in a VLAN to the MikroTik it views it and treats it like another physical interface on the router.
Some of the functionality that you loose for example is you cannot really have a tagged and untagged port. The closet that you can get is bridge a VLAN with an other physical interface that does not have the VLAN attached to it.
So in your case if I’m understanding what you are looking to do. Assign your VLANs to ether1. Then Bridge VLAN1 with ether2 and VLAN2 with ether3. The addresses should be assigned to the Linux box on the appropriate VLAN interfaces there as well as the DHCP servers. Traffic coming in on on ether1 with a VLAN tag of 1 will leave ether2 without a tag and traffic coming in on ether2 will leave ether1 with a VLAN tag of 1, and the same thing on VLAN2 leaving and entering ether3.