VLAN Trunking on RB1200

RouterOS General
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Just got my RB1200 and attempting to get it set up for VLAN trunking, but I’m having trouble translating my cisco configuration to MT. For example, I need this at one site:

Ether1 - VLAN 1200-1379 (backhaul connection)
Ether2 - VLAN 1200-1260 (local access point)
Ether3 - VLAN 1200-1260 (local access point)
Ether4 - VLAN 1261-1320 (remote site)
Ether5 - VLAN 1321-1379 (remote site)

At some sites, the VLAN IDs are not contiguous… for example:

switchport trunk allowed vlan 50,1400-1519,1580-1639

I could, in theory, skip the switch and do this with a bridge, but the bridge rules also lack the ability to specify a range or list of VLAN IDs, they only allow the specification of a single VLAN ID.

Any help?

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I’d really like to hear thoughts from others on this… now, I know that a vlan-per-customer is not a very good way to design a network, but it’s what I was given and what I have to work with.

Janis,

This does not work:

[admin@RB1200] /interface bridge> filter add mac-protocol=vlan vlan-id=1200-1379 in-interface=ether1
invalid value 1200-1379 for type, an integer required

I NEED to specify a range. We’re terminating hundreds of customer VLANs, and specifying individual rules is not acceptable.

Can you turn this into a feature request for ROS 5.6 to be able to specify a list/range of VLAN IDs in the switch and bridge configurations?

Thanks,

-Troy

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[admin@RB1200] /interface bridge> filter add mac-protocol=vlan vlan-id=1200 in-interface=ether1 action=accept chain=input
[admin@RB1200] /interface bridge> filter add mac-protocol=vlan vlan-id=1201 in-interface=ether1 action=accept chain=input
[admin@RB1200] /interface bridge> filter add mac-protocol=vlan vlan-id=1202 in-interface=ether1 action=accept chain=input
[admin@RB1200] /interface bridge> filter add mac-protocol=vlan vlan-id=1203 in-interface=ether1 action=accept chain=input
…
[admin@RB1200] /interface bridge> filter add mac-protocol=vlan vlan-id=1379 in-interface=ether1 action=accept chain=input

you cannot use the range vid