Hello all,
after month of visiting the forum as a guest mainly for some specific IP work I now have a (in theory) much simpler problem which I haven't found a solution for (yet).
Goal: I'm trying to forward L2 Ethernet traffic from one ether-port to another in RouterOS 7.4. The traffic is raw L2 traffic and not IP traffic. I'm currently testing with a RB3011.
Background: The traffic is from a Linsn LED installation where LED display data is communicated via Ethernet packages and normal CAT6 cables from a "sender card" to a "receiver card". The connection between sender and receiver card normalle is 1:1 (direct) but I'm trying to switch the L2 traffic through RouterOS with the goal to (A) extend the cable run, (B) dynamically select target port/cable route and (C) select multiple target ports to send data from one sender card to multiple receiver cards at once.
When connecting the sender card to a RB3011 port, the incoming ethernet port shows a high activity with 30.000+ Rx Packet (p/s). I've already tried a switch rule, switch mirror source/target etc. but it looks like the RB3011 is too smart expecting IP traffic while it only receives raw L2 frames.
Does anybody have any ideas for configuring a simple forwarding of the receiving packets? Thanks very much in advance!
CD