by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
The 1st type of VLAN that we have available on MikroTik Switches is Port-Based VLAN. As its name mentions, the VLAN tag is added to the frame coming to the port of the switch using what we can “pvid”. This is exactly what we have seen up to now, when the frame comes...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
Virtual Local Area Network, or what we normally call it VLAN, is the main topic of the MikroTik MTCSWE course. VLAN is widely used in our networks, and this can be seen not only when using MikroTik Switches but also when using any other vendor switches like Cisco,...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
In this LAB, I am going to increase the Layer3 and Layer2 MTU and check the output. Below is our scenario: As you can see, I have 2 routers connected to each other on their Ether1 interfaces. I am going to increase the MTU on L3 and L2, then see the result. Let’s...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
Now we understand the MTU, let’s see the possibility of increasing the L2 MTU which differs from one MikroTik Router (or Switch) to another. Here below you can see an illustration demonstrating this: You can see clearly that each model can have a bigger or smaller L2...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | MikroTik v6, Switching
The Maximum Transmission Unit, or what we normally name it MTU, is the size of the frame of layer 2 and the size of the packet of layer 3 which needs to be sent from one device to another. By default, MikroTik makes the layer 2 MTU 1592 to allow you to send VLAN or...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 4, 2022 | Switching
As explained, each Switch Chip has different features that you can use for configuring the Switch. Some of the features are; Port switching Port mirroring VLAN Bonding Quality of Service Port Isolation Access control list Host table VLAN table For this reason, when...
