by Maher Haddad | Jun 6, 2022 | Switching
In this LAB, I have SW1 and SW2 are connected to each other on the Ether21 and Ether22 interfaces. I want to do bonding between the 2 interfaces. Those switches have the following OS installed on them: SW1: SwOS SW2: RouterOS Configuring bonding on RouterOS we already...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 6, 2022 | Switching
Still on the same LAB scenario. My mission is to make Ether1 to be a management port. I don’t want any other ports on the switch to be able to communicate with Ether1, so that means I need to isolate it from all other ports on the switch. Let’s do that. I have...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 6, 2022 | Switching
Now that we have access to the SwOS, let’s see the settings that you can do. We are still on the same LAB scenario. You can see, we can do a lot of configuration using SwOS such as Port Isolation, Bonding, Spanning-Tree, VLAN, ect…. 1st let’s see the System tab: As...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 6, 2022 | Switching
MikroTik has another Operating System that you have used on MikroTik CRS3xx series Switches. This OS is called SwitchOS (SwOS). It is totally different than RouterOS and you can access it via web user interface only. That means that each CRS3xx series can have both...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 6, 2022 | Switching
When you want to diagnose Layer 2 problems, you require to use some tools that MikroTik RouterOS offers to us. In this course, we have passed through most of the tools, so you can consider this chapter just like a refresher of what we have seen previously as tools....
by Maher Haddad | Jun 6, 2022 | Switching
The last thing to speak in this chapter is how you can monitor the PoE which is provided to the other device. The easiest way to do that is to write the following command: In my case my Ether5 is not powering any device yet, so you see it is saying waiting-for-load....
