by Maher Haddad | Jun 6, 2022 | Switching
On PoE you have the possibility of priority setting. Why do we need to use the priority? Well think that you don’t have enough power to all connected devices, then the switch will work on the priority and the port which has a higher priority will be carrying the power...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 6, 2022 | Switching
Power over Ethernet, which we normally refer to it as PoE, is to send power inside the copper wire. Why do we need to do that?Jjust to power on another device without the need of a power adapter. On MikroTik hardware, there are different PoE supported types which are:...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
In the last part of this chapter, you need to know how to secure the MikroTik Switch Access. There are different things you can do to harden your MikroTik Switch so you do not allow anyone to access the switch. For this you require to do many steps to harden the...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching, Uncategorized
Another nice feature on Layer 2 is 802.1X Port-Based Authentication, normally referred to dot1x. This option is available on RouterOS since version 6.45. It provides port-based network access control using EAP over LAN known as EAPOL. The Dot1x has three components:...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
Also, another feature on Layer2 Security is called Port Security. Let’s say that on Ether2 port we have a PC connected and we don’t want any other device connected to this port to work but my own PC. Then I can apply Port Security from which only the MAC address of my...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
In addition of the bridge level, you can see on the Switch Tab also a table for Hosts as you can see here: Those ports are showing here because they are hardware-offloaded. You can also make them static if you want by creating them manually the same way we did on the...
