by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
All that we have seen up to now has been based on the port-based VLAN, which is a very common one. But also, on the CRS3xx series, you can use MAC-Based VLAN. What is exactly the MAC Based VLAN? The concept is very easy; each network device has a MAC address on its...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
Another option that you see at the port level is Tag Stacking. This option can be enabled or disabled. If you enable it, then in case a frame comes to the ingress of the port with a VLAN ID different than the VLAN ID which is set on that port, then it will add...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
Another topic that I want to show you on VLAN is ingress filtering. This you can see in 2 places. The 1st place you see is inside the port which is inside the bridge as following: Also, you see the bridge interface itself on the VLAN tab as you can see in the picture...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
We are still having the same Lab scenario of the management VLAN. If we look at SW1 and SW2, we see on the VLAN under the bridge that a dynamic entry has been created having the interfaces bridge1 and Ether1 as untagged on VLAN 1. Why is that? Because when we have...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
Another important topic is the Management VLAN. You may have noticed that once you put a switch port on a VLAN then the PC connected to it will not be able to log into winbox of that switch. What if we have 80 MikroTik CRS3xx switches in our network, how will I be...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 5, 2022 | Switching
Q-in-Q, which is also referred to as 802.1ad, is to send a VLAN tag inside another VLAN tag. But why we do need to do that? Well, there are many reasons for that. The 1st reason is that in case we need to use more than 4096 VLAN in our network, then this is not...
