There is another scenario where you can use port isolation. The scenario is called Private VLAN. Even though the name includes VLAN, but we are not going to use VLANs at all. The idea is very easy. Let me show it to you with the help of an illustration.
As you can see, if you have many servers and you don’t want them to communicate with each other, you can do port isolations and allow their connected switch port to communicate only with the port connected to the Router so they can be connected to the internet.
So you isolate as following:
- Ether1 and Ether4
- Ether1 and Ether3
- Ether1 and Ether2
For this scenario, I will show you how this can be configured using the command line:
1st you need to put all interface in a bridge with Hw-Offload enabled:
/interface bridge
add name=bridge1
/interface bridge port
add interface=ether1 bridge=bridge1 hw=yes
add interface=ether2 bridge=bridge1 hw=yes
add interface=ether3 bridge=bridge1 hw=yes
add interface=ether4 bridge=bridge1 hw=yes
Then you need to isolate the ports so they can only communicate with Ether1:
/interface ethernet switch port-isolation
set ether2 forwarding-override=ether1
set ether3 forwarding-override=ether1
set ether4 forwarding-override=ether1
As you can see, we didn’t use any VLAN here, so Private VLAN is just a name but VLAN’s aren’t used.
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