Video 0003 - Mikrotik VLANS and how to connect 3 of them on a home or SMB network

A video on VLANs and the intricacies that are related to Mikrotik routers and vlans.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Mikrotik VLANS and how to connect 3 of them on a home or SMB network
00:40 What are VLANs essentially what they are not
1:10 Discovered Mikrotik
3:23 GNS to the rescue!
4:30 Creating VLAN interfaces on Mikrotik in Winbox
5:30 Adding IPs to the above VLANS
7:58 Connection flow through vlans / devices - and testing DHCP on the virtual pcs
9:50 Pinging between 2 computers on the same vlan but on 2 different switches
10:05 Ping failure between 2 computers on 2 different vlans but same switch and the fix
11:25 Ping between 2 computers on 2 different vlans and 2 different switches
11:53 Bridge VLAN and access port together
15:25 Mikrotik VLANS tagged and untagged together on the same bridge.
15:56 Creating the bridge
17:22 Setting the PVID for the untagged port and adding the port to be included in the vlan
18:57 OOPS I made a mistake and needed to move the vlans to the bridge interface!
22:50 Final overview discussion about the vlans and setup
23:25 Firewall vlans / subnets from each other - block and 1 way access
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[@adrianmego1]

Thank you a million times over! I have been working with MikroTik for about 5 years and could never find the perfect example of VLANs (or never need to) until I found this video. Perfectly explained and got it working first time!

[@survivingnetworkingandit2084]

Glad it was able to help. :)

[@maurijn8568]

Thank you! This is the first video that uses a good topology and follows step by step so that I can also understand what every setting does.

[@survivingnetworkingandit2084]

I'm glad it helped. Feel free to pass it on or join the discord to hangout.

[@saylematthews6214]

Thank you for this! First video on VLANs on Mikrotik that actually explained it well and not making massive assumptions on knowledge of Mikrotik's way of doing things.

[@survivingnetworkingandit2084]

groovy :) Glad I could help.

[@ayodejiazeez660]

Detailed and well understood.thanks

[@farshaddashti]

Thanks a lot you got yourself a new subscriber, best so far in explaining VLANs in RouterOS

[@timnunes]

Thank you so much for this video. I wanted to get VLANs going on a bridge, as that seems to be what MikroTik recommends for performance reasons, even on a router (with a switch chip). @15:25 sums it up nicely, even though it sounds like you're not a fan of VLANs on bridges. I agree it's pretty convoluted to have to add the bridge as Tagged, but I suppose if you think of it from a router point of view, the router sees the bridge as a switch, so there needs to be something tagged coming from it.

[@ayadwalid680]

Thank you,
Please upload more labs about MikroTik Vlans

[@survivingnetworkingandit2084]

Sure. Anything specific you’d like to see?

[@ayadwalid680]

@@survivingnetworkingandit2084 Thank you,
Lab like 6 Routers or switch to by pass vlans to pc1 and got IP address from Dhcp server of vlan 10 for example that from R1., and R2 have vlan 20 with dhcp server and pass for example 4 Routers to dest. pc2 to got ip address from vlan 20.
I mean more way about vlans.
So lab2 like using vxlan.

[@survivingnetworkingandit2084]

@@ayadwalid680 yea, vxlans will be done... just in a few months.
In regards to routers passing dhcp requests... you're probably looking for DHCP relay. I'll put that on my roadmap.

[@ayadwalid680]

@@survivingnetworkingandit2084 ok sir.
I will wait you for upcoming videos.
Regards

[@bowsh007]

What is the discord domain to join?

[@DDenDong16]

Each time I go to create a DHCP server for my VLAN, i get the "invalid" flag.

[@seantellsit1431]

Did you add an IP address to your vlan first?
There’s a few things you need to
Interface > vlan interface
Ip address on that vlan interface
Then run the dhcp wizard against that vlan interface.

[@survivingnetworkingandit2084]

I've only seen that when the VLAN does not have an IP address. DHCP Server needs to be on an interface with an IP address, this includes vlans. Now this can change based on if the DHCP server lives elsewhere (like on a Windows DHCP server). Review the video and see if you might have missed a step. Otherwise, reach out to me in the discord and I'll check your config.

[@bowsh007]

What is the discord domain to join?

[@survivingnetworkingandit2084]

Hi. The discord link is at the bottom of the description of the video. Come on in!