i was trying to do this for roughly 2 hours, i watched this video maybe 5 times. couldn't get it to work at all! finally said fuck it i'll just use eth3 and eth4 instead of eth1 and now it works. it wouldn't let me bridge eth1 for whatever reason but at least it's working so thanx!!!
Haha whoops! Good catch as well which is definitely something you do not want to do xD Luckily for me the /29's both fell into that /24 subnet so all hosts could still communicate.
I thought I was following along well, but you lost me at the end. When you created the bridge on the first 2 routers, you assigned an IP Address with a /29 mask but when you got to Router3, you used a /24 and didn’t explain why??? Did I miss something obvious?
You didn't miss anything Tenly, that was a continuity error on my part, router3 was also supposed to be a /29 mask, however out of habit I made it a /24. The reason this still worked fine is because the /29 the other devices are in are still within the same broadcast domain of the /24 of router3. If anything you can just scratch the /24 and replace it as a /29, apologies for confusing you at the end.
@@TheNetworkBerg That clears things up quite a bit…. Thanks for the explanation! One other quick question if you don’t mind…. At the beginning of the video, you say that “each port on a router is by default it’s own broadcast domain” - but I’ve just picked up an RB5009 with RouterOS 7.1 and there is a Switch section which contains 1 item named Switch1 and it appears to have all 9 ports assigned to it…? Do you have a video that contains an explanation of what this is and why I should or should not be worried about it? I was hoping to created 3 separate subnets on this device with Eth1-3 bridged as the 1st, eth5-6 as the second and eth7-8 as the 3rd - but I don’t see any way to remove them from Switch1! Will that be a problem for what I’m trying to do?
Can you bridge the wan interface so that two or more ports are on the wan side of the router communicating with each other on layer 2 and the rest of the ports remain on the lan side of the router? I tried this recently but router os kept changing my programming changes to other settings and once I finally figured out how to force the changes to stick I lost inet connectivity and management from WAN side. Any ideas where I may have went wrong? WAN port 1 10.10.40.1/24 WAN port 2 10.10.40.2/24 LAN bridge 192.168.100.1/24
You can bridge your two WAN ports, though I need to understand what your requirement is with this. Are you trying to build redundancy in case an interface/link goes down? STP will likely put one of the ports in a non forwarding state anyways. For this to work you would also need both interfaces to connect to either a switch or another device with both interfaces also bridged to yours. Also make sure that you put your IP address on the actual Bridge interface and not on the Port itself. So you wouldn't really need to assign two different IP addresses if you are trying to just bridge the WAN interfaces. You could create a diagram on draw.io for me so that I can better understand what you are trying to achieve and how your WAN is connecting to your Mikrotik.
Sure, I make use of a free tool on draw.io You access this directly from the web and it saves your diagrams to many repos like Googledrive,Git or even on your local machine Very handy and is just as useful if not more than visio.
i was trying to do this for roughly 2 hours, i watched this video maybe 5 times. couldn't get it to work at all! finally said fuck it i'll just use eth3 and eth4 instead of eth1 and now it works. it wouldn't let me bridge eth1 for whatever reason but at least it's working so thanx!!!
Tip of the ice-BERG 😍
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Awesome example! Noticed @ min 12 you switched third Mikrotik's subnets ;)
Haha whoops! Good catch as well which is definitely something you do not want to do xD Luckily for me the /29's both fell into that /24 subnet so all hosts could still communicate.
I'm so grateful for your tutorial
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Would this work to have two separate subnets on my network? Or possibly even have to WAN connections with one router?
This worked perfectly for having 2 separate subnets on my network. Thank you for the great videos.
add video about VLAN Filtering
I thought I was following along well, but you lost me at the end. When you created the bridge on the first 2 routers, you assigned an IP Address with a /29 mask but when you got to Router3, you used a /24 and didn’t explain why??? Did I miss something obvious?
You didn't miss anything Tenly, that was a continuity error on my part, router3 was also supposed to be a /29 mask, however out of habit I made it a /24. The reason this still worked fine is because the /29 the other devices are in are still within the same broadcast domain of the /24 of router3. If anything you can just scratch the /24 and replace it as a /29, apologies for confusing you at the end.
@@TheNetworkBerg That clears things up quite a bit…. Thanks for the explanation!
One other quick question if you don’t mind…. At the beginning of the video, you say that “each port on a router is by default it’s own broadcast domain” - but I’ve just picked up an RB5009 with RouterOS 7.1 and there is a Switch section which contains 1 item named Switch1 and it appears to have all 9 ports assigned to it…? Do you have a video that contains an explanation of what this is and why I should or should not be worried about it? I was hoping to created 3 separate subnets on this device with Eth1-3 bridged as the 1st, eth5-6 as the second and eth7-8 as the 3rd - but I don’t see any way to remove them from Switch1! Will that be a problem for what I’m trying to do?
Can you bridge the wan interface so that two or more ports are on the wan side of the router communicating with each other on layer 2 and the rest of the ports remain on the lan side of the router?
I tried this recently but router os kept changing my programming changes to other settings and once I finally figured out how to force the changes to stick I lost inet connectivity and management from WAN side.
Any ideas where I may have went wrong?
WAN port 1 10.10.40.1/24
WAN port 2 10.10.40.2/24
LAN bridge 192.168.100.1/24
You can bridge your two WAN ports, though I need to understand what your requirement is with this. Are you trying to build redundancy in case an interface/link goes down? STP will likely put one of the ports in a non forwarding state anyways. For this to work you would also need both interfaces to connect to either a switch or another device with both interfaces also bridged to yours. Also make sure that you put your IP address on the actual Bridge interface and not on the Port itself. So you wouldn't really need to assign two different IP addresses if you are trying to just bridge the WAN interfaces.
You could create a diagram on draw.io for me so that I can better understand what you are trying to achieve and how your WAN is connecting to your Mikrotik.
Hi! Would just like to ask, what apps do you use to make the netework diagram. Thanks,
Sure, I make use of a free tool on draw.io
You access this directly from the web and it saves your diagrams to many repos like Googledrive,Git or even on your local machine
Very handy and is just as useful if not more than visio.
Thank you so much 🥰 God bless you and your channel 💕
Fantastic content! Keep it up man
Thank you for the kind words, it really gives me motivation to create content like this.
Great content
What software are you using to draw out the network?
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Great explanation. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
great work.
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice to see you building content from basic to more advanced 👍
That's the plan!