I say “attempted” because it’s still a bit of a mess, but the bridging system is at least a SMALL measure of improvement over the old master-port config. It helped that the current RouterOS versions have attempted to clean up the switching config. Not to mentioned my interest in networking concepts has evolved and I wanted to use some non-router-y layer 3 features, like DHCP Relay. My RouterOS knowledge had grown exponentially through my machinations on the CCR, and it constantly bugged me that RouterOS on the CRS had defeated me. Until Mikrotik released SwOS version 2.6, around mid-November, the switch was as good as a brick, at least to me.įast forward some months and once again I was looking to get RouterOS running on my CRS317. Trying to figure RouterOS switching (especially in the pre-6.41 RouterOS versions) was probably one of the first IT related things in a long time that I would honestly say “defeated” me.The available firmware (2.5) at the time broke DHCP on any VLANs the switch could see.The default SwOS firmware (2.3p) on the switch resulted in a SwOS bootloop.RouterOS, which gives you full layer 3 capabilites, but potentially sacrifices line-rate speeds if you try and use any routing features, or SwOS, which turns the switch into an almost too-dumb managed switch that only supports LAGs, VLANs, RSTP, and not much else. With a CRS (Cloud Router Switch), there are two options. Switching on the other hand is a disaster, and for almost a month when I first had the CRS317, I was unable to even use the switch. I have even started replacing some of my VPSs with CHRs, just because it works so well. But there’s a certain logic to the config, especially if you’ve ever done any CLI work on something like a Cisco.Ī recent photo of the CCR (cabling disaster included):įor routing, I’ll say I absolutely adore Mikrotik and RouterOS. As mentioned, Mikrotik likes to do things a little differently. I wasn’t worried about any layer 3 capabilities on the switch (at the time), so it didn’t bother me at all that while the CRS317 was capable of being a full layer 3 switch, it couldn’t do it at anywhere near line-rate. Around that time, I also started using a CCR (Cloud Core Router) for my main edge device. This is Mikrotik’s 16 port SFP+ switch with a single gigabit port, ostenibly for management. A few days ago, thanks to a one or two sentence post on Reddit, I finally figured it out.īack in October 2017, I picked up a CRS317-1G-16S+RM. Well, not constantly, but it’s something that I keep finding reasons to try and hash out. Since October of 2017, I’ve been fighting with RouterOS and switching. That tiny company from Latvia does things a bit… different. I think anybody that’s ever used a Mikrotik and RouterOS can probably agree.
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