MikroTik switches and routers are very flexible to configure, as everything is done through [Wayback/Archive] RouterOS settings.
This means that given enough ports, you can split a physical switch into logical switches. This can be very convenient when you run multiple networks without VLAN.
Earlier this week, I already wrote about Torching a specific port on a MikroTik switch or router running RouterOS which involved turning off hardware acceleration off for specific ports in order to have the flow through the underlying switch chip prohibiting torch and filter features.
For splitting noticing which ports are connected to which switch chip is also important: splitting works best if you can configure each logical switch to exclusively use network ports on one switch chip.
This post was to both research how to configure this, and if my MikroTik devices would allow for hardware acelleration.
Here are some links that should help me with configuring (via [Wayback/Archive] mikrotik split switch in two – Google Search):
- [Wayback/Archive] Dividing one routerboard making it two separate wan routers – MikroTik – a thread explaining it is possible, but no examples how
- [Wayback/Archive] Splitting internal network – MikroTik – a thread explaining having dual LAN and a single WAN
- [Wayback/Archive] 1wan + 2 lan isolated from each other – MikroTik – is similar to the above thread
- [Wayback/Archive] Two Seperate LAN Networks Behind One RB750 ? – MikroTik – seems to explain what I want, including RouterOS example scripts
- [Wayback/Archive] hEX and creating two (switch or port) groups – MikroTik seems to push towards VLANs, I need to check that out as I might not need it.
–jeroen
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