SwOS can only do switching while ROS can do switching, bridging and routing. Routing is obviously a completely different thing, but difference berween bridging and switching is moot. If one considers only wired ethernet ports, then in Mikrotik world the difference boils down to single thing: bridgi...

SwitchOS is quite limited and doesn't have any encrypted management access, for example. I would be tempted to use RouterOS with a hardware-assisted VLAN-aware bridge from the outset to minimise any disruptions if you needed to change in future. See https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Basic_VLAN_...

If you're going to keep the traffic at Layer 2, then you'll be able to achieve 10Gbps between hosts that are connected to the switches. In RouterOS v7, L3 at wirespeed is possible since routing is offloaded into hardware. https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/CRS3xx+series+switches#heading-L3H...

Hello everyone, I was hoping to ask a question about the test results and how they actually are for real world application. I currently have a netgate router out a stick running pfsense, connected to CRS328-24P-4S+RM and then off that is CRS326-24G-2S+RM. I only have one device that is capable of 10...

Yup I understand it's different but haven't tried that yet which seems like it'll work. I'll try it out and see what happens.

Do you suggest setting a static IP since it's not getting a DHCP address

Hi everyone, I am trying out SwOS on my CRS328 and whenever I change from RouterOS to SwOS and reboot, I can never get access again to the switch but everything passes through fine. The CRS328 even gives my CRS326 an IP address and allows it to connect to the internet. Even all the devices I randoml...

Hey everyone, new to Mikrotik, made a post a few days ago but ran into some more issues and was hoping for further help. Currently I am running pfSense as my router, with four VLANs out of the LAN port. I have the LAN connected to a CRS305-1g-4s+ on ether1, then I am going to have a CRS326-24G-2S+ a...

If port is already a member of the bridge, e.g. by using the default configuration after reset, you can't add it again and the Wiki examples are usually fragments to apply where there is no existing configuration. You can change the settings of existing through the command line or using Winbox to a...

VLAN handling is confusing compared with, for example, HP where you just specify if a VLAN is tagged or untagged and it sorts everything out for you. With Mikrotiks in the /interface bridge port section the pvid= parameter only specifies which VLAN ID any untagged ingress traffic is assigned to. Th...

The VLAN interfaces should not be added under bridge ports. See https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Bridge section 11 for configuration of VLAN-aware bridges, for your setup sections 11.1, 11.2 and 11.4 are likely to be most relevant. In general post the output of /export hide-sensitive...

Hello everyone, I am new to MikroTik and was hoping to get some help with trunking and maybe some VLANs. I use a netgate sg3100 pfsense router for handling all the vlans and routing and such and I have a few mikrotik switches that I had gotten to replace my 48 port arista. As for the switches I have...