
Explore why vlans are needed to segment a flat network, reduce broadcast domains, improve security, and prevent single points of failure by grouping ports into virtual networks.
Learn how to configure vlans on MikroTik CRS switches, compare with router OS behavior, and follow a hands-on lab using the CRS S-109 to create vlans.
Configure VLANs on CSS switches with SwitchOS, creating VLAN 50 for management and VLANs 10 and 20 for user access, setting trunk and access ports, and testing connectivity.
Explore how to run VLAN ten and VLAN twenty over an IP tunnel between headquarter and branch offices using MikroTik routers, including trunk configuration, DHCP server, and DHCP client tests.
Learn how q-in-q encapsulates a vlan inside another vlan to extend vlan reach. See a MikroTik lab applying bridging and hardware offload to carry vlan 22 under vlan 20.
Demonstrates MAC-based VLAN on MikroTik CRS3xx (RouterOS v7). Assigns a PC to VLAN 20 via MAC, with a trunk to router1 and DHCP in VLAN 20.
Learn VLAN tag stacking with a lab that passes VLANs under a parent VLAN, enabling VLANs 100 and 200 to traverse VLAN ten, with DHCP and HTTP server verification.
Configuring VLAN's on MikroTik products can be a challenge. There are different ways to create VLAN's and the configuration differs from a MikroTik product to another.
For this reason, I have created this course to show you all possible ways of creating VLAN's on MikroTik products. This will include configure VLAN's on RouterBoards using the RouterOS, on CRS switches using RouterOS, as well as on MikroTik CSS switches using SwOS.
Finding information on the internet of creating VLAN's on MikroTik products is very limited, so this course can be used as a reference in case you want to create VLAN's in your production network.
Additionally, I have added a new section about the new VXLAN feature that is available on RouterOS v7. In this section, I will explain in details what VXLAN is then I will do a LAB to show how to implement VXLAN corrector on MikroTik RouterOS v7.
To be able to practice all LABS of this course, you require to have physical hardwares as following:
Internet service
2 x RB such as RB941 or RB951
1 x CSS switch such as RB260
1 x CRS switch such as CRS109
2 x CRS3xx series switches such as CRS326
5 x UTP cables
1 x PC
I hope you will enjoy this course and I will see you inside.