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Connect Netgear M4300 Switch with Mikrotik Switch CRS328-24p-4s+rm
Hello all, I need your guidance for a situation that i am facing. We have a Mikrotik switch on which we grand access to the internet. So far so good, the problem is that we bought a new netgear m430...
So, you have a Mikrotik switch with some VLANs already set up there and everything works fine, right? Now you connect a NETGEAR switch with its factory default settings to one of the ports of the Mikrotik switch. I assume that port is just an access (untagged) port to one of the VLANs there. A switch with its factory default settings behaves like an unmanaged switch, therefore your whole NETGEAR switch becomes part of the VLAN the Mikrotik port belongs to. If you set up VLANs on the NETGEAR switch, you need to redefine the connection between the switches. You need to set up a trunk (tagged) link between the switches. The 'router on a stick' topology employs that concept.
In short, if you want that vlan200 access Internet, you need to make the two ports of the link between the switches tagged members of vlan200.
Hi again,
Still trying to fix it for this reason I haven't answer anything. quick question, should I configure as a DHCP server for vlan200 (on the netgear) the Netgear?
Now as I have mention DHCP for the other vlans is the Mikrtotik. The Netgear is brand new with no vlans yet.
What else should I do on the Mikrtotik?
Thanx again
As far as I know, there is no DHCP server on the M4300 28G POE+. That Mikrotik switch can provide IP addresses to devices connected to the vlan200 ports of the NETGEAR switch. Of course, the DHCP server needs to be activated for the vlan200 on the Mikrotik switch. If I'm right that there is no DHCP server on that NETGEAR switch, you will face a DHCP dilemma when you try to get rid of the Mikrotik switch.
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