Packet captures are great since they show you all the details. For example, why is some stuff coming over as VLAN 10 when it should be 20?!

I have some misconfigurations I need to sort out between my router, switch, and endpoints. That’ll be a project for this weekend though, not tonight.

#homelab #networking #vlans #mikrotik

The saga of "Aaron learns how to do VLANs on Mikrotik" continues. I somehow have VLAN tagging working through my bridge, though VLAN filtering is off. Based on my understanding of the docs, this shouldn't be working the way it is now.

I think I finally got everything figured out?!

Wireless clients are getting to the right VLAN, with the addition of a datapath, so that all seems right.

I can route to my other VLAN, and all the traffic seems to be going over the connection to the switch as tagged traffic, which is what I want.

Notably, the bridge does not have VLAN filtering on, though I saw a lot of guides say to do that. I always ran into the issue where enabling that means I lose all connectivity.

Someday I'll make a post on the Mikrotik forums about my config, but that's an issue for another day. I have other stuff I want to get building in there now.

#homelab #routing #mikrotik