Getting Started: MikroTik Bridge Configuration

This video is aimed at teaching new users to MikroTik how to configure Bridges on RouterOS. In essence a bridge allows you to bundle different interfaces together into a single logical interface. Bridges have various different uses and can help expand your network in very interesting ways.

For more information on Bridges please visit the MikroTik TOC:

Feel free to use the timestamps to skip to any specific section you are interested in.

EVE-NG Setup:

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Bridge Theory
05:35 - Bridge Configuration through Winbox
08:40 - Bridge Configuration through CLI

Credits:

Intro Music: Ringtail - Waking Up

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[drreality]

I'm so grateful for your tutorial
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[schlomoshekelstein]

i was trying to do this for roughly 2 hours, i watched this video maybe 5 times. couldn't get it to work at all! finally said fuck it i'll just use eth3 and eth4 instead of eth1 and now it works. it wouldn't let me bridge eth1 for whatever reason but at least it's working so thanx!!!

[BostjanCadej]

Nice to see you building content from basic to more advanced 👍

[matthewfranck]

Awesome example! Noticed @ min 12 you switched third Mikrotik's subnets ;)

[kevingreen]

Can you bridge the wan interface so that two or more ports are on the wan side of the router communicating with each other on layer 2 and the rest of the ports remain on the lan side of the router?

I tried this recently but router os kept changing my programming changes to other settings and once I finally figured out how to force the changes to stick I lost inet connectivity and management from WAN side.

Any ideas where I may have went wrong?

WAN port 1 10.10.40.1/24
WAN port 2 10.10.40.2/24
LAN bridge 192.168.100.1/24

[ezylearningseries]

Hi! Would just like to ask, what apps do you use to make the netework diagram. Thanks,

[allenforquer]

Would this work to have two separate subnets on my network? Or possibly even have to WAN connections with one router?

[marconoyola]

What software are you using to draw out the network?

[pouyaazimi]

How can I force my MikroTik router to use vpn for internet access?

[Tenly]

I thought I was following along well, but you lost me at the end. When you created the bridge on the first 2 routers, you assigned an IP Address with a /29 mask but when you got to Router3, you used a /24 and didn’t explain why??? Did I miss something obvious?