Been a little busy the past week, but did notice Mikrotik RouterOS 6.41 released on 22nd Dec 2017.
It has some significant changes that I wanted to highlight from the changelog and quickly show the changes in the winbox interface.
!) bridge – implemented software based vlan-aware bridges;
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Bridge#Bridge_VLAN_Filtering!) switch – “master-port” conversion into a bridge with hardware offload “hw” option;
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Switch_Chip_Features#Bridge_Hardware_Offloading!) detnet – implemented “/interface detect-internet” feature;
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Detect_internet
The switch changes is the one that got my interest, as this is the one that I have known and used since I first started to use Mikrotik hardware. So now I have to get my head around the fact it has changed.
You can see from the images above that Master Port is no longer used and/or available under your interfaces to group interfaces together as switched ports. This is now done differently.
Upgraded one of my routers and I think I understand how this change impacts future configurations and setup process.
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