Manual:Metarouter

Overview

MetaRouter is a new feature in RouterOS 4.0 beta 1.

MetaRouter is used for the RB400 series boards to create virtual routers.

Commands

The /metarouter menu gives the following:

• add - allows you to create a new virtual router
• print - lets you list any virtual routers
• enable - to enable a virtual router
• disable - to disable a virtual router
• console - lets you access the console of a virtual router
• interface - lets you make network interface mappings

Example

 [admin@MikroTik] /metarouter> add
 [admin@MikroTik] /metarouter> print
 Flags: X - disabled 
 #   NAME                 MEMORY-SIZE DISK-SIZE     USED-DISK     STATE        
 0   mr0                  16MiB       0kiB          377kiB        running      
 [admin@MikroTik] /metarouter> console 0

(To get out of the console do ctrl-A and then q)

Interfaces

The interface command has the following options:

 [admin@MikroTik] /metarouter> interface add 
 comment    disabled        dynamic-mac-address  type            virtual-machine
 copy-from  dynamic-bridge  static-interface     vm-mac-address

To add an interface, and reboot the virtual router

 [admin@MikroTik] /metarouter> interface add  virtual-machine=mr0
 [admin@MikroTik] /metarouter> reboot 0

Once connected to its console using /metarouter console 0 you can see the new interface:

 [admin@mr0] > interface print 
 Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave 
 #     NAME                                              TYPE             MTU  
 0  R  ether1                                            ether            1500 

On the host physical router the interface appears as a virtual interface:

 [admin@MikroTik] > /interface print 
 Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave 
 #     NAME                                              TYPE             MTU  
 8  R  ether9                                            ether            1500 
 9  R  test                                              bridge           1500 
10 DR  vif1                                              vif              1500 

Creating a bridge between the virtual interface and a physical interface allows traffic to pass.