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SwOS is an operating system designed specifically for administration of MikroTik switch products.


==Summary==
SwOS is configurable from your web browser. It gives you all the basic functionality for a managed switch, plus more: allows to manage port-to-port forwarding, broadcast storm control, apply MAC filter, configure VLANs, mirror traffic, apply bandwidth limitation and even adjust some MAC and IP header fields.  
<p>
SwOS is an operating system designed specifically for administration of MikroTik  Switch products. 
</p>
<p>
SwOS is configurable from your web browser. It gives you all the basic functionality for a managed switch, plus more: Allows to manage port-to-port forwarding, broadcast storm control, apply MAC filter, configure VLANs, mirror traffic, apply bandwidth limitation and even adjust some MAC and IP header fields.
</p>


==Connecting to the Switch==


<p>Open your web browser and enter IP address of your Switch (192.168.88.1 by default) and login screen will appear.</p>
== MikroTik Switch Manuals ==
 
* [[SwOS/RB250_RB260    | RB250/RB260 series Manual]]
[[File:swos_login.png]]
* [[SwOS/CSS106          | CSS106 (new RB260) series Manual]]
 
* [[SwOS/CSS326          | CSS326-24G-2S+/CRS326-24G-2S+ Manual ]]
<p>SwOS default <i>IP address:</i> <b>192.168.88.1</b>, <i>user name:</i> <b>admin</b> and there is no password.
* [[SwOS/CRS317          | CRS317-1G-16S+ Manual]]
</p>
== List of Examples ==
 
* [[SwOS/Router-On-A-Stick                | RB250/RB260 with Router-On-A-Stick ]]
{{ Note | MikroTik neighbor discovery protocol tools can be used to discover IP address of Mikrotik Switch. [[Manual:IP/Neighbor_discovery]] }}
* [[SwOS/SWOS-802.1Q-TrunkTwoSwitches     | RB250/RB260 Two Switches with VLAN Trunk ]]
 
* [[SWOS/CSS326-VLAN-Example              | CSS326-24G-2S+/CRS326-24G-2S+ Port Based VLAN ]]
==Interface Overview==
 
<p>
SwOS interface menu consists of 10 tabs:  Link, Forwarding, Statistics, VLAN, VLANs, Static Hosts, Hosts, SNMP, ACL and System.
</p>
 
<p>
Description of buttons in SwOS configuration tool:
* <b>Append</b> - add new item to the end of the list
* <b>Apply All</b> - applies current configuration changes
* <b>Cut</b> - removes item from the list
* <b>Clear</b> - resets properties of the item
* <b>Discard Changes</b> - removes unsaved configuration
* <b>Insert</b> - add new item to the list (places it before current item)
* <b>Sort</b> - sort VLAN table by VLAN-IDs; sort host table by MAC addresses
<br/>
* <b>Change Password</b> - changes password of the switch
* <b>Logout</b> - logout from current Switch
* <b>Reboot</b> - reboot the switch
* <b>Reset Configuration</b> - reset configuration back to factory defaults
* <b>Choose File</b> - browse for upgrade file
* <b>Upgrade</b> - upgrade firmware of the Switch
</p>
 
==System Tab==
 
[[File:swos_system.png|345px|thumb]]
 
<p>System Tab performs the following functions:
* General information about Switch
* Switch management
* Configuration reset
* Firmware upgrade</p>
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>IP Address</b></td><td>IP address of the Switch</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Identity</b></td><td>Name of the Switch (for MikroTik neighbor discovery protocol)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Allow From</b></td><td>IP address from which the service is accessible. Default value is '0.0.0.0/0' - any address.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Watchdog</b></td><td>Enable or disable system watchdog. It will reset CPU of the switch in case of fault condition</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>MAC Address</b></td><td>MAC address of the Switch (Read-only)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Version</b></td><td>Firmware version of the Switch</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Uptime</b></td><td>Current Switch uptime</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
 
{{ Note | SwOS uses a simple algorithm to ensure TCP/IP communication - it just replies to the same IP and MAC address packet came from. This way there is no need for Default Gateway on the device itself.}}
 
==Link Tab==
<div>
<div style="float: left">
<p>Link Tab allows you to:
* Configure Ethernet ports
* Monitor status of Ethernet ports</p>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
[[File:swos_link.png|345px|]]
</div>
</div>
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Enabled</b></td><td>Enable or disable port</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Link Status</b></td><td>Current link status (Read-only)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Auto Negotiation</b></td><td>Enable or disable auto negotiation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Speed</b></td><td>Specify speed setting of the port (requires auto negotiation to be disabled to specify)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Full Duplex</b></td><td>Specify duplex mode of the port (requires auto negotiation to be disabled to specify)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Crossover</b></td><td>Detect crossover cable (Read-only)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Flow control </b></td><td>Enable or disable flow control</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
==Forwarding Tab==
<div>
<div style="float: left;width: 385px">
<p>Forwarding Tab provides advanced forwarding options among switch ports, port locking, port mirroring, bandwidth limit and broadcast storm control features. </p>
</div>
<div style="float: right">
[[File:swos_forwarding.png|345px|]]
</div>
</div>
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Forwarding</b></td><td>Forwarding table - allows or restricts traffic flow between specific ports</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Port Lock</b></td><td>
* <code><b>Port Lock</b></code> - Enable or disable MAC address learning on this port
* <code><b>Lock On First</b></code> - Enable or disable MAC address learning on this port (MAC address from the first recieved packet will still be learnt)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Port Mirroring</b></td><td>
* <code><b>Mirror Ingress</b></code> - Whether traffic entering this port must be copied and forwarded to mirroring target port
* <code><b>Mirror Outgress</b></code> - Whether traffic leaving this port must be copied and forwarded to mirroring target port
* <code><b>Mirror To</b></code> - Mirroring target port</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Bandwidth Limit</b></td><td>
* <code><b>Ingres Rate</b></code> -  Limit traffic entering this port (bps)
* <code><b>Outgres Rate</b></code> - Limit traffic leaving this port (bps)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Broadcast Storm Control</b></td><td>
* <code><b>Storm Rate</b></code> - Limit the number of broadcast packets sent by an interface
 
* <code><b>Include Unicast</b></code> - Include unicast packets without an entry in host table in <code>Storm Rate</code> limitation</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
==Statistics Tab==
<div>
<div style="float: left;width:385px">
<p>Provides detailed information about received and transmitted packets.</p>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
[[File:swos_statistics.png|345px|]]
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
 
==VLAN Tab==
<div>
<div style="float: left;width:385px;">
<p>VLAN configuration for Switch ports.</p>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
[[File:swos_vlan.png|345px|]]
</div>
</div>
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>VLAN Mode</b></td><td>
VLAN mode for certain port:
* <code><b>disabled</b></code> - Ignore VLAN table,  treat packet with VLAN tags just as if they did not contain a VLAN tag
* <code><b>optional</b></code> - Handle packets with VLAN tag that is not present in VLAN table just like packets without VLAN tag
* <code><b>enabled</b></code> - Drop packets with VLAN tag that is not present in VLAN table. Packets without VLAN tag are treat as tagged packets with <code>Default VLAN ID</code>
* <code><b>strict</b></code> - Same as <code>enable</code>, but also checks VLAN support for inbound interface (drop packets with VLAN tag and ingress port that are not present in VLAN table)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
     <td><b>Default VLAN ID</b></td><td>VLAN ID for untagged packets when <code>VLAN Mode</code> "<code>enabled</code>" or "<code>strict</code>" is used</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Force VLAN ID</b></td><td>Whether to apply <code>Default VLAN ID</code> to incoming packets with VLAN tag</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>VLAN Header</b></td><td>
* <code><b>leave as is</b></code> - if VLAN header is present it remains unchanged
* <code><b>always strip</b></code> - if VLAN header is present it is removed from the packet
* <code><b>add if missing</b></code> - if VLAN header is not present it is added to the packet (VLAN ID will be <code>Default VLAN ID</code> of ingress port)
</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
==VLANs Tab==
<div>
<div style="float: left;width:385px;">
<p>VLAN tables specifies certain forwarding rules for packets that have specific 802.1q tag. Basically the table contains entries that map specific vlan tag ids to a group of one or more ports. Packets with vlan tags leave switch through one or more ports that are set in corresponding table entry</p>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
[[File:swos_vlans.png|345px|]]
</div>
</div>
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>VLAN ID</b></td><td>VLAN ID of the packet</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Ports</b></td><td>Ports the packet should be mapped to</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
==Hosts Tab==
<div>
<div style="float: left;width:380px;">
<p>This table represents dynamically learnt MAC address to port mapping entries. When Switch receives a packet from certain port, it adds the packets source MAC address X and port it received the packet from to host table, so when a packet comes in with destination MAC address X it knows to which port it should forward the packet. If the destination MAC address is not present in host table then it forwards the packet to all ports in the group. Dynamic entries take about 5 minutes to time out.</p>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
[[File:swos_hosts.png|345px|]]
</div>
</div>
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>MAC</b></td><td>MAC address (Read-only)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Ports</b></td><td>Ports the packet should be forwarded to (Read-only)</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
==Static Hosts Tab==
<div>
<div style="float: left;width:385px">
<p>Static host table entries. Static entries will take over dynamic if dynamic entry with same mac-address already exists. Also by adding a static entry you get access to some more functionality.</p>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
[[File:swos_static_hosts.png|345px|]]
</div>
</div>
 
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>MAC</b></td><td>MAC address</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Ports</b></td><td>Ports the packet should be forwarded to</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Drop</b></td><td>Packet can be cloned and sent to mirror-target port</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Mirror</b></td><td>Packet with certain MAC address coming from certain ports can be dropped</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
==ACL Tab==
<div>
<div style="float: left;width:385px">
<p>An access control list (ACL) rule table is very powerful tool allowing wire speed packet filtering, forwarding and vlan tagging based on L2,L3 protocol header field matchers.  SwOS allow you to implement limited number of access control list rules (32 simple rules (either L2 or L3 matchers are used) or 16 complex rules (both L2 and L3 matchers are used)).
</p>
 
<p>Each rule contains a matching part and an action part.</p>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
[[File:swos_acl.png|345px|]]
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 
<h3>Matching part parameters</h3>
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>From</b></td><td>Match port that packet came in from</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>MAC Src</b></td><td>Match by source MAC address and mask</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>MAC Dst</b></td><td>Match by destination MAC address and mask</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Ethertype</b></td><td>Match by protocol encapsulated in the payload of an Ethernet Frame</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>VLAN</b></td><td>
Match by VLAN header presence:
* any
* present
* not present</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>VLAN ID</b></td><td>Match by VLAN tag ID</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Priority</b></td><td>Match by priority in VLAN tag</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>IP Src</b></td><td>Match by source IP address and mask</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>IP Dst</b></td><td>Match by destination IP address and mask</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Protocol</b></td><td>Match by IP protocol</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>DSCP</b></td><td>Match by IP DSCP field</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
<h3>Action part parameters</h3>
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Redirect To</b></td><td>Whether to force new destination ports (If <code>Redirect To</code> is enabled and no ports specified in <code>Redirect To Ports</code>, packet will be dropped )</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Redirect To Ports</b></td><td>Destination ports for </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Mirror</b></td><td>Clones matching packets and send them to mirror-target port</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Set VLAN ID</b></td><td>Changes the VLAN tag id, if VLAN tag is present</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Priority</b></td><td>Changes the vlan tag priority bits, if VLAN tag is present</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
==SNMP Tab==
 
<div>
<div style="float: left">
 
<p>SNMP Tab consists of settings to monitor the Switch remotely.</p>
 
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
[[File:swos_snmp.png|345px|]]
</div>
</div>
 
<table class="styled_table" >
<tr>
  <th width="25%">Property</th>
  <th >Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Enabled</b></td><td>Enable or disable SNMP service</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Community</b></td><td>SNMP community name</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Contact Info</b></td><td>Contact information for the NMS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><b>Location</b></td><td>Location information for the NMS</td>
</tr>
</table>

Revision as of 12:38, 29 May 2018

SwOS is an operating system designed specifically for administration of MikroTik switch products.

SwOS is configurable from your web browser. It gives you all the basic functionality for a managed switch, plus more: allows to manage port-to-port forwarding, broadcast storm control, apply MAC filter, configure VLANs, mirror traffic, apply bandwidth limitation and even adjust some MAC and IP header fields.


MikroTik Switch Manuals

List of Examples