The MikroTik Certified Switching Engineer (MTCSWE) is a three-day intermediate-level training course that teaches RouterOS Layer 2 forwarding techniques, hardware switch chip and bridge features. It’s designed for network engineers and technicians who want to deploy and support Layer 2 based networks.

What’s covered:

Introduction

• Layer 2 forwarding concepts

• Unicast, multicast and broadcast traffic

• MAC learning in bridges and switches

• Interface settings

• RouterOS bridge overview

• RouterBOARD switch chip overview

• RouterBOARDs with basic switch chips

• Cloud Router Switch (CRS) series devices with

• advanced switch chips

• SwitchOS (SwOS) brief overview

MTU

• MTU

• RouterOS bridge overview

• L2MTU

• Jumbo frames

• Potential MTU issues

VLAN

• 802.1Q and 802.1ad VLAN overview and tagging concepts

• RouterOS VLAN interfaces

• Port based VLAN (VLAN bridging)

• Inter-VLAN routing (‘router on a stick’)

• VLANs in basic switch chips

• Port based VLAN

• VLANs in bridge interfaces

• Port based VLAN

• MAC based VLAN

• Protocol based VLAN

• QinQ (802.1ad)

• QinQ implementation with bridge VLAN filtering

• QinQ implementation with VLAN interfaces

Spanning Tree Protocol

• Spanning tree protocol (STP) concepts

• STP bridge priority

• STP port path cost

• STP and RSTP comparison

• Multiple Spanning tree (MSTP) concepts

• MSTP definition

• MSTP regions

• CST/CIST

• Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU)

• Spanning tree security

Link Aggregation

• RouterOS bonding

• Bonding modes

• Compatibility with other static link aggregation

Port Isolation

• RouterOS bridge horizon

• Switch port isolation

QoS

Layer 2 QoS (802.1p)

• RouterOS bridge filter priority

• CRS priority configuration

• Traffic shaping

• Bandwidth limiting in bridge with queues

• Bandwidth limiting in switch chip

Layer 2 Security

• IGMP snooping

• DHCP snooping

• Loop protect

• Traffic storm control

• Layer 2 firewall

• RouterOS bridge filter features

• Switch access control list

• BPDU guard

• ARP modes

• Port security

• 802.1X

• Switch security

PoE

• RouterOS PoE modes and compatibility

• RouterOS PoE priority settings

• RouterOS PoE monitoring

Tools

• Layer2 diagnostic tools

• Port mirroring

SwOS

• Introduction to SwOS

• RouterBOARD dual-boot compatibility

• Installing SwOS

• Managing SwOS

• Configuration of Layer 2 Features with SwOS

• VLANS

• (R)STP

• Port trunking

• QoS

• Layer 2 security

By the end of this training, participants should be able to configure and control Layer 2 forwarding using MikroTik networking solutions.