Home & Lab Network Refresh MikroTik Style Part 2 - Routing

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is a continuation of a previous post expanding my revised home networking setup to include Routing.

Overview Diagram

With the L2 configuration completed setting up routing is pretty straightforward.

Objectives

DHCP Services: DHCP is configured for every VLAN.
Dynamic Routing (BGP) for High Available Lab: I use Cilium and BGP for my Turing Pi Cluster, therefore I will configure BGP peering between these devices.
Encrypted Upstream DNS and Adblocking: All router-resolved DNS queries are encrypted using DNS over HTTPS pointing to Cloudflare in combination with RouterOS’s adblock feature.
Network Segmentation:: Some VLAN’s will be Isolated, only allowing outbound connectivity.

DHCP Services

Add the respective sub interfaces, one for each VLAN. Each of these VLAN’s are already tagged to the bridge interface, which is a requirement.

Home & Lab Network Refresh MikroTik Style Part 1 - Switching

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Having built an extension and lined the walls with as much Cat6a as I could get my hands on, together with anticipating future needs for kids devices I’ve decided to revisit my networking setup.

Existing Setup