Setting up a new MikroTik CRS309 turned out to be a bit more complicated than anticipated.

This post outlines my process of setting up the switch. The screenshots show the newer gui as I’m reconstructing this process after setting everything up.

Login to Admin Gui

The MikroTik manual states you need to use a windows program called winbox but I found out, the switch has a web gui running on port 80, so thats what I used. The switch boots up with an ip of 192.168.88.1 and a netmask of 255.255.255.0 so you need to set some ip in the same subnet to access the web gui.