I have a couple in the field. Would be freakin awesome if they could get
some kind of spanning-tree in hardware switching mode.
I've tried fast-path bridging on a couple and it's almost like real
hardware switching, but if you're doing any kind of bridge filtering,
it's craptastic. 'use ip firewall' kills fast-path also.
Then.. the LCD on the CRS. Turn it off. It literally sits there and eats
up 10% CPU with it on.
On 5/2/2016 12:02 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote:
I think it uses fastpath on bridges in CRS, but I'm not 100 percent on that.
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
Sent: Monday, May 2, 2016 10:29 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik CRS - prevent loop
Is there any hardware acceleration at all if you use bridges? My needs are
actually pretty simple with this switch, but I do need it to move a few hundred
megs.
If bridging turns out to not be fast enough, and RSTP isn't available as a
switch, then do I have any fallback option? Port isloation? VLAN's?
I feel like a simple job just became a hard one.
On 5/2/2016 12:07 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I see it in the Bridge menu but not the Switch menu. I'm guessing you
don't want to do your switching in software, especially since some of
the CRS models have underpowered CPUs on the assumption most of the
traffic will be switched in the switch chips.
I wonder if the switch chips don't support STP, or Mikrotik just
hasn't written the firmware to enable it.
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 10:34 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik CRS - prevent loop
Does the CRS really not do RSTP? I can't find it in Winbox, and I read
some forum posts suggesting that it isn't there.
What other methods do I have available to prevent an accidental loop?
