> With RouterOS based switching chips you gain some additional power, but you > lose per-interface information and control when you enable the switching and > you still have to use bridging to do anything beyond whatever ports happen to > be on the switch chip. Therefore, to use any of the RouterOS features, it is > bridged and only applies to the switch group as a whole. > > Some of this lies with the poor choice in chipsets, while some lies in the > poor implementation.
It's a trade off. The switching chips were designed for home gateways, and that's why they cost X (both volume and price issues), Mikrotik did a good job of getting that functionality available to do wire-rate filtering with sub-$100 devices. What was a good decision for RB4xx/7xx/8xx series might not be the case for RB1xxx series, which have more ports and usage requirements. Rubens _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
