To me, with ipv6 being more and more needed, having to give priority to ipv4 for performance reason is not a good place to be in. And since CCRs without switchchip won’t be able to use h3 l3 offloading, I would like to see ipv6 fasttrack in RouterOS v7.
I have no problem with IPv6 performance (Fasttrack is always the first thing I disable) but I think IPv6 deserves way more attention from MikroTik, the “our customers never ask for it” no longer cuts it.
When that includes Fasttrack development for some people, I welcome it to be included (as long as it can be disabled).
IPv6 adoption has already reached 40-50% in many countries as per Google statistics. It shouldn’t be treated as second class citizen in RouterOS. People expect IPv6 to provide the same performance as IPv4, which is only possible with Fasttrack.
The amount of IPv6 work we have done as MikroTik consultants in the last year has been staggering. We rarely build a new network without designing for IPv6.
This is a critical feature, please give it priority.
I advise you to buy routers that can run your workload without fasttrack.
IMHO fasttrack is more targeted towards home routers where the user wants to get the high bitrate of their modern fiber or cable connection on an outdated router model.
In a WISP, when you would want to do any connection tracking at all, you should not need that extra performance tweak but rather get faster routers.
+1 for this
IPv6 Fasttrack is a must in 2021, as most of the MikroTik devices are not capable of gigabit routing when IPv6 is involved.
my hAP AC^2 is only capable of ~600mbit on IPv6. my RB4011 uses 22% of CPU when passing ~1gbit traffic
No fast-path on the edge, Yes fast-path on all your distribution routers where you don’t need to inspect most packets. An est/rel IPv6 fast-path for distribution routers is a real must have these days now that many of us are pushing >3Gbps between pops.