2 Bridges in Router RG850 Mikrotik

RouterOS General
1

Dear all,

I have an question would like to better understand.
I has created 2 bridges in Mikrotik RG850 to separate 2 SSID, one for no-login, another for hotspot (bridge-hotspot).
However, I found log which is detected that “Hardware Offloading with bridge-hotspot”.
So my question is how many bridge for Mikrotik RG850 ?

Thank you
Amnart

2

You can have 1 bridge with hardware offloading on RB850Gx2 and more than 4096 (the limit is a lot higher) software bridges.

3

You mean that the Mikrotik RB850Gx2 have only 1 bridge and if I create more than 1 bridge, it will cause “hardware offloading”, is it right?

Thank you
Amnart

4

It means that only 1 bridge is going to use the built-in switch chip, other bridges will be using the CPU to forward packets. You can control which bridge is going to use hardware offloading with “hw=yes” and “hw=no”.