Hi There, Based on what I have seen from some Googling, Mikrotik don’t currently have the software support to allow you to change EEE (802.3az) settings. Is this still the case? The latest of the sources I found was back in 2019.

Bumping this thread as this is not something that should be overlooked. This is a critical thing to be able to control, or at least know/document, particularly in latency-sensitive networking (like AVB for audio etc). The strange thing is that you guys support PTP (Precision Time Protocol), so at l…

An older thread says, by confirming with a Cisco device on the other end, that the RB5009 does have EEE enabled, but nothing in the Mikrotik documentation nor the CLI on any of my accessible devices shows anything related to that. That probably was me. RB5009 has EEE enabled on eth1-eth8. I can s…

An older thread says, by confirming with a Cisco device on the other end, that the RB5009 does have EEE enabled, but nothing in the Mikrotik documentation nor the CLI on any of my accessible devices shows anything related to that. That probably was me. RB5009 has EEE enabled on eth1-eth8. I can…

btw: I have a friend being an audio professional and according to him the most recommended switches for DANTE are CBS250-8 and it’s predecessor SG250-8. While affordable, the provide everything required for DANTE and have a reputation to be rock-stable, also for live events. This is based on what …

I have searched far and wide in Winbox but Mikrotik does not seem to be able to turn of EEE. Which seems bizar to me in such a customizable switch. But what can you do about it. I own the L009 and can confirm that is not within spec to use for Dante. The EEE settings keep messing with the clock sync…

You might want to file a feature request with Mikrotik at help.mikrotik.com . EEE should indeed be configurable IMO. Now I have used AVIO adapters with RB5009 without issue in past, so I’m not sure there isn’t some other issue going on than EEE. But it’s true that it’s a pretty firm recommendatio…

Hi Everyone! By default, EEE should be disabled on all ports. Can you please submit support ticket for the cases where you can see it active on RB5009 (or other devices) and share the supout files? We will check it out.

RB5009 has EEE enabled at least on ether2-8 since it was released and among all ROS versions released for it. Just checked again on a Cisco SG350 connected to ether2 of a RB5009: The SG350 clearly shows that EEE is enabled and active on RB5009. And as mentioned it was that way since RB5009 was relea…

Yeap, we managed to reproduce this. We will see what can be done about this in future ROS versions. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

This would be very much appreciated!

EEE on Mikrotik

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EEE has been disabled by default on this since 7.22.1. There is no setting to configure.