Why am I not seeing hardware offload on the
RB750Gr3. If I create one bridge and I put all interfaces in this bridge I don’t see HW. Does it not support HW Offload?
RouterOS 6.47.1
Disable STP on the bridge should enable hardware offload
@plisken: I am afraid that @CZFan is right. Your RB750Gr3 uses switch chip in MT7621 and that has almost no features supported with bridge offload. Not even STP/RSTP.
you can check it here: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Bridge#Bridge_Hardware_Offloading
@CZFan: thanks for pointing that out. I didn’t believe it on the first look but after checking all facts it seems to be reality. So glad that i always avoided these weird models. In addition, I was almost about to get some RB4011 but looking at this chart, no way. Now I regret that I recommended it as powerful device to several people who will sooner or later hit this issue (or better - they will notice of missing HW offload).
It is amazing I did not notice this earlier.
Personally, I find no issues with these devices as they are classified as SOHO devices and do the job they are designed for very well. With that said, people wanting to run all services possible on a single device plus 40 (exaggerated ) vlans in a SOHO environment I think is just silly.
If it has to be done, then add a switch to the mix, etc
@vecernik87, I am getting the feeling Mikrotik or the product let you down recently, your posts does not seem to be as positive anymore
Thanks for the many answers. I wanted to use rstp to get redundancy. But without the hardware offload I still prefer other Mikrotik routers. Since I want the data traffic to be handled via layer2.
@ Vecernik87 I have been using Mikrotik routers for years and have had these devices for years. But I only discovered it today.
Thanks again for your answers and stay safe during this Corona time.
regards