Help to deal with the problem of high load (up to 100%) of the processor on the CRS112-8G-4S.
There are up to 10 pppoe customers.
Even though the CRS112-8G-4S can be configured to be a router and firewall, it is not well suited for it. I think you’ll find the problem you have with the high load on the CPU is because the CPU in the CRS112-8G-4S is simply not powerful enough for queues and firewall rules. You would have better results if the routing, queues and firewalls were done by a dedicated router, and the switch was used only for switching.
From looking at your firewall rules it seems like you must already have a router somewhere that manages Internet access. You could try moving some of your configuration to that device and see if it helps.
I think your firewall rules can be improved upon, i.e. your very first 2 rules are incorrect and will never work as expected, they are the wrong way around.
Also try making use of fasttrack in firewall to reduce CPU usage
Or disable rule #7 to check if usage will drop? There are lots of packets “firing” this rule.
Do you have default deny rule in input chain? What is in your connection tracking table? Sources you added to address list, you can drop in RAW firewall.
in one case I found a script that was running continuously caused high cpu usage.
You Choose a frong device for this job,
How fast is your Upstream connection?
I already dasbled all the rules, but it did not give a positive result
Tell me which one?
15Mb/s
Sorry, but this device is not meant to handle any tunneling and the CPU load you are experiencing is normal.
The CRS112-8G-4S is a routing capable switch, where the routing function is mainly for management purposes.
The cheapest MT device that would handle some tunneling is the RB750Gr3 ie. HEX
I regularly see CRS112’s hitting 100% on the CPU just from an SNMP call. I even see my one at home doing 80% just from viewing it in Winbox. Others have pointed out optimisations for you but you should probably invest and replace the device with either an RB2011 or RB3011.
https://youtu.be/3LmQYIQ5RoA?t=843
Sometimes the situation is not going to happen to you?
OK, I know the thread is a bit older, nut I have the same problem.
Already took a RB2011 for routing and load balancing and let
the crs112 do the switching, but is´nt there a device that does
it all?
What about the CRS328-24P ? It is a bit bigger, but that shoud not
be a problem as long as it can do the routing without reaching
its limits.
I need a device that can do load balancing for two WANs and
switching for 6 connected devices (now Groove, might change).
AND: It has to provide power for the connected device. There are
not too many RBs with such many PoE-outs.
The CRS328 also has only one CPU, would that be enough ?
Thanks for your replies.
Wayne
Buy a ccr.