High Pings to Ethernet

RouterOS General
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We just put a 532 board with an SR-2 card. We are seeing high pings from the ethernet side when traffic jumps. Let me explain the scenarios:

The AP has the SR2 and ethernet bridged. It is not doing routing, shaping, anything else. We have a MT router at the bottom of the tower that does this. We have about 20 clients associated to the AP. We can ping all the clients at 8-10ms on average. Some jump up, but that is normal radio stuff. Now, when traffic gets to be high pings from the bottom of the tower to the ethernet IP all are in the 300+ ms range. At the same time pings to the clients are just fine (8-10ms).

Pings to the clients are faster through the mikrotik than to the mikrotik itself.

Any ideas why? Speed appears fine.

Justin

2

about what bandwidth and CPU usage of router we are talking?

3

CPu usage is less than 10 percent. Bandwidth is around a meg going through.

Justin

4

i suggest you to check your cabling

5

If it were the cabling would the pings to the clients not be high as well?

I can ping from a laptop, up the tower, through the mikrotik to a client connected to the SR2 faster than I can ping from a laptop, up the tower, to the ethernet port of the mikrotik.

Justin

6

so ping from

 laptop <--ethernet->  MT <--wireless--> client

goes faster than

laptop <--ethernet->  MT

as router do not need to process packed and answer it, it is faster than just send it through

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yes that is what it is doing. If the 2 interfaces are bridged should routing not be going on?