hw=yes not showing as hw offload?

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi,

I’ve enabled “hw=yes” on the ether ports, however in the GUI, it doesn’t actually have that ticked when adding to bridge1? If however you go back to making a port connected to “bridge” then the HW offload is ticked. There is no way for you to tick “HW. Offload” in “Status” too. You can however tick “Hardware Offload” in “Bridge > Ports > General” This option has been ticked.

Again, “hw=yes” is set

2

first, which router / switch model?

Devices with only 1 switch chip, will only support HW offload on one / first bridge created

3

Apologies. It’s the CRS328-24P-4S+RM
Why do I even need to create a “bridge=1” any way? It’s mentioned but I’ve got no idea why I need to bother with creating a separate bridge , when all I want it to do is act like a Cisco 2960G switch, that provides PoE but at a far cheaper price (and less fan use/power)

4

To bridge the ports

5

Sure, but why would I need to make another one, when one already exists that’s called “bridge” ?

6

You shouldn’t need to

7

Awesome. It’s just that Mikrotik’s own guide said to add it in, and I was like “But why?” I’ll try just using the default bridge, given it offloads to the switch, so therefore should be “wire speed” and not done in software.

8

Given you’ve said that I’ve configured my Mikrotik as follows:

/interface bridge
add name=bridge
/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridge comment="WiFi (switchport access vlan 10)" interface=ether1 \
    pvid=10
add bridge=bridge comment="WiFi (switchport access vlan 10)" interface=ether2 \
    pvid=10
add bridge=bridge comment="WiFi (switchport access vlan 10)" interface=ether3 \
    pvid=10
add bridge=bridge comment="NAS (switchport access vlan 10)" interface=ether4 \
    pvid=10
add bridge=bridge comment="Telephony (switchport access vlan 10)" interface=\
    ether5 pvid=50
add bridge=bridge comment="Guesti (switchport access vlan 60)" interface=ether6 \
    pvid=60
add bridge=bridge comment="IP Cameras (switchport access vlan 30)" interface=\
    ether7 pvid=30
add bridge=bridge comment="IP Cameras (switchport access vlan 30)" interface=\
    ether8 pvid=30
add bridge=bridge comment="IP Cameras (switchport access vlan 30)" interface=\
    ether9 pvid=30
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=sfp-sfpplus1
set bridge1 vlan-filtering=yes
ingress-filtering=yes 
/interface bridge vlan
add bridge=bridge comment="tagged sfp-plus1" tagged=sfp-sfpplus1 vlan-ids=10
add bridge=bridge comment="tagged sfp-sfpplus1,ether1-3,trunk VL20" tagged=\
    sfp-sfpplus1,ether1,ether2,ether3 vlan-ids=20
add bridge=bridge comment="tagged sfp-sfpplus1, trunk VL30" tagged=sfp-sfpplus1 \
    vlan-ids=30
add bridge=bridge comment="tagged sfp-sfpplus1, trunk VL40" tagged=sfp-sfpplus1 \
    vlan-ids=40
add bridge=bridge comment="tagged sfp-sfpplus1, trunk VL50" tagged=sfp-sfpplus1 \
    vlan-ids=50
add bridge=bridge comment="tagged sfp-sfpplus1,ether1-3,trunk VL60" tagged=\
    sfp-sfpplus1,ether1,ether2,ether3 vlan-ids=60
add bridge=bridge comment="tagged sfp-sfpplus1, trunk VL70" tagged=sfp-sfpplus1 \
    vlan-ids=70
/interface vlan
add interface=bridge name=Management vlan-id=40
/ip address
add address=192.168.88.1/24 comment=defconf interface=bridge network=\
    192.168.88.0
add address=10.10.40.2/24 interface=Management network=10.10.40.0
/ip route
add distance=1 gateway=10.10.40.1

Hopefully this “just works” when I try connecting it!

9

Mikrotik (And other vendors) assume the reader will have some technical knowledge / experience, the wiki is nt “Dummy Guides” as they have no way of knowing the multiple configs out there in the world.

It might be that you have reset your device with no configuration and wants to create all from scratch, hence Mikrotik mentions to create a bridge.
If there is already a bridge as per default config, then just skip the step…