Hello for My friends who love Mikrotik Hard and Soft..!
i am really so curious to understand this issue..!
in L3 Hardware offloading why it must to use Bridge and Vlan in order to get advantage of this feature..?
(i don’t know if some of you watched Mr.Wilmer almazan video in his channel network trip) here is it https://youtu.be/c2sAA6jMjCY?si=lfb2CGHqIaDG1sTB
i mean if we assigned an IP address to physical interface directly and creating the routing based on that why it’s not possible..?
The way things are implemented in ROS it’s bridge functionality that gets offloaded to underlying switch (hardware). And L3HW offload is again offloaded to switch. Hence requirement to use bridge (and consequently VLANs to separate different networks) in order to offload anything to hardware.
And then there’s additional limit about single bridge being offloaded to hardware. Which might be another reason not to offload individual interfaces (usually device has many of them).
Configure as per your hardware model:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Basic+VLAN+switching