Offloading bandwidth queues - Transparent?

RouterOS General
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I am needing to offload some bandwidth queing to a seperate CCR, I thought I could do this potentially with a transparent traffic shaper, but I am running into some issues.

I have created a bridge and added two of the ports ether2 & ether 3 into the bridge, I see traffic passing on ether2 and ether3 but cannot mangle the traffic. I essentially have this configuration but I cannot see any of the traffic at all.

Apparently a CCR1009 can’t do this?

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/TransparentTrafficShaper

Is this still correct, I know its an older article but I was thinking it would still work.

edit: a hexS routerboard can see the traffic on the ethernet ports, whereas the CCR1009 does not. Do all CCR’s behave this way? I need to do some bandwidth control on over 1Gbps connections.

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Depends which CCR1009 in particular … CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+ has a switch chip managing ether1-ether5 … to have traffic through those ports to hit bridge code one has to disable HW offload.

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It is a CCR1009-8G-1S-PC, maybe I’ll try the upper ports, looks like it may have group 1 as ether1-4

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Nice, so I have it working.

I used ether6 and ether7, put them in a bridge and made sure to use IP Firewall and Use IP firewall for VLAN and it took off. I am going to need a bigger router for some of my 1Gbps+ connections to do this, but it looks like its working.

Anyone else doing larger feeds and using Mikrotiks to headend the connections?