I noticed that ether2 and ether3 are not displayed in the IRQ list on my RB433 MT5.9
Here is SS:
ether1 is displayed but ether2 and ether3 are NOT displayed ant those two (ether2&3) are in use. ether 1 is not in use.
Is this normal?
Looks like you have the switch chip enabled, do you have ports with ‘master port’ set?
no, on all three of my ether ports master port is set to “none”
I check again, and it is “none” for sure.
hmm 
Tried other things like:
-reboot
-hard reboot (disconnect power)
-check interface list
-update firmware (2.39 is newest): http://routerboard.com/fwf/43/ar7100-2.39.fwf
-update to 5.12?
If you exhaust your options and brain for ideas then next step is to sent report to support.
brandonrossl tnak you for help.
This is not normal situation, isnt it?
At the moment the firmware is 2.38 and normis said that 2.39 is not different except added support for new products.
I am going to try your suggested steps. This is so strange situation…
I did everything that you suggested, even more
1.) reboot - DID IT
2.) hard reboot (disconnect power) - DID IT
3.) check interface list - DID IT
4.) update to 5.12 - DID IT
5.) update firmware to 2.39 - DID IT
6.) run /system reset
7.) even Reset booter configuration through RS232
and nothing helped, situation is the same. ether1 is displayed, and ether2 & 3 are NOT displayed in IRQ list. Everything is working but they are not shown in IRQ list. Strange 
Can someone from Mikrotik support confirm that this is some error or what? Thank you! I do not know what to do next…
Sounds like you’ve taken every software option out there, which leaves a hardware failure on the table…
OMG
My last hope is that this is a firmware bug or so…!?
this is my settings. It is visible that there is no switch configured on ethernet ports and in the same time switc0 is shown. Please provide some help because it is confusing me.
[admin@ooo] /interface ethernet switch> print
Flags: I - invalid
# NAME TYPE MIRROR-SOURCE MIRROR-TARGET SWITCH-ALL-PORTS
0 switch1 IC-Plus-175D none none
[admin@ooo] /system resource irq> print
# IRQ USERS CPU ACTIVE-CPU COUNT
0 4 switch0 auto 0 159 244
1 5 ether1 auto 0 0
2 18 GPIO auto 0 0
3 19 serial auto 0 7
4 23 beeper auto 0 7
5 48 wlan1 auto 0 268 210
It is published in wiki:
ICPlus175D is present on newest versions of RB450(ether2-ether5) and RB433 series(ether2-ether3)
link: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Switch_Chip_Features
is this related to my problem???
Can someone, please, who has RB433 “in her/his hands” report if ether2 & 3 are listed in IRQ list (/system resource irq) or they are not listed?
TNX in advance!
Mine does not. But are your interfaces not showing up in winbox?
Yours are not listed in IRQ, same as mine? Or…?
My ethernet interfaces (all 3, ether1, ether2 and ether3) are normally displayed in ethernet interfaces list and they work properly but they are not listed in IRQ list - only ether1 has IRQ, and ether2 & ether3 do not have IRQ. Instead there is some wired switch0 IRQ.
Here is my print
[admin@000] /interface ethernet> print
Flags: X - disabled, R - running, S - slave
# NAME MTU MAC-ADDRESS ARP MASTER-PORT SWITCH
0 ether1 1500 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX enabled
1 R ether2 1500 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX enabled none switch1
2 R ether3 1500 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX enabled none switch1
[admin@000] /interface ethernet switch> print
Flags: I - invalid
# NAME TYPE MIRROR-SOURCE MIRROR-TARGET SWITCH-ALL-PORTS
0 switch1 IC-Plus-175D none none
[admin@000] /system resource irq> print
# IRQ USERS CPU ACTIVE-CPU COUNT
0 4 switch0 auto 0 3 962 825
1 5 ether1 auto 0 0
2 18 GPIO auto 0 0
3 19 serial auto 0 7
4 23 beeper auto 0 7
5 48 wlan1 auto 0 2 388 445
Could you print yours, please?
/system resource irq print
/interface ethernet switch print
/system resource irq print
Thank you!![/b]
Guys, no need to panic 
ether2 and ether3 are both using the IRQ shown as “switch0”
Even if you are not using switching function of ether2 and ether3, they are both connected to the CPU through the onboard switch chip IC-Plus-175D,
as the Atheros CPU only has support for two ethernet ports (one is ether1, the other is switch0).
The only thing that changes when you are setting master port, is that switching logic is enabled.
The IRQ however is always shared through switch0, regardless if you use switching logic or not.
Therefore, it is always better performance to route between ether1 and ether2+3, instead of routing between ether2 and ether3,
as those two ports share the same IRQ (and are constrained by bandwidth between CPU and switch chip).
hedele, thank you very much on your considerations!
It is a big help for understanding the situation!
Hm, how that IC-Plus-175D is named switch1 in “/interface ethernet switch” and in the same time switch0 in “/system resource irq”
Amazing! Are you sure for that!? Then my existing routing setup which uses ether2 for public internet & ether3 for LAN is wrong!? It will be better that I use for example ether1 for private LAN and ether2 for public internet?
Yes I am pretty sure that routing between ether1 and 2+3 is generally faster,
as far as I know, that was also already stated by some mikrotik guys here in the forum.
… and to be honest, it’s quite logical that routing is faster that way, if you take the IRQ and bandwidth sharing into accoung
Although, you will probably only notice a difference if you are pushing a lot of small packets instead of large ones,
as the CPU in RB433AH can easily saturate Fast Ethernet ports with large packets.
The difference is much more pronounced on mipsbe based Routerboards with Gigabit Ethernet ports (like 450G with switch-all-ports=no, 493G, etc)
If the Routerboard you are using features multiple switchgroups (like 1100AH and 493G), you should always route between switch groups instead of routing between ports in the same switch group (for the same reasons - IRQ and bandwidth sharing).
Note that this does not affect 700 series Routerboards, as there all ports are always connected on the same switch group and share one IRQ.
Thank you once again. Big help!
Can you, please, recommend ether1 (poe capable) is better for private LAN or for public Internet connection? Regarding choosing what interface will be for LAN and what for Public Internet? Or it is the same?
That is completely up to your personal preference, there is no performance difference.
Do you maybe know how that IC-Plus-175D is named switch1 in “/interface ethernet switch” and in the same time switch0 in “/system resource irq” ?
tnx
I guess that’s just some weird naming convention difference, you would have to ask mikrotik support why.
it’s like with MSI-X interrupts on the NIC: you have ‘ether1’ and ‘eth0-rx-0’, ‘eth0-tx-0’, etc.