Hello guys! This is my 1st post here… I’ve been searching for this and I found many posts but I think none of them are giving me the information I’m looking for…
I have to say that I am a total newbie on “networking topics” so it means that I don’t have no idea of how to do most of the things…
What I would like to do is to convert my old RB750GL into a simple switch taking advantage of its Atheros 8327 integrated chip.
The thing here is that I tried to follow many guides but there are some things missing on my switch (i.e. Master port on each port configuration to set them as Master-Slave…)
Now I’m having the 6.49.10 version installed and I have so many questions:
1.- In “Quick Set”, do I have to configure my 750GL in Bridge Mode or Router Mode
2.- On “Interfaces” menu, I have 1 bridge and 5 ethernet interfaces, all of them in Slave mode. It is ok? Or it is not using the Atheros 8327 chip and it is using the CPU instead for “switching” stuff?
3.- Keeping in mind that I only want it as a Switch, I suppose that I can disable firewall, NAT, etc…
Here’s a pic of the Interfaces I have:
Can you explain me how to convert it into a switch in the same way you’ll explain this to your lovely grandma???
I really appreciate you spending your time reading this and looking forward for your answers!
Empirically: Run an iperf3 test between two ports while you check the CPU usage with winbox. If CPU usage is low while it’s giving a result well over 900 Mbit/sec, it’s hardware-offloaded.
Inspection: Go to Bridge → Ports in winbox and look for the “H” flag, documented here. Ports without that flag will use the CPU even when forwarding to hosts on the same LAN.
Construction: If you have only one bridge defined and have everything set to its defaults, with no clever stuff going on, RouterOS should come up in hardware-offloaded mode without fail. If you can show otherwise by one of the two prior methods, I want to know why it fails.
If you ask my advice, you take those in reverse order, with the by-construction step already done, if I’m reading your prior post correctly. The next steps are to check it by inspection and by direct test.
I think it is now working correcly! it does not take more than 4-5% of the cpu when running Iperf3.
This switch is intended to be used by 4 computers. One of those for online gaming (for ether2)… Is there any other setting I should configure to improve it? I found out that playing online sometimes I lose the connection with the server and I need to restart the game.
