A popular question on the forum recently has been the performance testing procedure of RouterBOARD devices. Some people expressed interest in repeating the tests, or doing the same tests with some additional configuration. We have written a new article specifically for this reason, by using the RB1100AHx2 as an example:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Performance_Testing_with_Traffic_Generator
WOW!
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Good article. And its really good to see fast path 
+1. I couldn’t agree more. Very nice normis.
Great article, I agree. Thank you for the clear explanation on how to replicate your results. Traffic generator seems like another ROS tool that puts Mikrotik above the rest. …I just don’t see the point to fastpath if firewall and conn track have to be off. Can anyone explain in what situations it would be useful?
If your router is acting purely as a router and nothing else.
Would Equal Cost Multipath still work with fastpath? If so I could use it to distribute traffic to multiple firewall/mangle boxes for higher throughput.
Simple* ECMP routes are the same as regular routes from IPv4 forwarding point of view
So, YES, fastpath will work with ECMP
* - no marks involved
Awesome article!
Did you claim your free MT license for the article ?;]
I didn’t write it 
I hope that’s not the procedure you use to report your “rfc2544 thoughput numbers”. There’s a reason for the rfc, so that we all use the same test procedure.
no, this is only for users who want to test their routers and do some number crunching. RFC test is done one professional testing equipment other way, as you say - there would not be any reason to run them if they are not comparable.
What about wireless testing?
You can use same technique
Thank you Normis for article and explanation.
Great article…looking forward to seeing more detail on testing and performance of the variants of the CCR series
Hello,
I am new to this forum and I would like to ask a question regarding these tests, in case one of you guys knows something.
I am looking at the routerboard metal 5SHPN specifications, that are provided in this webpage: http://routerboard.com/RBMetal5SHPn, and in the performance test results they are mentioning Gbit port.
However, the specs say that the device only has one FE port.
How can they perform a test on a Gb port, with achieved BW of 997.9M (packet size 1518), when the device’s port is a FE one?
What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
How to configure a Mikrotik Router to replace CPE (Customer-premises equipment) router?
for example the SXT devices already come pre-configured for CPE usage. All you need to do, is open 192.168.88.1 from the ethernet cable side, and enter the SSID name of the wireless AP.