RX/TX on Interface

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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I just now tried to rate shape the speed using winbox.

I went to Interfaces → eth2 → General → Bandwidth (RX/TX):

If you want to rate shape on an interface, I think the description of RX/TX is wrong in winbox.


Normally on switches the RX and TX is referring to how traffic flows in or out of the Interface you are working on.

As an example if you have a laptop plugged into the port and you want to rate shape the upload of the laptop, for most switch vendors you would rate shape the RX of the interface. The mikrotik 3011 I tested on is reversed. You have to rate shape the TX to affect the upload of the laptop.

This is confusing for most people that have worked on all other switches. Is this just a typo for winbox? Or is mikrotik backwards or doing it different?

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If you want to shape the traffic to the device, which downloading smth, you will choose Tx, cause you send traffic to the device. Every device transmitting the traffic to the devices. Downloading for the host is uploading for the switch/router.