Should hardware offloading be enabled on both switch cpus?

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I have a CRS-354 switch, and am curious about whether l3-hw-offloading should be enabled on both the Marvell and the Atheros chips. Documentation tends to only refer to set 0 which refers in this case to switch 1, or the Marvell chip. It’s unclear to me what the second chip is for, and if l3-hw-offloading should be enabled on it as well.


# NAME     TYPE              L3-HW-OFFLOADING
0 switch1  Marvell-98DX3257  yes
1 switch2  Atheros-8227      no
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in ports you can see which ports belong to which chip

i think atheros is for MGMT interface only, please do not bridge your management interface with hardware offload ones

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Ahhhh, didn’t even think to look there. Yeah, all my LAN ports that I have in a single bridge, and my WAN port, are on switch 1. The management port is on switch 2.

Thanks so much. I was hoping that I was just missing something obvious, and it turns out I was. :slight_smile: