Testing VXLAN on V7.18.2




Hi everyone, I’m testing VXLAN in version 7.18.2 to test the hardware
offload, but I think I’ve run into a problem. I configured a VXLAN between two switches, I placed both VXLANs inside the bridge. In the bridge, I placed the SFP1 of each switch that goes to other Mikrotik.
In other words, each switch in its SFP1 has a Router Mikrotik connected. Well, with the SFP1 and VXLAN placed in the bridge on both switches , VLAN filtering active, I configured VLAN3010 on both Router Mikrotik, sending to the switch and on the switch in bridge VLAN, I configured VLAN3010 on the SFP1 and VXLAN ports tag members.
So far so good, the two Mikrotiks that are connected to the switch are pinging each other through VLAN3010. Now comes the problem, if HW and FastPath are marked in vxlan, everything still works, but if in bridge > port I mark Hardware Offload in vxlan, on either side, it stops working. One is a CRS309 and the other is a CRS305, but I noticed that looking at the HW3 Oflload manual, it seems to me that there is no HW support in vxlan on the CRS305, could someone confirm and help me?

Did you use vlan in your configuration? I can’t get vorking config on it on CRS504

vlan 887 → qsfp(tagged) → bridge (tagged, vlan filtering on) → vxlan887(untagged) → other side of vxlan.

Can’t see traffic on Vxlan interface with any HW settings in switch :frowning:

I have tested the same configuration on previos version of RouterOS software, it was worked, but with 100% CPU load and depressing performance about 100mbps. We need vxlan to link clients vlans over L3 network. Now CRS2004 routers do it much better, but EoIP tunnels gives twice performance over than Vxlan there. Hope only for HW support on mikrotik switches with vlan support.
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