Community discussions

MikroTik App
 
zandhaas
Frequent Visitor
Frequent Visitor
Topic Author
Posts: 73
Joined: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:02 pm
Location: The Netherlands

FastTrack vs HW-Offload

Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:21 pm

I'm new to Mikrotik routers and have a first question to the community.

When I want maximum performance is it adviseble to use Fasttrack even if hw-offloading is active??

Can someone explain the difference between both features apart from the fact that Fasttrack is Software and HW-Offloading is on the hardware level.
 
User avatar
mkx
Forum Guru
Forum Guru
Posts: 11437
Joined: Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:23 pm

Re: FastTrack vs HW-Offload

Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:33 pm

HW offloading is a feature that helps with forwarding L2 frames between ethernet ports (short: ethernet switching).

Fasttrack is a feature which helps with faster performance of firewall (which is L3 function, working on IPv4 level).

So both features don't have any intersection at all.
 
zandhaas
Frequent Visitor
Frequent Visitor
Topic Author
Posts: 73
Joined: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:02 pm
Location: The Netherlands

Re: FastTrack vs HW-Offload

Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:40 pm

Thank you Mkx for the clear anwser.

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: cdblue, madstupid and 43 guests