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FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:58 am
by strods
Starting from v6.29rc9, we introduced new and existing feature - FastTrack. Easy way to make your Firewall/NAT router up to 5x faster.

*) ipv4 fasttrack fastpath - accelerates connection tracking and nat for marked connections (more than 5x performance improvement compared to regular slow path conntrack/nat) - currently limited to TCP/UDP only;
*) added ~fasttrack-connection~ firewall action in filter/mangle tables for marking connections as fasttrack;
*) added fastpath support for bridge interfaces - packets received and transmitted on bridge interface can go fastpath (previously only bridge forwarded packets could go fastpath);
*) packets now can go half-fastpath - if input interface supports fastpath and packet gets forwarded in fastpath but output interface does not support fastpath or has interface queue other than only-hw-queue packet gets converted to slow path only at the dst interface transmit time;
*) trafflow: add natted addrs/ports to ipv4 flow info.

http://www.mikrotik.com/download/share/FastTrack.pdf

FastTrack documentation,
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Wi ... escription

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:05 am
by CyberTod
Can we get some bigger pictures. I can not see the firewall examples. Also if possible show examples in text version.
If I understand this correctly I have to make a mangle rule to mark packets as fasttrack. But then I guess I need to make another rule to make some processing with them ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:00 am
by macgaiver
As far as i understood, in case of regular home router, you should have these 3 rules in beginning of firewall filter forward, to use Fasttrack.
/ip firewall filter
add chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related
add chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related
add chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid
Note, that all packets that goes fasttrack, will not be visible in firewall and you will not be able to limit them in queue global.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:03 pm
by KBV
I added this rule to the top.
[admin@RB850Gx2] > /ip firewall filter print 
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 0    chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix="" 
 1    chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""
There were no changes in CPU Load. And:
/ip settings print
           [......]
allow-fast-path: yes
ipv4-fast-path-active: no
ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 0
:(

Still need some kind of action to get it working?

PS v6.29rc11

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:26 pm
by CyberTod
I will wait for 6.29 final before trying this, but in your rules you add a fasttrack rule and then an accept rule. What happens if there is no accept rule. Doesn't the fasttrack rule here do exactly this - passthrough all packets matched by it ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:35 pm
by tomaskir
I will wait for 6.29 final before trying this, but in your rules you add a fasttrack rule and then an accept rule. What happens if there is no accept rule. Doesn't the fasttrack rule here do exactly this - passthrough all packets matched by it ?
Yes, but accept is also needed - it was mentioned in the presentation that a few packets (10%) will still need to be processed outside of fast-track, because of connection integrity checking, out of order delivery, security, etc.

If you didnt have the normal allow, those would be dropped.

Check the MikroTik presentation from the US MUM.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:59 pm
by jarda
For the first moment it looked very exciting and promising.

But now I am not sure that adding additional rules, especially if they break other commonly used features like statistics and queues, will help significantly. Moreover when it is applicable only in some cases.

I would rather see some real improvement then such half-way things. There are surely reserves in packets processing and in memory usage that could be addressed...

If there are some conditions that would allow fasttrack, why I have to create additional user rules for it? Why packets that could be processed in fasttrack mode are not processed so transparently in the background?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:04 pm
by normis
The idea is to "fasttrack" some specific machine without slowing it's traffic for processing. Let's say you have a network of users, you have firewall and queues for them. But then you have a VIP customer (or your own PC) that you will not filter or slow down, and you want the best available speed for it. This is the situation for fasttrack.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:08 pm
by boen_robot
Yeah, but even in those cases, you still want the best available speed... That would not completely block out the rest of the network, so even "VIP" customers need SOME restrictions imposed on them.

I think this feature will be most useful when the MikroTik router is used as a CPE device - in those cases, you don't want to impose any restrictions onto the device itself, but you want to impose them upstream, at your central router(s). So if both routers are MikroTik routers, you can use fastpath, and fasttrack to get the best inner-network performance, and still apply statistics and queues on the "edge" routers.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:10 pm
by normis
My home devices also don't need any filtering or queuing. The AP is only there for wireless access. Why not make the internet faster with a few rules?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:14 pm
by jarda
Normis, that should be said before.
Boen_robot, agree with you.

We will see how it will be effective in real traffic situations. But I still would rather see some general improvements like I wrote before.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:50 pm
by strods
KBV - Did you use CCR device? FastTrack will work properly on CCR devices starting from 6.29rc14 version

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:56 pm
by tomaskir
Question - if I have no rules in forward chain - only in input chain (typical transit router) - will FastTrack be active?

IMO, if there are no rules in a default chain, that chain should automatically be FastTracked (so I dont have to add rules now to tons of transit routers to take advantage of FastTrack).

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 3:43 pm
by macgaiver
It is not about filter rules, it is also about NAT. Basically it is fastpath solution when connection tracking is necessary.
You obviously need to process some packets normal way through the connection tracking to put all local/public IPs in order, so i do not think that automatic fasttrack is possible. Nut i think it should be in all board default config that also have NAT.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:40 pm
by KBV
It is not about filter rules, it is also about NAT. Basically it is fastpath solution when connection tracking is necessary
Connection tracking can operate without NAT, It is rather a function of the "Full State Firewall"
If the FS firewall and NAT is not necessary, tracking is better forcibly disable :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:29 pm
by tron
FastTrack
great improvement, thanks... just tested a bit :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:33 pm
by 105547111
Wow simply adding the filter to accept fasttrack and away it goes...

ip settings print
ip-forward: yes
send-redirects: yes
accept-source-route: no
accept-redirects: no
secure-redirects: yes
rp-filter: no
tcp-syncookies: no
max-arp-entries: 8192
arp-timeout: 30s
icmp-rate-limit: 10
icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
allow-fast-path: yes
ipv4-fast-path-active: no
ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 268210
ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 307676029

I went 6.29rc13 due to the fix of the excessive sector-rewrites. I had a new router go from 1000 to over a million in its total sector-rewrite count due to 6.28 in yes 4 days uptime....

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:26 pm
by visalink
ip settings prin
ip-forward: yes
send-redirects: yes
accept-source-route: no
accept-redirects: no
secure-redirects: yes
rp-filter: no
tcp-syncookies: no
max-arp-entries: 8192
arp-timeout: 30s
icmp-rate-limit: 10
icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
allow-fast-path: yes
ipv4-fast-path-active: no
ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 0

:(
0 bytes

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:36 pm
by tron
visalink: How does/do your firewall rule/rules look like?

or

Did you use CCR device? FastTrack will work properly on CCR devices starting from 6.29rc14 version.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:06 pm
by KBV
KBV - Did you use CCR device? FastTrack will work properly on CCR devices starting from 6.29rc14 version
Oh, no. I did not know that it only works on CCR
I tried to run on 850gx2

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:15 pm
by tron
I run it on RB2011UAS-2HnD and it works.
fasttrack-works.png

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:30 pm
by visalink
visalink: How does/do your firewall rule/rules look like?

or

Did you use CCR device? FastTrack will work properly on CCR devices starting from 6.29rc14 version.
ip/firewall/filter
chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""
chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""

Only a test in RB750g, no result...

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:33 pm
by KBV
I feel there is some kind of trick :D

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:01 am
by Ulypka
On rb333 don't work.
ip fi filter print stats
1 forward fasttrack-connection 282 362 923 317 144
2 input accept 6 086 144 43 102
ip settings pr
ip-forward: yes
send-redirects: yes
accept-source-route: no
accept-redirects: no
secure-redirects: yes
rp-filter: no
tcp-syncookies: no
max-arp-entries: 8192
arp-timeout: 30s
icmp-rate-limit: 10
icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
allow-fast-path: yes
ipv4-fast-path-active: no
ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 0

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:41 am
by 105547111
It won't work unless there is some NAT, Bridges involved in your traffic, plus 6.29B13 upwards, plus of course accepting the fast-track in the filter rules..

For example Ive got 4 more MTs downstream in my network, but its only the one using NAT that it works on as its masquerading.

Ive not put in a single mangle rule for this, I have mangle rules for other routing, but merely putting in the filter rule to accept fast-track and its gone nuts - this in a great way. Yes I have noticed a throughput increase and BIG CPU drop in high use.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 6:46 am
by kez
Tested on my old and good RB333, but it seens it is not working.
I have a PPPoE client connection, so a dynamic mangle rule to "change MSS" to 1452.
Does it matter?
And yes, the counters are running for all filter rules.
[admin@RB333] > ip fi fi pri
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 0    chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix="" 
 1    chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix="" 
 2    chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid log=no log-prefix="" 
 [admin@NALTECSAT] > ip set pri  
ip-forward: yes
send-redirects: yes
accept-source-route: no
accept-redirects: no
secure-redirects: yes
rp-filter: no
tcp-syncookies: no
max-arp-entries: 8192
arp-timeout: 30s
icmp-rate-limit: 10
icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
allow-fast-path: yes
ipv4-fast-path-active: no
ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 0

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:20 am
by macgaiver
It is not about filter rules, it is also about NAT. Basically it is fastpath solution when connection tracking is necessary
Connection tracking can operate without NAT, It is rather a function of the "Full State Firewall"
If the FS firewall and NAT is not necessary, tracking is better forcibly disable :)
i think you misunderstood me - RB75x, RB95x, RB2011, hAP, mAP, cAP - most common setups on these boards includes masquerade rule and some firewall filters. So with this FastTrack feature you "magically" make them much faster. So i expect that default configuration (from factory), will have it enabled by default.

I did some testing, on FastTrack, I have 500Mbps connection at the office, sitting on CCR1009, for a test purpose i replaced it with RB2011, and run some "linux distribution" torrent download this morning.

Without FastTrack - 220-240Mbps download with CPU 100%
With FastTrack - 460-500Mbps (full pipe) download with CPU 56-84%

As i need queues and IPsec i switched back to CCR1009, but this opens lots of possibilities..

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:49 am
by macgaiver
Tested on my old and good RB333, but it seens it is not working.
I have a PPPoE client connection, so a dynamic mangle rule to "change MSS" to 1452.
Does it matter?
And yes, the counters are running for all filter rules.
This is just a theory..
1) FastTrack is a Conntrack extension of FastPath,
2) FastPath requires in and out interface support to work
3) pppoe-client doesn't have FastPath support

Result:
fasttrack doesn't work on pppoe-clients

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:53 am
by CyberTod
These results sound very promising. But can only be used in some configurations. The typical home router can benefit a lot.
But for example I want to somehow use this on ptp wireless connections, because i have a mangle rule to set nv2 priority from dscp for QoS. And as this changes header of all packets I guess fasttrack is not possible in this scenario ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:03 am
by macgaiver
These results sound very promising. But can only be used in some configurations. The typical home router can benefit a lot.
But for example I want to somehow use this on ptp wireless connections, because i have a mangle rule to set nv2 priority from dscp for QoS. And as this changes header of all packets I guess fasttrack is not possible in this scenario ?
I do not think it is possible, only changes made by ConnTrack is supported, in your case those are custom changes.

But it is a firewall action, so you can basically use it in any place where you have "accept everything else" logic just add "fasttrack everything else" rule before the accept.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:48 am
by fposavec
I tryed 6.29rc14 today, no joy :)
RB951G, cpu on 100%, routing take all cpu .
fast-track counting packages, but on ip settings no counter

I use VPLS/MPLS on this router

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:38 pm
by strods
At this moment FastTrack is not working on PowerPC devices, but with latest rc14 version it works on other platforms.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:38 pm
by jarda
These results sound very promising. But can only be used in some configurations. The typical home router can benefit a lot.
But for example I want to somehow use this on ptp wireless connections, because i have a mangle rule to set nv2 priority from dscp for QoS. And as this changes header of all packets I guess fasttrack is not possible in this scenario ?
I do not think it is possible, only changes made by ConnTrack is supported, in your case those are custom changes.

But it is a firewall action, so you can basically use it in any place where you have "accept everything else" logic just add "fasttrack everything else" rule before the accept.
Unfortunately I am dropping everything else, not accepting that...

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:43 pm
by jarda
But at least established and related could be fasttracked, hopefully. Had not time to make own tests so far...

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 6:17 pm
by ffernandes
playing with new feature with an rb411ar :)
had to enable wireless-fp to work?!?!
ip-forward: yes
send-redirects: yes
accept-source-route: no
accept-redirects: no
secure-redirects: yes
rp-filter: no
tcp-syncookies: no
max-arp-entries: 8192
arp-timeout: 30s
icmp-rate-limit: 10
icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
allow-fast-path: yes
ipv4-fast-path-active: no
ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 189561
ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 14324143

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:23 pm
by InoX
Is working for me with these rules:
/ip firewall filter
add chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related
add chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related
add chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:12 pm
by buckthis
Any chance RCs could include the 'wireless-cm2' package?
At least for mipsbe...

Thanks

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:30 pm
by vortex
It is the first time I want to upgrade RouterOS to get some feature.

I might not need to upgrade my RB2011 to take full advantage of my new pipe after all.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:38 am
by cheeze
Mikrotik, please PLEASE take your time. I don't think most of us care if you take 3 months. Take the time to perfect 6.29, or at least make it as good as possible.

Also, awesome :) :) :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:07 am
by Chupaka
Note, that all packets that goes fasttrack, will not be visible in firewall and you will not be able to limit them in queue global.
I wonder whether those packets will be accounted by Traffic Flow...

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 5:15 am
by nz_monkey
Note, that all packets that goes fasttrack, will not be visible in firewall and you will not be able to limit them in queue global.
I wonder whether those packets will be accounted by Traffic Flow...
That is a question I have too.

Mikrotik, can you shine a torch on this ? ;)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:07 am
by becs
In current implementation (6.29rc15) FastTracked (and FastPathed) packets will not be accounted in Traffic Flow.
But.. there are possibilities to extend FastPath/FastTrack feature set in the future.

At the moment, please, test basic FastTrack functionality, and report back if you encounter any issues.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:54 am
by normis
Any chance RCs could include the 'wireless-cm2' package?
At least for mipsbe...

Thanks
you can just guess the link:
http://www.mikrotik.com/download/share/ ... mipsbe.npk

the files are there

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:59 am
by ronniee
If this is something like "NAT Accelerator" or I don't know how is called by other manufacture, it's a very good job.
congratulation Mikrotik, I hope will be released soooooon.
There are some cheap brands like tpl.nk etc, at half price and do +2x faster pppoe/NAT like a MikroTik.

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:05 pm
by jarda
Looking like this will not work with pppoe. At least for now.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:20 pm
by honzam
All supported all platforms, including mipsle?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:55 pm
by macgaiver
Looks like currently it is implemented only in MIPSBE, i was not able to get other architectures working.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:06 pm
by KBV
Yes, it seems so.
I also tried it on MIPSBE. There are small oddities, but generally works well :)
On my other platforms it has not yet happened.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 12:11 am
by peeter123
I tried it on RB2011UiAS-2HnD with a VLAN for internet on my WAN port, this is in a bridge called bridge-wan with another VLAN for IPTV(needs different VLAN MAC). Added the firewall rules but internet stops working unless torch is active on the VLAN port(which stops fasttrack I guess).

Maybe some need to investigate?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 7:27 am
by patrick7
What about IPv6?

Is the rule with "action=accept" after the "action=fasttrack.." really required?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 2:32 pm
by joegoldman
Very big shame on no PPPoE client support - most of all networks I work with require PPP style connection with it being the out-interface for NAT.

Is there a limitation on being able to enable this for PPP connections making it not possible or is it something that is being worked on?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 8:44 pm
by BastiaanN
For me, on my 2011UiAS-2HnD with 6.29rc14 "IPv4 Fasttrack Active" keeps saying no whilst i have added the firewall rule. Am i missing something?
[admin@MikroTik] > /ip firewall filter print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 0    ;;; default configuration
      chain=forward action=drop connection-state=new 
      connection-nat-state=!dstnat in-interface=wan log=no log-prefix="" 

 1    chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection 
      connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix="" 

 2    ;;; default configuration
      chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no 
      log-prefix="" 

 3    ;;; default configuration
      chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid log=no log-prefix="" 
[admin@MikroTik] > /ip settings print
              ip-forward: yes
          send-redirects: yes
     accept-source-route: no
        accept-redirects: no
        secure-redirects: yes
               rp-filter: no
          tcp-syncookies: no
         max-arp-entries: 8192
             arp-timeout: 30s
         icmp-rate-limit: 10
          icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
         allow-fast-path: yes
   ipv4-fast-path-active: no
  ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
    ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
   ipv4-fasttrack-active: no
  ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 852
    ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 395836
Edit: Nevermind, in the web interface i can see fasttrack gets disabled as soon as i connect winbox through the MAC adress of the router.... It does not do it when i use the assigned ip adress.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 8:05 am
by D1M0N
[admin@Matrix] > ip firewall filter print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 0    ;;; Fasttrack
      chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection 
      connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix="" 

 1    ;;; Fasttrack
      chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no 
      log-prefix="" 

 2    ;;; Fasttrack
      chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid log=no log-prefix="" 

 3    ;;; Add Syn Flood IP to the list
      chain=input action=add-src-to-address-list tcp-flags=syn protocol=tcp 
      address-list=Syn_Flooder address-list-timeout=30m 
      connection-limit=30,32 log=no log-prefix="" 

 4    ;;; allow l2tp
      chain=input action=accept protocol=udp dst-port=1701 log=no 
      log-prefix="" 

 5    ;;; allow pptp
      chain=input action=accept protocol=tcp dst-port=1723 log=no 
[admin@Matrix] > ip settings print
              ip-forward: yes
          send-redirects: yes
     accept-source-route: no
        accept-redirects: no
        secure-redirects: yes
               rp-filter: no
          tcp-syncookies: no
         max-arp-entries: 8192
             arp-timeout: 30s
         icmp-rate-limit: 10
          icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
         allow-fast-path: yes
   ipv4-fast-path-active: no
  ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
    ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
   ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
  ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 124436175
    ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 73674832855

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 4:28 pm
by etm7469
Work fine RB951G-2HnD - 6.29rc14


/ip settings> print
ip-forward: yes
send-redirects: yes
accept-source-route: no
accept-redirects: no
secure-redirects: yes
rp-filter: no
tcp-syncookies: no
max-arp-entries: 8192
arp-timeout: 30s
icmp-rate-limit: 10
icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
allow-fast-path: yes
ipv4-fast-path-active: no
ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 9958656
ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 10423205479

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 1:46 pm
by tron
6.29rc14
With enabled FastTrack increased connections with last-ack state, is that normal?
/ip firewall filter
add action=fasttrack-connection chain=forward comment=\
    "fasttrack established+related" connection-state=established,related
    
add chain=forward comment="enable established+related" connection-state=\
    established,related
    
add action=drop chain=forward comment="drop invalid" connection-state=\
    invalid
last-ack.png

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 12:21 am
by dhoulbrooke
I'm guessing this doesn't work on vlan interfaces yet? Or have I missed something?
Below from a CCR running 6.29rc14:
/ip firewall filter
add action=fasttrack-connection chain=forward comment="Accept established/related" connection-state=established,related in-interface=vlan10
add chain=forward comment="Accept established/related" connection-state=established,related in-interface=vlan10
add action=drop chain=forward comment="Drop invalid" connection-state=invalid in-interface=vlan10
add action=drop chain=forward comment="Drop everything else" in-interface=vlan10
              ip-forward: yes
          send-redirects: no
     accept-source-route: no
        accept-redirects: no
        secure-redirects: no
               rp-filter: strict
          tcp-syncookies: no
         max-arp-entries: 8192
             arp-timeout: 30s
         icmp-rate-limit: 10
          icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
         allow-fast-path: yes
   ipv4-fast-path-active: no
  ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
    ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
   ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
  ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 0
    ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 0

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 9:15 pm
by Zorro
My home devices also don't need any filtering or queuing. The AP is only there for wireless access. Why not make the internet faster with a few rules?
just a guess: "because complormised SOHO/home network may cost consumers ANYthing, inlcluding their lives, sometimes"? or "because secuirty is least feature to sacrifice in networking/devices/" or maybe "because its proper Kung-Foo" ?
just sayin.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 12:32 am
by sigxcpu
6.29rc14
With enabled FastTrack increased connections with last-ack state, is that normal?
/ip firewall filter
add action=fasttrack-connection chain=forward comment=\
    "fasttrack established+related" connection-state=established,related
    
add chain=forward comment="enable established+related" connection-state=\
    established,related
    
add action=drop chain=forward comment="drop invalid" connection-state=\
    invalid
last-ack.png
Same here.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 1:37 am
by patrick7
Hm - after some testing:

Looks like UDP packages have some problems - example SNMP. Only the first line of snmpwalk will be shown. TCP doesn't work correct too (connection timeouts). RouterOS 6.29, RB951G-2HnD

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 12:40 pm
by macgaiver
Hm - after some testing:

Looks like UDP packages have some problems - example SNMP. Only the first line of snmpwalk will be shown. TCP doesn't work correct too (connection timeouts). RouterOS 6.29, RB951G-2HnD
I tested SNMP walk - all ok, also what is wrong With TCP? How did you test that?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 2:24 pm
by patrick7
Icinga Monitoring ;-) And after that I tested SNMPWALK and Netcat to TCP ports and connection was not possible.

I used this rules (are now disabled):

0 X ;;; Allow Established / Related
chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection
connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""

1 chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no
log-prefix=""


in forwarding chain.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 5:04 am
by nz_monkey
Does fasttrack work with vlans ?

Do the fastpath bridge improvements mentioned in the MUM presentation extend to vlans and bonding ? e.g. can traffic on vlan or bonding interfaces go via fastpath ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 8:57 am
by strods
FastTrack is an extension of FastPath - both have same set of requirements.

So ATM both doesn't have support for VLAN interfaces, but it is on top of our FastPath To-Do list.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:07 pm
by nz_monkey
FastTrack is an extension of FastPath - both have same set of requirements.

So ATM both doesn't have support for VLAN interfaces, but it is on top of our FastPath To-Do list.
Thank you for the answer Strods

What about bonding ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 1:28 pm
by macgaiver
What about bonding ?
I think this answers also about bonding:
FastTrack is an extension of FastPath - both have same set of requirements.
and also hints that it is not on "top of their FastPath To-Do list" :)


after week of testing on my RB2011 at home i notice:
1) connection tracking table is polutied with ~40k connections in "last ack" state (usually have <500 entries in conntrack)
2) free memory is down from 105MiB to 80MIB (most likely this is result the result of 1) )
3) Average CPU load is down 2-3times.

In regular home usage i was not able to find any issues downloading,browsing,gaming,streaming, or Voiping.

as network administrator i would like to see some read-only "dummy rule" with comment "fasttrack traffic" in firewall and queues.
it is very easy to forget that big chunk of the traffic is taking shortcut and is not visible somewhere.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 5:21 pm
by torjon
6.29rc14 with fasttrack enable is unusable.
I was testing it on few boards (Omnitik, RB750, RB750GL, RB532A).
After few hours: "router was rebooted without proper shutdown by watchdog timer".

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 11:11 pm
by PtDragon
FasTtrack bug - "last ack" status is for 24h instead of several seconds.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 10:39 pm
by chechito
counters for fast path are a good improvement, thank you

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 10:38 pm
by honzam
What happened with 6.29rc? rc14 is 12days old.

Usualy RC are updated hourly as you say on download site: RouterOS v6.x release candidate - These versions are updated hourly

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 9:17 am
by strods
Unfortunately drivers of RB1xx, RB5xx, RB850 devices does not support FastPath feature so also FastTrack is not possible on these RouterBOARD models.

Starting from version 6.29rc18 fix for last-ack state connections polluting Connection Tracking table is available for testing. You can download it here:
http://www.mikrotik.com/download

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 5:35 pm
by 105547111
rc18 is a improvement with the connections get cleared out :)

Working well

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 8:57 pm
by patrick7
On RC14 I had the problem, that ARP on VLANs was broken (client got an IP with DHCP, but was not even arp-pingable). After downgrade, problem was solved. Anyone else?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 9:30 pm
by sigxcpu
Unfortunately drivers of RB1xx, RB5xx, RB850 devices does not support FastPath feature so also FastTrack is not possible on these RouterBOARD models.

Starting from version 6.29rc18 fix for last-ack state connections polluting Connection Tracking table is available for testing. You can download it here:
http://www.mikrotik.com/download
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path shows RB1100 supporting FastPath on 1-10,11

Which one is true?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 10:26 pm
by honzam
Unfortunately drivers of RB1xx, RB5xx, RB850 devices does not support FastPath feature so also FastTrack is not possible on these RouterBOARD models.

Starting from version 6.29rc18 fix for last-ack state connections polluting Connection Tracking table is available for testing. You can download it here:
http://www.mikrotik.com/download
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path shows RB1100 supporting FastPath on 1-10,11

Which one is true?
Strods wrote: rb1xx - it mean rb133, rb150, rb153 etc...
You mean rb1100 - it is rb1xxx. And it is supported

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 12:20 am
by sigxcpu
Unfortunately drivers of RB1xx, RB5xx, RB850 devices does not support FastPath feature so also FastTrack is not possible on these RouterBOARD models.

Starting from version 6.29rc18 fix for last-ack state connections polluting Connection Tracking table is available for testing. You can download it here:
http://www.mikrotik.com/download
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path shows RB1100 supporting FastPath on 1-10,11

Which one is true?
Strods wrote: rb1xx - it mean rb133, rb150, rb153 etc...
You mean rb1100 - it is rb1xxx. And it is supported
Uh, my bad. Didn't know about RB1XX boards (didn't find them on routerboard.com).
Do you know if it is supported on RB1100 as of today (ppc wasn't supported in rc14)?

Thanks.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 8:39 am
by strods
Sorry if my post was not fully clear. Yes RB1xx does not support FastTrack. RB1xxx does support FastTrack. Rb1xx are pretty old devices and support for FastPath is not added to them.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 8:53 am
by Ulypka
Why not support FastTrack in RB850?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 12:25 pm
by dmi3
rb2011, 6.29rc18
i got a lot of rules, just added fasttrack at the end, got no "last ack" problem, something forwarding
am i doing wright?
Image

upd1: after 1 hour counter in IP-firewall is ticking, but on ip-settings fasttrack and fastpaph show disabled :o

can someone help me with RC, i got 2 questions, where can i find main topic about 6.29RC?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 1:45 pm
by strods
dmi3 - If your counters under IP/Settings are rising, then yes - FastTrack is working. Please write about your 6.29rc problems in this topic - http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=96048
Ulypka - Drivers of ethernet interfaces for this device does not support FastPath so also FastTrack is not supported.

Important note: Previously mentioned model devices does not support FastTrack on their ethernet interfaces. If, for example, you would use RB433 with wireless-fp package, then you can configure FastTrack on wireless because FastPath on wireless is possible there.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 1:50 pm
by vortex
So, it is not a hardware limitation then? For which devices is it really impossible?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 2:10 pm
by dmi3
dmi3 - If your counters under IP/Settings are rising, then yes - FastTrack is working. Please write about your 6.29rc problems in this topic - http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=96048
thx!
as i updated earlier: my fasttrack working about 2 hours but then counter in IP-firewall is ticking, on ip-settings fasttrack and fastpaph show disabled :o
Image
is it bug?

only change i made - reconnect CAP to itself capsman server, but i dont think its the reason

UPD1: after 2 more hours my fastttrack Active chechbox on ip-settings is back! omg
maybe winbox issue?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 10:11 pm
by 105547111
I just checked - 6.29rc20 is out......

What's new in 6.29rc20 (2015-May-14 16:00):

*) fasttrack - correctly close fasttrack connections;
*) firewall - fixed sector writes rising starting since 6.28;
*) tile - fixed fasttrack;
*) snmp - fix rare bug when some OIDs where skipped;
*) ssh - added aes-ctr cipher support;
*) mesh - fixed kernel crash;
*) ipv4 fasttrack fastpath - accelerates connection tracking and nat for marked
connections (more than 5x performance improvement compared to regular slow
path conntrack/nat) - currently limited to TCP/UDP only;
*) added ~fasttrack-connection~ firewall action in filter/mangle tables for marking
connections as fasttrack;
*) added fastpath support for bridge interfaces - packets received and transmitted
on bridge interface can go fastpath (previously only bridge forwarded packets
could go fastpath);
*) packets now can go half-fastpath - if input interface supports fastpath and
packet gets forwarded in fastpath but output interface does not support fastpath
or has interface queue other than only-hw-queue packet gets converted
to slow path only at the dst interface transmit time;
*) trafflow: add natted addrs/ports to ipv4 flow info;
*) queue tree: some queues would stop working after some configuration changes;
*) tilegx: enable autoneg for sfp ports in netinstall;
*) health - fix voltage on some RB4xx;
*) romon - fix 100% CPU usage;
*) romon - moved under tools menu in console;
*) email - store hostname for consistency;
*) vrrp - do not reset interface when no interesting config changes;
*) async - fixed ppp server;
*) sstp - fixed router lockup;
*) queue tree: some queues would stop working after some configuration changes.
*) console - allow '-' characters in unknown command argument names;
*) snmp - fix rare bug when some OIDs where skipped;
*) fixed CRS226 10G ports could lose link (introduced in 6.28);
*) fixed FREAK vulnerability in SSL & TLS;

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 2:14 pm
by jarda
snmp was fixed twice or once fixed and secondly broken again? :-)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 9:23 pm
by boen_robot
*) ssh - added aes-ctr cipher support;
Yes! Finally, I would be able to create ROS VMs with Packer.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 8:35 pm
by G2Dolphin
Noticed new action icons on the "Firewall - Filter Rules"... and they are damn pretty! Does all icons will be new, just like them?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 5:04 am
by kez
Noticed new action icons on the "Firewall - Filter Rules"... and they are damn pretty! Does all icons will be new, just like them?
I guess the Winbox main icons has been changed as well.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 8:14 am
by G2Dolphin
I guess the Winbox main icons has been changed as well.
No, the Winbox haven't changed since 3.0rc9. But just after installing RC of 6.29 I saw them.

And there are still old icons when connection to some older firmwares.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 2:31 am
by kez
I guess the Winbox main icons has been changed as well.
No, the Winbox haven't changed since 3.0rc9. But just after installing RC of 6.29 I saw them.

And there are still old icons when connection to some older firmwares.
You know, Winbox download DLL files from your device. So, if you use the new RC version, the new pack of icons will be used.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 8:07 am
by poofeg
Why not to mark packet at mangle postrouting? Like this:
/ip firewall mangle
add action=fasttrack-connection chain=postrouting
All traffic already have filtered and we also mark new connection.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 11:31 am
by dadaniel
Why not to mark packet at mangle postrouting?
It does only make sense to use FastTrack on specific (known) connections before they enter filter/other routing chains. Using it afterwards makes no sense at all...

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 11:59 am
by poofeg
Why not to mark packet at mangle postrouting?
It does only make sense to use FastTrack on specific (known) connections before they enter filter/other routing chains. Using it afterwards makes no sense at all...
We mark whole connection. It is better mark first packet (when connection state is new), but after all filters. Maybe it is better to do in mangle postrouting chain.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 11:22 pm
by BastiaanN
My ISP offers different services on the WAN side with the help of VLANS. e.g:

- VLAN34 is internet
- VLAN 4 is digital television
- VLAN 7 is SIP / Telephony.

Can i do something clever to be able to use fasttrack for the internet traffic? On my 200/200mbps connection i can see that the Mikrotik really has a hard time handling the traffic.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 10:23 am
by MadEngineer
Have another device strip the tagging?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 10:30 am
by nz_monkey
Mikrotik have mentioned that FastTrack will get vlan support.

We just have to be patient ;)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 11:01 am
by MadEngineer
Wow good news, thanks

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 11:07 am
by chechito
My ISP offers different services on the WAN side with the help of VLANS. e.g:

- VLAN34 is internet
- VLAN 4 is digital television
- VLAN 7 is SIP / Telephony.

Can i do something clever to be able to use fasttrack for the internet traffic? On my 200/200mbps connection i can see that the Mikrotik really has a hard time handling the traffic.
maybe the other vlans can be manged at wire speed with rb switch if apply, only nat needed for internet traffic

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 11:43 am
by macgaiver
Why not to mark packet at mangle postrouting?
It does only make sense to use FastTrack on specific (known) connections before they enter filter/other routing chains. Using it afterwards makes no sense at all...
We mark whole connection. It is better mark first packet (when connection state is new), but after all filters. Maybe it is better to do in mangle postrouting chain.
It is much easier to think about fasttrack as flag in the Conntrack table.

so far i have implemented 3 scenarios:

1) in " drop everything else" style firewall, best is to fasttrack connection-state=established,related cause connection-state=new packets have to go through all the firewall filter rules, and we can fasttrack connection only starting from first established packet.

2)in "accept everything else" style firewall, you can just place fasttrack rule in the end of firewall chain.

3) if you use queues, in mangle mark connections with connection-mark and then in the end fasttrack all connections that doesn't have connection-mark.

In any of these cases i use chain=forward, as fasttrack doesn't work on input and output traffic.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 12:13 pm
by pav5
working fasttrack 6.29 x86 ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 2:17 pm
by nz_monkey
working fasttrack 6.29 x86 ?
That would require RouterOS x86 to use DPDK.

No small task!

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 2:07 pm
by mnasir
1. b450g supported?
2. what about ip/ proxy with fasttrack?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 5:18 pm
by dadaniel
best is to fasttrack connection-state=established,related
Is this fasttrack rule replacing the default "accept connection-state=established,related"-rule or do I still need it?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 5:53 pm
by hedele
My guess is you still need it, because not all connections can be fast-tracked. So you probably have to put the fast-track rule first, and a "normal" established/related accept rule afterwards to catch non-fasttrackable connections (like gre, ipsec-esp, icmp, etc...)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 8:53 pm
by jarda
My guess is you still need it, because not all connections can be fast-tracked. So you probably have to put the fast-track rule first, and a "normal" established/related accept rule afterwards to catch non-fasttrackable connections (like gre, ipsec-esp, icmp, etc...)
This is good idea IMHO. Looking forward to test fasttrack soon.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 11:11 am
by macgaiver
My guess is you still need it, because not all connections can be fast-tracked. So you probably have to put the fast-track rule first, and a "normal" established/related accept rule afterwards to catch non-fasttrackable connections (like gre, ipsec-esp, icmp, etc...)
This is also for connections that uses fasttrack, as far as i can see some of the packets are going the slow path to maintain all the timeouts and states in order.

As it was told in MUM presentation "fasttrack-connection" works similar to "connection-mark" so even when triggered, packet passes through to the next rule. Only following packets from this connection will go FastPath, one that triggered "fasttrack-connection" rule have to pass through in regular slow-path way.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 1:21 pm
by CyberTod
Is there some way to benefit from fasttrack if I am setting priority from dscp ?
/ip firewall mangle add action=set-priority chain=prerouting new-priority=from-dscp-high-3-bits

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 1:32 pm
by Netsplite
Just tested on the CCR-1016 and it's working as expected, added "action=fastrack" to a few most used NAT rules to test it out and seeing less CPU usage but hard to tell the speed difference yet.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 9:34 pm
by vortex
RB2011:

Before: 220-240Mbps at 100%
After: I saturate my 250Mbps pipe at 50%

Both with downstream traffic only.

I guess I am all set for when 500Mbps is offered (unless the jump would be straight to 1Gbps)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 2:34 pm
by jarda
How to read this picture?
fasttrack.jpg
(all rules are without any conditions)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 3:37 pm
by pateutz
Hi all,


please verify the hardware support, not all the RouterBoards are supported ( for example RB450/RB450G are not supported )

List of devices with FastPath support
RouterBoard Interfaces
RB6xx series ether1,2
RB7xx series all ethernets
RB8xx series ether1,2
RB9xx series all ethernets
RB1000 all ethernets
RB1100 series ether1-10,11
RB2011 series all ethernets and sfp
CCR series routers all ethernets and sfps
All RouterBOARD devices wireless interfaces, if wireless-fp package used
x86 wireless interfaces, if wireless-fp package used

source : http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path

Best Regards,

Daniell

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 5:30 pm
by jarda
Sure. It is rb750 and the fasttrack is indicated to be on.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 7:09 pm
by n1am
What about the CRS series?

Re:

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 7:14 pm
by moutian
Sure. It is rb750 and the fasttrack is indicated to be on.
I have the same problem. According to the firewall filter table, lots of packets and bytes. However, "ip setting" shows 0 packets and 0 bytes for fastTrack (yes, it shows fasttrack active). So is fasttrack working or not?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 11:48 pm
by pateutz
Hi all,

i have verified tonight for Mikrotik CRS109-8G-1S-2HND-IN and Mikrotik CRS 125-24G-1S-2Hnd-in and the feature it's working.

Best Regards,

Daniel

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 10:16 pm
by jarda
Ok. I tried fasttrack in real situation and after few minutes I swithed it off.

First of all, the fasttracking firewall rules are showing nonesence counter values. And finally I have found that bypassed user queues are so much important for me that I cannot sacrifice them.

So, it works, speeds the throughput and spares CPU, but the side costs are too high.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 11:22 am
by normis
Ok. I tried fasttrack in real situation and after few minutes I swithed it off.

First of all, the fasttracking firewall rules are showing nonesence counter values. And finally I have found that bypassed user queues are so much important for me that I cannot sacrifice them.

So, it works, speeds the throughput and spares CPU, but the side costs are too high.
you don't need to fasttrack all, you need to mark specific traffic that you don't need to queue. also why nonsense counters ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 12:20 pm
by darkprocess
Hello

Just a stupid question, i understand the benefits of using Fasttrack. Where can we found a simple explanation on how to implement it with some examples?

Thanks for your help

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 12:41 pm
by normis
First page of this thread has the basic Firewall rules that you need: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php ... 76#p479776

FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:18 pm
by jarda
Well. I queue all traffic according to the user ip addresses. Then there is almost no possibility to use fasttrack. The statistics is nonsense because it uses only hits that were not able to be processed by the fasttracking rule even fulfilled its criteria. The same values show subsequent accepting rule also.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:51 am
by normis
Like others said before, this is not for devices where you queue all traffic. At home - I don't queue myself (why?). I simply want a LAN through NAT, and this gives me ability to have nearly 2x the speed I had before. For ISP this will not be a big benefit, unless they have unlimited VIP type of clients.

Let me give an example. Take the RB951G out of the box, don't alter the default config. Speedtest gives some 250Mbit. I add one Fasttrack rule - speedtest now gives 500Mbit (ISP doesn't give more). Simple.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:18 pm
by mcdebugger
Seems like it's not working on PPTP and GRE interfaces of my RB2011. Do you plan to support fasttrack on GRE/PPTP/etc ?
It's a common practice when PPTP connection to ISP is used.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:31 pm
by Fraction
It seems like FastTrack somehow disturbs my ssh/cifs server connections through IPSec-tunnel..

Ping still works as expected and I can even connect to suitable ports with telnet, but connecting with Putty (ssh) or Windows Explorer (CIFS) just hangs until timeout.. Anyhow, From IP/Firewall/Connection I can see established TCP-connection between client and server in both cases.. SSH to RB works fine, its just connections to servers behind my RB.

After disabling these 3 firewall rules everything works fine again:
0 X chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""
1 X chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""
2 X chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid log=no log-prefix=""

..but if I enable these again, problem comes back immediately (it also kills active ssh connections)..

Is anyone else noticed anything like this?

Not the biggest problem for me, because my RB2011UiAS-2HnD can handle my Internet connection pretty well also without FastTrack, but just a notice..

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 1:10 pm
by macgaiver
It seems like FastTrack somehow disturbs my ssh/cifs server connections through IPSec-tunnel..
Well FastTrack basically skips lots of processing steps, like firewall and queues, maybe it skips something IPSEc related also.
You just need to create more specific rule that excludes all IPsec traffic from FastTrack.

This is the reason it is implemented as firewall action, not an option that is enabled by default. One rule solution is not for your setup.

And Fastpath doesn't go together with IPSec :)

FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:03 pm
by jarda
As long as I have a plenty of cpu power, the fasttrack is not bringing any advantage to me. Only in case the standard processing will be slower than my needs I would maybe start thinking to fasttrack part of the traffic. Now I am fasttracking only the traffic within internal address ranges that doesn't help too much anyway.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 1:24 am
by MTeeker
The idea is to "fasttrack" some specific machine without slowing it's traffic for processing. Let's say you have a network of users, you have firewall and queues for them. But then you have a VIP customer (or your own PC) that you will not filter or slow down, and you want the best available speed for it. This is the situation for fasttrack.
FastTract allows a smoother streaming of a video on my home NAS, across the Net, over open VPN connection. I was not able to do this, prior to FastTract, without heavy breakups.

It's not that I normally watch a video over the vpn connection to home. But as a test of performance, it does 'fast tract'.

(My nominal home bandwidth is: 100mbps down, 2.4mbps up).

One thing though. The firewall rules preceding FastTract, are needed to drop invalid input, and new forward which is not dsn-natted for obvious reason.

On this point, do these rules still work when Bittorents are running?

It's a good feature from MikroTik. From where I sit.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:54 am
by chechito
The idea is to "fasttrack" some specific machine without slowing it's traffic for processing. Let's say you have a network of users, you have firewall and queues for them. But then you have a VIP customer (or your own PC) that you will not filter or slow down, and you want the best available speed for it. This is the situation for fasttrack.
FastTract allows a smoother streaming of a video on my home NAS, across the Net, over open VPN connection. I was not able to do this, prior to FastTract, without heavy breakups.

It's not that I normally watch a video over the vpn connection to home. But as a test of performance, it does 'fast tract'.

(My nominal home bandwidth is: 100mbps down, 2.4mbps up).

One thing though. The firewall rules preceding FastTract, are needed to drop invalid input, and new forward which is not dsn-natted for obvious reason.

On this point, do these rules still work when Bittorents are running?

It's a good feature from MikroTik. From where I sit.
on which miktotik model have you tested?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 9:01 am
by MTeeker

on which miktotik model have you tested?
RB493G

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 9:26 am
by honzam

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 9:53 am
by MTeeker
That's interesting. Hmm.

Video streaming over openvpn connection from my home NAS was definitely much smoother. From G3 connection on mobile phone.

The only change which I am aware of was my redoing of netinstall on RB493G. But this was due to my first misdiagnosis of its faulty power supply.

Two attempts at netinstall pointed to the faulty PSU which failed to reboot my RB493 after the R6.29 upgrade.

Apart from that I cannot explain the smoother streaming.

Cheers.





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Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:28 am
by Chupaka
FastPath and FastTrack are a bit different things, AFAICS

I wonder, is it possible to use FastTrack on the router with ConnectionTracking disabled :) so it just skips processing of Filter, Mangle, etc.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 12:15 pm
by macgaiver
FastPath and FastTrack are a bit different things, AFAICS

I wonder, is it possible to use FastTrack on the router with ConnectionTracking disabled :) so it just skips processing of Filter, Mangle, etc.
Fasttrack have 3 requirements to work:
1) FastPath support for all involved drivers
2) Connection tracking enabled
3) action=fasttrack-connection rule

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 12:21 pm
by macgaiver
While playing with new 6.30rc10 i notice this:

*) improved connection list: added connection packet/byte counters, added separate counters for fasttrack, added current rate display, added flag wheather connection is fasttracked/srcnated/dstnated, removed 2048 connection entry limit;

It looks like there are now much more comprehensive way to observe fasttrack in action:
conntrack_new_look.png
3 things i would like to indicate:
1) flags for entries (especially i love "dying" one :) )
2) from counters of selected connections i can see tat only 6 packets in original direction and 2 packets in Reply direction went to slowpath, rest was fasttracked.
3) it is now much more easy to operate with connection-bytes and see what connections you need to handle

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:25 pm
by nz_monkey
While playing with new 6.30rc10 i notice this:

*) improved connection list: added connection packet/byte counters, added separate counters for fasttrack, added current rate display, added flag wheather connection is fasttracked/srcnated/dstnated, removed 2048 connection entry limit;

mmm this is a great feature. Nice work Mikrotik.

What do orig/repl mean ? I am assuming send/receive... ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:20 pm
by ArunasV
Excellent work guys. I just tested on RB951G and I got significant CPU performance!!!
Thank you!

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:41 pm
by Chupaka
what is faster: router with conntrack disabled, or fasttrack-enabled? :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 3:09 pm
by strods
FastPath (routing with disabled connection tracking) is faster than FastPath with enabled connection tracking handler (which is FastTrack).

You can see description and examples of FastTrack in our latest newsletter (FastPath + Conntrack= FastTrack):
http://download2.mikrotik.com/news/news_65.pdf

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:52 pm
by karadn
On RB951G-2HnD not work for me. version 6.29.1

/ip settings print
ip-forward: yes
send-redirects: yes
accept-source-route: no
accept-redirects: no
secure-redirects: yes
rp-filter: no
tcp-syncookies: no
max-arp-entries: 8192
arp-timeout: 30s
icmp-rate-limit: 10
icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
allow-fast-path: yes
ipv4-fast-path-active: no
ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 0

On fasttrack filter rule number of packets and bytes increase.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:56 pm
by normis
make sure you are not using the MAC address to configure your device (Winbox MAC).
Also post your rule please

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:56 pm
by karadn
I use IP to configure device.

[admin@MikroTik] > /ip firewall filter print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
0 chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection
connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""

1 chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no
log-prefix=""

2 chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid log=no log-prefix=""

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 6:17 pm
by andrewdl
As I understand, is on vrrp intrefaces fasttrack don't works too?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:19 am
by macgaiver
As I understand, is on vrrp interfaces fasttrack don't works too?
Nop it is not supported at the moment, last i know it was in "top of fast-path to-do list" together with VLAN support.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:27 am
by macgaiver
Update from 6.30RC15... New dynamic dummy rule for fasttrack packets just appeared in Firewall forward, mangle prerouting,forward,postrouting.
234.png
WIth this workaround i think it is almost possible to avoid all confusion about missing fastracked packets, if someone unaware of fasttrack starts to configure router.

This rule will appear as soon as fasttrack-connection rule is enabled, and will remain there until the next reboot, even if you delete/disable fasttrack-connection rule. Support states that it is done by design - as connections that are marked for fasttrack might remain active even after fasttrack-connection rule is disabled.

now only thing missing is similar solution for simple queues - dynamic dummy simple queue for fasttracked traffic.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:34 am
by Chupaka
now only thing missing is similar solution for simple queues - dynamic dummy simple queue for fasttracked traffic.
and also similar counter in TrafficFlow: how much traffic you have not billed :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:51 am
by macgaiver
and also similar counter in TrafficFlow: how much traffic you have not billed :)
well... from where i sit fasttrack and trafficflow doesn't have place on the same router, one is mostly for CPE usage, other is mostly for ISP.
I i personally do not think it is MUST HAVE feature

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:39 pm
by nz_monkey
It would be possible to write a fast path Traffic Flow plug in.

Hopefully we will see one. We use Netflow for billing and diagnostics.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:42 am
by normis
Some nice improvements in v6.30rc17 (already in RC section):

*) fasttrack - added dummy firewall rule in filter and mangle tables to show packets/bytes that get processed in fasttrack and bypass firewall;
*) fastpath - vlan interfaces support fastpath;

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:01 pm
by nz_monkey
Some nice improvements in v6.30rc17 (already in RC section):

*) fasttrack - added dummy firewall rule in filter and mangle tables to show packets/bytes that get processed in fasttrack and bypass firewall;
*) fastpath - vlan interfaces support fastpath;
Thanks for all the work on vlan fastpath MikroTik!

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:10 pm
by upower3
*) fasttrack - added dummy firewall rule in filter and mangle tables to show packets/bytes that get processed in fasttrack and bypass firewall;
I do confirm this dummy rules are useful. But yet very frustrating, as when I see some new lines in the same tables it brings some questions kind of "who did it without me?!" :)


May I please ask you for some questions to better understand this feature?

1. Am I right that FastTrack is some technique that router uses to process packets that belongs to specific connection according to connection tracking mechanism that already exists before?

2. When I use
add chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related
I'm in fact somehow "mark" the connection as one that should be processed in that "magic" way?

3. I can do these marking in ip/firewall or in ip/mangle, whatever I like?

4. I should not fasttrack new connections?

5. What if I do fasttrack for all connections (forward, input, output), new, established, related - it won't break the proccessing, right?

6. What if I do the action (fasttrack-connection) in prerouting chain, so all connections be marked before any other processing occurs?

Thank you in advance for answering and explaining!

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:46 pm
by macgaiver
1) Yes, first packets of the connections must go the regular way, so that your firewall and nat configuration can be applied to connection, and only then rest of the packets from that connection can be fasttracked

2) Yes. But this rule is for all connections, you can always make it more narrow, for example fasttrack only connections from local network to DMZ and have deep packet inspection, netflow, queues for all public connections

3) yes

4) i think you can, but it will give you no benefit, as first packets will have to go regular way to create conntrack entry anyway.

5) fasttrack works only for forward traffic, and same answer as 4)

6) do not forget that packet that triggers the fasttrack-connection rule will continue the normal way, only next packet will go fastpath way, so you should be fine.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:00 pm
by onnoossendrijver
I really like the latest beta/rc release! Better speeds than before. Don't know if it is because of the AC improvements or the FastPath/VLAN support..

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:33 pm
by aguntukk
How do i use Fasttrack feature

/ip firewall filter
add chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related
add chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related
add chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid

If i give this simple queues not working....

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:36 pm
by macgaiver
What's new in 6.30rc19 (2015-Jun-12 11:45):

*) fastpath - vlan interfaces support fastpath;
*) fastpath - partial support for bonding interfaces (rx only);
*) fastpath - vrrp interfaces support fastpath;

Number of possible setups with Fasttrack just got bigger. And, yes, also works with Q-in-Q, just tested it

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:40 pm
by macgaiver
How do i use Fasttrack feature

/ip firewall filter
add chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related
add chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related
add chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid

If i give this simple queues not working....
Yes, that is how fasttrack works - you create a firewall rule that allow connections to skip some processing (including simple queues).
If you use simple queues for all your traffic, sorry, you can't use fasttrack.
But if you use simple queues only for specific traffic, you can always create a more specific fasttrack-connection rule.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:42 pm
by normis
aguntukk, queues are for slowing down traffic. fasttrack is for speeding it up. you can't have both at the same time :) at least make a more specific fasttrack rule, if you want only specific traffic to be fast, and other to be queued

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:25 pm
by CyberTod
You can not use fasttrack with queues.

Fasttrack = skip processing of packets
Queues = processing

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:27 pm
by aguntukk
Thanks for Your help about Fasttrack

Null Route

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:29 pm
by aguntukk
How do i give null route in mikrotik??
Any idea?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:06 pm
by patrick7
Wrong thread.

/ip route add dst-address=192.0.2.2 type=blackhole

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:26 pm
by chojrak11
The feature is great, however its user interface is confusing. I think the fast-track rule shouldn't just mark connections, but should automatically work as "Accept", so that the packets don't fall through to the next rule which is in 100% Accept. That's really weird.

I'd expect that only those packets which cannot be fast tracked should fall through to following rules (and ultimately be accepted).

And the dummy rule in 6.30RC only adds to the overall confusion...
2015-06-16_14-21-03.png

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:49 pm
by LuizMeier
The feature is great, however its user interface is confusing. I think the fast-track rule shouldn't just mark connections, but should automatically work as "Accept", so that the packets don't fall through to the next rule which is in 100% Accept. That's really weird.

I'd expect that only those packets which cannot be fast tracked should fall through to following rules (and ultimately be accepted).

And the dummy rule in 6.30RC only adds to the overall confusion...
Same thing here.
2015-06-16_14-21-03.png
 0    ;;; ICMP Permit
      chain=input action=accept protocol=icmp log=no log-prefix="" 

 1    ;;; Accept related input connections
      chain=input action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix="" 

 2    ;;; Forward FastTrack
      chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related log=no 
      log-prefix="" 

 3    ;;; Accept related forward connections
      chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix="" 

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:42 pm
by jarda
I agree. It is confusing. Fasttrack rules should have exactly the same behaviour, feel and look like all other rules.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:54 pm
by Chupaka
seems like people are requesting an ability to do 'action=fasstrack passthrough=no'. MT? :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:55 am
by normis
seems like people are requesting an ability to do 'action=fasstrack passthrough=no'. MT? :)
Can't you simply add a drop rule after it?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:20 am
by CyberTod
I only drop invalid connections in forward chain. I only have fasttrack rule without accept rule after it, because the packets are accepted anyway and it works.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 12:55 pm
by Ansy
It seems like FastPath/FastTrack cannot be switched off in configuration Bridge+Firewall+Queues (no routing) :(
"Use IP Firewall" box is checked ON, "Allow Fast Path" is OFF in Bridge Settings, and either Firewall Filter fasttrack forward rule is DISABLED too.
But -- Bridge Fast Path Packets & Bytes counters are actively increasing, Simple Queues counters are almost empty and not functioning AFAICS, so the Firewall counters and either Torch -- looks like only start packets of every session goes to Firewall.

RB750UP, ROS 6.30rc19 now.
(6.29 and other RC's crashed often and eating CPU by management process -- http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php ... 36#p485836 )
[Ticket#2015060366000431] [Ticket#2015053066000266] [Ticket#2015052966000214]

Who else can test firewalling/queuing BRIDGE?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 2:27 pm
by G2Dolphin
How can I switch off the default dummy fasttrack rule in the filter? What sense in it anyway, we have the same counters in IP-Settings...

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:50 am
by pchott
I see here one example where FastTrack would be very usefull: ! VoIP !!!.

VoIP is usually configured on separate VLAN that has to be prioritized.

Is it possible to use FastTrack for VoIP VLAN? or is that RFE?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 1:32 am
by kobuki
I was anticipating this feature and installed 6.29.1 only to find out that it's not supported on my router at home which is an RB450G. It has been one of the most popular ones and there isn't a night and day difference between this and the 750G which is indeed supported. Their hardware is almost identical. Why can't this be supported? Is it some hardware limitation or just company policy? I had exactly zero problems with the 450G since I've installed it 4-5 years ago. Sad.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:35 pm
by kobuki
I wonder if I ever get an answer...

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:54 pm
by patrick7
Are you really complaining about not getting an answer in a forum within 8 hours?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:42 am
by kobuki
Are you really complaining about not getting an answer in a forum within 8 hours?
Check your clock, please. It was about a day later.

But no. It was merely a rhetorical question, if that helps to satisfy your curiosity (or your feeling of righteousness).

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:11 am
by patrick7
It was on the same day.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:24 am
by omidkosari
Does FastPath work with EOIP or GRE tunnels ? We have many router which they are just a simple bridge between an ethernet and an EOIP tunnel to pass pppoe to remote router .
In that situation fastpath would be very useful .

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:14 am
by jarda
It was on the same day.
depends on your local settings. I see 20hours difference (not being fooled by am/pm...)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:04 pm
by LuizMeier
Just made a test with queue. Mikrotik just ignores the queues at all if FastTrack is active. :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:35 pm
by Chupaka
exactly. no slow processing (queues, firewall) at all. by design :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 3:01 am
by robdeep
I'm experiencing the exact same thing. Same routerboard here.

Any solutions?

It seems like FastTrack somehow disturbs my ssh/cifs server connections through IPSec-tunnel..

Ping still works as expected and I can even connect to suitable ports with telnet, but connecting with Putty (ssh) or Windows Explorer (CIFS) just hangs until timeout.. Anyhow, From IP/Firewall/Connection I can see established TCP-connection between client and server in both cases.. SSH to RB works fine, its just connections to servers behind my RB.

After disabling these 3 firewall rules everything works fine again:
0 X chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""
1 X chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""
2 X chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid log=no log-prefix=""

..but if I enable these again, problem comes back immediately (it also kills active ssh connections)..

Is anyone else noticed anything like this?

Not the biggest problem for me, because my RB2011UiAS-2HnD can handle my Internet connection pretty well also without FastTrack, but just a notice..

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:00 am
by Ansy
Just made a test with queue. Mikrotik just ignores the queues at all if FastTrack is active. :)
I don't use "Allow Fast Path" in "Bridge Settings", but I do "Use IP Firewall" there.

Beside of that, "Bridge Fast Path Packets & Bytes" counters are actively (not Mikro!) ticking now, ROS version 6.29.. 6.30rc19.. 6.30rc22.

I don't order and don't like it :( My production Queuing Bridge just totally broken by this issue... all users fill all link bandwidth without any limits now. DNAT and Firewall don't functioning too.

I really don't want to change Queuing Bridge to Queuing Router due to lack of IP subnets, and I don't want to change my RB750UP based AP-sectors too because I like this simple & smart PoE installation.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:41 am
by CyberTod
Fasttrack will not be active if you don't add the firewall rule for it. And Fastpath can be disabled from IP->Settings and for bridge in Bridge->Settings too. Check also Queue->Interface queues.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:37 am
by Ansy
Fasttrack will not be active if you don't add the firewall rule for it. And Fastpath can be disabled from IP->Settings and for bridge in Bridge->Settings too. Check also Queue->Interface queues.
Well, screenshot is below.
2015-06-26 13-22-51 Скриншот экрана.png
Interface Queues are all changed to wireless-default (i.e. sfq) because of WISP infrastructure after RB750UP.
Why did this config work successfully all other ROS versions before 6.29?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 10:57 am
by omidkosari
FastPath (routing with disabled connection tracking) is faster than FastPath with enabled connection tracking handler (which is FastTrack).

You can see description and examples of FastTrack in our latest newsletter (FastPath + Conntrack= FastTrack):
http://download2.mikrotik.com/news/news_65.pdf
If FastPath is disabled , which one is faster
1- Completely disable connection tracking ?
or
2- Use FastTrack with enabled connection tracking ?

Thanks for clarification

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:27 pm
by macgaiver
Well, screenshot is below.
I think you need to write to support with description and supout.rif file from latest RC.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:29 pm
by macgaiver
If FastPath is disabled , which one is faster
1- Completely disable connection tracking ?
or
2- Use FastTrack with enabled connection tracking ?

Thanks for clarification

Simple FastPath will be faster, cause fasttrack enables the same FastPath in case of conntrack. so it is all packets FastPath vs most packets FastPath.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 2:17 pm
by omidkosari
If FastPath is disabled , which one is faster
1- Completely disable connection tracking ?
or
2- Use FastTrack with enabled connection tracking ?

Thanks for clarification

Simple FastPath will be faster, cause fasttrack enables the same FastPath in case of conntrack. so it is all packets FastPath vs most packets FastPath.
You mean "Simple FastPath = Completely disable connection tracking" ?
So in my question 1 would be faster , right ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:43 am
by macgaiver
You mean "Simple FastPath = Completely disable connection tracking" ?
So in my question 1 would be faster , right ?
Yes and Yes.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:11 pm
by KBV
it's not supported on my router at home which is an RB450G
FastTrack is supported only half router models. So it's normal.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 2:36 pm
by MadEngineer
Curious if anyone with battery/solar powered routers with this function enabled have any power usage data to share

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 5:33 pm
by rado3105
I have one router that has no rules in firewall filter. But limits one network using SQ, but also the traffic except that network goes through router. I am thinking to make rule that will fasttrack all connections except that one network that uses SQ. Is it good idea? Will it lower CPU usage or not?

something like this:
/ip firewall filter> print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 0    chain=forward action=jump jump-target=fastrack 
      dst-address-list=!fasttrack log=no log-prefix="" 

 1    chain=forward action=jump jump-target=fastrack 
      src-address-list=!fasttrack log=no log-prefix="" 

 2    chain=fastrack action=fasttrack-connection log=no log-prefix="" 

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:51 pm
by jarda
How can I switch off the default dummy fasttrack rule in the filter? What sense in it anyway, we have the same counters in IP-Settings...
Vote against dummy rules in firewall: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=98471

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:55 am
by miharoot
Do I understand correctly, that it does not work with l2tp interface?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:14 am
by macgaiver
Do I understand correctly, that it does not work with l2tp interface?
No, currently it is not supported

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:59 am
by shifto
Do I understand correctly, that it does not work with l2tp interface?
No, currently it is not supported
Also doesn't work with PPPoE clients AFAIK. Is this going to be supported in the future? (And just to be bold, any ETA? :) )

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:50 am
by undecided
So I currently use PCC mangle rules, and I use NAT on my WAN interfaces, however I do not use "masquerade" instead I use "src-nat" and specify a range of public IP's to use.

Will fasttrack work on this setup? I have no way to test and I'm reluctant to upgrade and test it on my live environment.

Hoping someone can let me know if it should work with this setup?

tx

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:47 am
by MadEngineer
Why do I have the "special dummy rule" duplicated three times in Mangle?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 11:15 pm
by 105547111
Why do I have the "special dummy rule" duplicated three times in Mangle?
Look closely there's 3 distinct rules...

forward, prerouting and postrouting.

Just gives you a breakdown of total.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:18 am
by MTeeker
From what I can see, the main constraint of Fasttrack is Qos of VoIP queue priorities. Simply because Fasttrack does not enlarge an existing bandwidth pipe, it only removes processing at internal 'checkpoint' to speed up delivery.

From this angle though, the intended working of QoS of VoIP (using mangle marking pre-routing, plus queue tree settings) remains a valid reason. It's bandwidth priority required to ensure QoS of such as VoIP calls.

Using macgaiver's apt metaphor of a club entrance, logistically speaking, there are clearly three queues at the club entrance.

- A special priority entrance for VIP (always available for very important personnel).
- A quick pass-through for regular faces, and
- A queue for unknown faces.

I think the real challenges is to make Fasttrack work only in the 'remaining nominal bandwidth' after allowing for QoS (i.e. VIP entrance) whenever it's needed. This way, a VoIP call does not turns into a conversation of broken words with silence breaks in between. This would definitely result in a better overall performance of suitable MikroTik routerboads. A win-win, using a cliche. I believe Jarda has a very good point here in respect of having more than one queue for Fasttracking.

It broke my initiated VoIP call on the receiver's end when Fatstrack was turned on even though with a connection of 100mbps/down and 2.4mbps/up.

I does sounds like a contradictory issue as it currently stands. But I thought of giving a fresh perspective.
Cheers

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:20 am
by jarda
Just imagine that someone has weak router, fast Internet access and doesn't care about the qos. His router is a bottleneck without fasttrack. When fasttrack is on: whooooo, what a ride!

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:53 am
by efaden
Anyone have any tips for why I would have a fasttrack connection rule in forward, but yet "fasttrack active" is no? I see traffic going to the fasttrack rule. Thoughts?

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:30 am
by jarda
If subsequent accepting rule counts the same like previous fasttracking rule, the fasttrack is not applied. Probably some of the conditions are not met in your case. Check the wiki.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:09 pm
by hatred
Why do I have the "special dummy rule" duplicated three times in Mangle?
Look closely there's 3 distinct rules...

forward, prerouting and postrouting.

Just gives you a breakdown of total.
But why all chains' counters are always equal?
MT-dummy.png

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 2:38 am
by MTeeker
Perhaps it's a trivial thing. But it does not make sense.

When Fasttrack is engaged under 6.30.4, Speedtest.net (by Ookla) does not indicate a better performance that I would expect. In fact, it gives much lower performance than my nominal bandwidth 100mbps/down and 2.4mbps up.

Does anybody have the same experiences?

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 9:24 am
by jarda
My experience is that correctly used fasttrack helps always in common situations.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 9:51 am
by MTeeker
Would you be able to run a Sppedtest (Ookla) on your wired device and comment on it?

Many thanks.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 10:12 pm
by jarda
Actually my devices are configured in the way that there is no need for fasttrack. The devices are able to handle the traffic without it and the cpu is not maxed out. When fasttrack is on, the main effect is lowered cpu usage, nothing more. So there is nothing I can show you on the speedtest.net results. I had recently temporary 3times more bandwidth limit set on some of my places. When I was testing the fasttrack there, I have found that I am maxing out RB2011 around 100Mbits/s but with fasttrack it is able to run the 120Mbits/s with around 20% cpu utilization. Then I used the fasttrack only for torrents to get downloads faster and do not block the router by cpu utilization. As it prevents queues to work, I am not using fasttrack in any other way than for torrents and local subnets communication.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:43 am
by MTeeker
Thanks for the reply.

I have just now been able to isolate a local issue with my ISP which has nothing to do with Fasttrack effects, measured via Speedtest indicator.

Red face. Sorry for barking at the wrong tree.
Cheers

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 4:19 pm
by jarda
Never mind. It is not so easy to find the reason of the problem many times.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:57 pm
by docmarius
Just an observation: If you use fasttrack on a router capable of wirespeed on a PPPoE link, like the RB110AHx2 on a 1Gbps PPPoE, placing a fasttrack rule in the filter table will actually slow it down a tiny amount (in my case 900Mbps vs. 925 Mbps), because of that additional rule adding a small amount of processing while the PPPoE traffic needs to bypass that rule, not being fasttrack-able.
In this case, not using fasttrack is actually faster for WLAN traffic.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:30 am
by MTeeker
@ jarda,

I decided not to use Fast Track for the time being. Much along your reasoning but with less knowledge than you have.

I am thinking about a potential flaw at the conceptual level. Imagine a convoy of delivery trucks arriving at my University gate, using a metaphor. The gatekeeper checks the first few trucks and then allows the rest of the convoy to go through. To speed up traffic of course.

The implied assumption is the rest of the convoy carries the same thing as the first few trucks.

What risk does Fast Track pose if it's not the case? Is it possible for subsequent packets to carry additional something else that the router firewall is not aware of, and therefore stops its delivery.

Like to hear your thought.
Cheer
(edited for clarity)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:25 am
by andriys
I am thinking about a potential flaw at the conceptual level. Imagine a convoy of delivery trucks arriving at my University gate, using a metaphor. The gatekeeper checks the first few trucks and then allows the rest of the convoy to go through. To speed up traffic of course.

The implied assumption is the rest of the convoy carries the same thing as the first few trucks.
That's not a flaw in concept of fasttrack. A typically configured firewall without fasttrack behaves just like that anyways- checks the initial handshake, applies policies, accepts everything else. You need to understand that a firewall is NOT a traffic scanner, i.e. it does not (and should not) behave like antiviruses do. Once connection is established there's very little firewall can check in the following packets.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 11:26 am
by MTeeker
Thanks for that explanation. I got mixed up.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:41 pm
by andriys
It would be nice to have updated Packet Flow diagram with FastTrack blocks added somewhere. It would have made so many things just way easier to understand and diagnose. It took me considerable amount of time, for instance, to understand that outbound inner-tunnel IPsec traffic should be fully exempt from FastTrack processing, otherwise it'll leave the wire unencrypted. Highly counter-intuitive.

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:28 pm
by jarda
Correct. I have a feeling (from email communication with mikrotik staff) that they work on some new way of fasttrack implementation. But as always they don't say anything....

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 9:52 am
by sergejs
We have made separated documentation for FastTrack on the wiki,
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Wiki/Fasttrack
Currently it has initial description and configuration examples. More information is coming.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:58 pm
by Bytezone
Can anybody confirm whether it's supported on x86 .. if not what should i do to use it?
I have v6.33 installed on my computer.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:21 pm
by nz_monkey
No fastpath or fasttrack on x86 for now...

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 4:04 am
by Bytezone
Even though it's existing as a feature on x86 ROS v6.33, really disappointed i see the fasttrack-connection on the action menu and can not use it !! .. thanks nz_monkey I hope mikrotik people do their job for this matter so i can enjoy this great feature like my friends here. :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:27 am
by realdreams
No fastpath or fasttrack on x86 for now...
or ever? Isn't fastpath/fasttrack using hardware specific capabilities? And for x86, why do you even need it?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:32 am
by realdreams
ip/firewall/filter
chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""
chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related log=no log-prefix=""

Only a test in RB750g, no result...
Same on RB750G 6.33.3, fasttrack filter rule counter is ticking but
IPv4 Fasttrack Active		Yes
IPv4 Fasttrack Packets		0
IPv4 Fasttrack Bytes		0 B

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:23 am
by nz_monkey
or ever? Isn't fastpath/fasttrack using hardware specific capabilities? And for x86, why do you even need it?
I can't speak for Mikrotik, but it seems like the natural direction for CHR.

Read this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Pl ... opment_Kit

It is used by Brocade, Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent to do wire speed on x86.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 7:33 pm
by kor3k
fasttrack is indeed a cool feature, but it's current implementation is confusing and misleading. it also breaks the "normal" rule behavior.

when you place a "fasttrack connection" rule in your fw, then packets matched with this rule may or may not be fasttracked. that means, not all matching packets are consumed by this rule, therefore you need an "accept" rule right after the fasttrack rule.

this is not how rules behave. also, you cannot just replace your "accept" rules with "fasttrack", you have to add them.

so to correct this, the "fasttrack connection" action SHOULD utilize fallback to accept:
  • if fasttrack can be applied on a packet, then it is fasttracked.
  • if fasttrack can not be applied on a packet, then it is accepted.
then and only then all matched packets are consumed, so no need for additional accept rule and no more "broken behavior".

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:53 am
by jarda
Interesting concept. As the fasttrack is kind of mangle rule on connection level it should be rather applicable to all types of traffic matching the rule criteria. And anyway there should be also "not match" or "pass" counter on each rule to know what part of load was captured or not matched by each rule. It's obvious that fasttrack is not well cooked enough yet. Mikrotik admitted this to me long time ago. I hope we will see more rationally working fasttrack soon.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 1:47 pm
by macgaiver
fasttrack is indeed a cool feature, but it's current implementation is confusing and misleading. it also breaks the "normal" rule behavior.

when you place a "fasttrack connection" rule in your fw, then packets matched with this rule may or may not be fasttracked. that means, not all matching packets are consumed by this rule, therefore you need an "accept" rule right after the fasttrack rule.

this is not how rules behave. also, you cannot just replace your "accept" rules with "fasttrack", you have to add them.

so to correct this, the "fasttrack connection" action SHOULD utilize fallback to accept:
  • if fasttrack can be applied on a packet, then it is fasttracked.
  • if fasttrack can not be applied on a packet, then it is accepted.
then and only then all matched packets are consumed, so no need for additional accept rule and no more "broken behavior".
1) mark-connection work exactly the same way.

2) if packet was received fragmented (it is received in slow path) and it will never go fastpath, but it can still trigger that rule, also not all packets form connection will be fastpath as you need some of those to refresh conntrack and arp timeouts, so you need accept rules anyway.

3) how will you combine fasttrack if firewall that checks connection-state=new, like you can do now?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:27 pm
by blahblah927
Is there any way to use the fastpath feature with hotspot? my box load is kinda high due to the NAT and queueing

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 3:00 pm
by strods
There is a presentation available where FastPath and FastTrack is explained in detail. It is available here:
http://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/E ... 413105.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bl7V5i ... 0HD40QyLEe

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 10:17 pm
by kabal
On RB750G and RB750UP not worked =( ROS 6.34.3

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 2:36 pm
by NetVicious
Hi!

I read RB4xx don't supports FastTrack. But why Winbox it showing this option on the Firewall action ?

IMHO, Winbox should detect this and the fastrack option should not appear.

Regards,

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 5:25 pm
by Chupaka
I read RB4xx don't supports FastTrack. But why Winbox it showing this option on the Firewall action ?
IMHO, Winbox should detect this and the fastrack option should not appear.
looks like you're talking about FastPath, not FastTrack. FastTrack is supported by RouterOS, not by hardware

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 10:30 am
by Zdenekhb
New ISSUE: Fasttrack causes errors with IPTV HLS. If is used Fasttrack , IPTV does not Work.... in all versions.of RoS vhere is it

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:22 pm
by macgaiver
New ISSUE: Fasttrack causes errors with IPTV HLS. If is used Fasttrack , IPTV does not Work.... in all versions.of RoS vhere is it
What do you mean by "IPTV HLS"? can you be more precise? i have no issues with my IPTV and Fastpath? If you use Fasttrack then this traffic is NATed??
There are not enough information in this statement :)

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:26 pm
by strods
Are you using any of RouterOS functions which are listed here?
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Fasttrack

"Note that not all packets in a connection can be fasttracked, so it is likely to see some packets going through slow path even though connection is marked for fasttrack. This is the reason why fasttrack-connection is usually followed by identical action=accept rule. Fasttracked packets bypass firewall, connection tracking, simple queues, queue tree with parent=global, ip traffic-flow (restriction removed in 6.33), IP accounting, IPSec, hotspot universal client, VRF assignment, so it is up to administrator to make sure fasttrack does not interfere with other configuration."

If you do, then you need to adjust FastTrack rule so it would exclude this specific traffic.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:11 pm
by GARCIADOEGOGERMAN
Good Morning!!!
A few days ago I bought an RB750GR3 for my home.
In my house I have internet connection of 30 megs of downhill and 3 megs of climb.
My query is if it is worth using fasttrack for this speed ???
Fasttrack is only for WAN-LAN or does it also affect LAN-LAN ???
On the other hand, the configuration that comes by default has everything activated or you have to do some particular configuration but ???

Thank you very much already.

Greetings.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 4:55 pm
by amt
New ISSUE: Fasttrack causes errors with IPTV HLS. If is used Fasttrack , IPTV does not Work.... in all versions.of RoS vhere is it
thats what i try to solve, today i was searching ipTV problems in forum cause i also have a problem at iPTV....
what kind of problem do you have with ipTV ? can you share plase ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:19 am
by aditrodostress
fasttrack on rb850gx2 ?

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:38 pm
by Cha0s

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:03 pm
by Modestas
However, both OS CLI and WinBox happily allow to enable Fasttrack on RB850Gx2. Filter rule with action=fasttrack-connection is also OK on RB850Gx2.
I really wonder what technical limitations on RB1xx, RB5xx, RB850 prevent FastPath.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:41 am
by GARCIADOEGOGERMAN
Good Morning!!!
A few days ago I bought an RB750GR3 for my home.
In my house I have internet connection of 30 megs of downhill and 3 megs of climb.
My query is if it is worth using fasttrack for this speed ???
Fasttrack is only for WAN-LAN or does it also affect LAN-LAN ???
On the other hand, the configuration that comes by default has everything activated or you have to do some particular configuration but ???

Thank you very much already.

Greetings.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2017 7:07 pm
by idlemind
Good Morning!!!
A few days ago I bought an RB750GR3 for my home.
In my house I have internet connection of 30 megs of downhill and 3 megs of climb.
My query is if it is worth using fasttrack for this speed ???
Fasttrack is only for WAN-LAN or does it also affect LAN-LAN ???
On the other hand, the configuration that comes by default has everything activated or you have to do some particular configuration but ???

Thank you very much already.

Greetings.
FastTrack will help keep CPU utilization low. It's configured by default so you might as well leave it on. Local connections will only be FastTracked if you are doing inter-VLAN routing on the LAN side. If you have a single flat network on the LAN your traffic will be "switched" at line rate with or without FastTrack.

I use a RB750Gr3 on my LAN and have tested with and without FastTrack and it definitely won't limit you if you turn it off on a 30Mb/3Mb connection as far as accessing the Internet is concerned with a single flat network behind the Internet.

Re: FastTrack - New feature in 6.29

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2017 11:16 pm
by GARCIADOEGOGERMAN
Good Morning!!!
A few days ago I bought an RB750GR3 for my home.
In my house I have internet connection of 30 megs of downhill and 3 megs of climb.
My query is if it is worth using fasttrack for this speed ???
Fasttrack is only for WAN-LAN or does it also affect LAN-LAN ???
On the other hand, the configuration that comes by default has everything activated or you have to do some particular configuration but ???

Thank you very much already.

Greetings.
FastTrack will help keep CPU utilization low. It's configured by default so you might as well leave it on. Local connections will only be FastTracked if you are doing inter-VLAN routing on the LAN side. If you have a single flat network on the LAN your traffic will be "switched" at line rate with or without FastTrack.

I use a RB750Gr3 on my LAN and have tested with and without FastTrack and it definitely won't limit you if you turn it off on a 30Mb/3Mb connection as far as accessing the Internet is concerned with a single flat network behind the Internet.
Thanks for your answer!!! Greetings.