Hi,

I have a CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS that I started testing. However, I didn't realize when I bough it but it seems there are no features supported directly in the hardware switching on this device. The Mikrotik documentation for switch chips reports nothing is available on the ASIC and apparently all is done on the CPU. Is that correct?

Report showing features available says (under 98PX1012 chip):
Port switching: No
Port Mirroring: No
TX limit: No
RX limit: No
Host table: No
Vlan table: No
Rule table: No

From:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... p+Features

I'm looking for a 10G switch that can do VLAN functions (pull off provider tag, change incoming tags when necessary) at wire speed. If this is not a good model, what would be the best model to accomplish this that has 8 or more 10G ports? What switch chip is in CRS326-24S+2Q+RM?

Thank you.

yes

block diagram especify that CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS includes following chip:
https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/CCR20 ... 200459.png
passive intelligent port extender
PIPE
98PX1012

Switch Chip Features manual
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... p+Features
specify no hardware features for 98PX1012

Bridge Hardware Offloading manual
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... Offloading
98PX1012 is not even mentioned

L3 Hardware offloading manual
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... Offloading
98PX1012 is not even mentioned

an explanation about port extender
https://packetpushers.net/marvells-pipe ... pointless/

basically all traffic between interfaces must go through the cpu/soc

I dont see a big problem with this because the previous device this router try to replace (ccr1016-12s-1s+) does not have any hardware acceleration

in fact except for the infamous ccr1009-8g series no CCR10xx had any hardware acceleration using switching chip o any other asic

CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS was the first ccr2xxx but i think is a niche product fitted to replace (ccr1016-12s-1s+) because of that does not share the newer models tendency to integrate switch asics


if you need a switch at 10g i suggest you CRS317-1G-16S+RM, very well tested on many scenarios and good support of hardware accelerated features
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... res-Models
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... 4000Series