Router (cpu usage(single port vs multiport))

Soogs · 22 Nov 2021 at 18:58

Hi all
I have a Ubiquity ERX
Is performance impacted by the number of switch ports I use on the ERX?
would I be better off connected to a switch and then spurring off from there or just connecting each switch to the ERX?

Soogs · 23 Nov 2021 at 09:10

so in addition to running of a single port, I want to take that port out of the software switch
got it! thanks!

Soogs · 23 Nov 2021 at 09:16

its all good i can sort the config out

Soogs · 24 Nov 2021 at 21:49

WJA96 said:
It doesn’t have switched ports, it has bridged routed ports so if you use it as a switch there is massive CPU overhead and it runs slowly. The extra ports are to have physically separate networks with the ER-X routing between them.

I've disabled vlan aware and set an IP up for eth4 and only have that connected (and eth0 for wan)
that's the correct thing to do right?