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Re:Review: A Dive into MikroTik's Weird SmartNIC (CCR2004-1G... by jpc0 on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:48PM (#38501907)
Almost guarantee that they aren't doing 25GBPS on the arm chip but on the dedicated ASIC.

I know for most of the Mikrotik platforms what gets offloaded to the ASIC and what gets handled by the CPU is a big deal in performance tuning and selecting the correct product for your use case.

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Re:Review: A Dive into MikroTik's Weird SmartNIC (CCR2004-1G... by potatopatch on Saturday December 02, 2023 @06:10PM (#38503151)
I also think they only achieve about 15GBPS on their backplanes of their routers with SFP28, enough to show a benefit over SFP+ but not really full speed.
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