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I upgraded from an ER-X to an ER-4 because the X can’t do full 1000 Mbit with PPPoE fiber without hardware offload. With hardware offload turned on there’s a bu
by 0xEFF 7y ago
I upgraded from an ER-X to an ER-4 because the X can’t do full 1000 Mbit with PPPoE fiber without hardware offload. With hardware offload turned on there’s a bug in the hardware that causes some sites, most notably Netflix, to not route at all.
The ER-4 has been great with the Cavium hardware. No hardware offload issues like this.
Edit: The ER-X tops out around 500 Mbit with hardware offload turned off.
- whalesalad 7y agoLove my ER-4 and all its offloading capabilities. I just wish it had a switch chip so you could bridge ports without a performance penalty.
- msh 7y agoHuh. I have a er-x with hardware offloading turned on. I have noticed no issues with netflix. I get about 900 megabit on my gigabit fiber.
- quaa55 7y agowhile i don’t use it it should be possible for ppoe with hw offloading, so i don’t get it either. maybe that’s disabled on the slow one... https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006567467-EdgeRouter-Hardware-Offloading https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006567467-EdgeRou... but i’d assume it should handle fast rates like this if hw offloading was on.
- bisby 7y agoI had an ER Lite, and hardware offload was re-validating packets. Things would come in as error, and come out the other side still invalid, but validated. And at the time my ISP was sending me a lot of uncorrectable errors. So a lot of services would refuse to run with hardware offload on, because the errors weren't being handled. (with it off, the errors were identified as errors and handled. slow, but accurate). Then the pole outside my house got hit by lightning and fried the thing, and I replaced it with something from mikrotik.