Hello everyone,

i know this question is very noob, but this doubt is in my head since years ago, so here it is:
in devices with several switch chips, is any difference in where to connect the client devices?:

Lets say I have a RB3011 and 2 WAN or more, is there any difference between connecting both WANs in chip1 ( WAN1 to ether1, WAN2 to ether2) and all LAN devices in chip2 (from ether6 to ether10), vs wan1 in ether1 and wan2 in ether6

Maybe mikrotik has recommendations about this kind of situation. And connecting one way has better performance over another, or maybe there is no difference at all....

REgards

Look at block diagram. For routed traffic everything has to pass CPU-switch interconnect(s). Switched traffic will be entirely handled by switch chip if both source and target ports are handled by same switch chip. Otherwise it has to pass CPU-switch interconnect(s). Etc.

So best layout very much depends on traffic patterns.