Hi Damien, I can't comment on availability of these units, but wanted to point out that the move from "master port" to bridges doesn't necessarily mean you lose the switch chip functionality. Refer here for more info: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Bridge#Bridge_Hardware_Offlo... According to the table, the CRS3xx series has full hardware offload features within a bridge. Regards, Philip Loenneker | Network Engineer | TasmaNet -----Original Message----- From: Public <public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au> On Behalf Of Damien Gardner Jnr Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2019 6:57 AM To: MikroTik Australia Public List <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: [MT-AU Public] Does anyone HAVE a MikroTik CRS305-1G-4S+IN yet?? So I'm currently chasing a CRS305-1G-4S+IN - it would be PERFECT for a fileserver upgrade I'm doing for my linux ISO storage server. They look to have been out a couple of years, but had some pretty serious packet forwarding issues up until a month ago, so probably weren't overly popular. Weird thing is, I spent about 3 hours last night hitting up every 'Tik reseller in the world, and they ALL have 0 stock, and expected arrival times between around the 8th and 20th of April. Does anyone actually HAVE one of these mystical beasts? (And interested in parting with it perhaps?) Anyone know why they don't seem to be available? I was otherwise looking at the CRS328's, but at that price point a single cpu core seems stupendously underpowered with the RouterOS changes recently doing away with the switch chip settings and moving everything to bridges... :\ Thanks, DG -- Damien Gardner Jnr VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust rendrag@rendrag.net - http://www.rendrag.net/ -- We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au