alt Hacker NewsCRS is the switch product line and you would not believe how many professional network engineers do exactly as you have suggested and installed a CRS and asked why it locks up when routing.
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walrus01 • yesterday at 1:43 AM
I really would question any "professional" network engineer that can't tell the difference between a switch and a router...
https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in
Each of the mikrotik switches even comes with a block diagram linked on its product page, showing for instance a single 1.3 Gbps between its L2 switch chip and its CPU.
https://cdn.mikrotik.com/web-assets/product_files/CRS305-1G-...
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CRS are L3 switches; they are supposed to route and run dynamic routing protocols and do ECMP and all the good stuff so long as you dont configure features like nat and firewall that require the cpu and cant be offloaded.
The one thing that it frustratingly does not support that I wish it did is stateless bgp with ipv4 prefixes. It cant offload an ipv4 packet with an ipv6 next hop.