im seeing a lot of "my router" and "my computer" threads so its probably worth it to say this isnt for your home network. Mikrotik is targeting larger customers with a product that handles offloading to the ASIC's on the board, which is far more performant and scalable than COTS ethernet cards or the onboard gigabit.
the reason you would slap a router card in your rackmount server is because its an IOMMU passthrough to a k8s service load balancer or straight up just openstack and the push toward hyperconvergence. the switch is already virtual inside the kvm on openvswitch (has been for a decade now), but the router is still hardware and this product aims to solve that problem.
the reason you would slap a router card in your rackmount server is because its an IOMMU passthrough to a k8s service load balancer or straight up just openstack and the push toward hyperconvergence. the switch is already virtual inside the kvm on openvswitch (has been for a decade now), but the router is still hardware and this product aims to solve that problem.