[AusNOG] Looks like a total beast but would you dare run your core network on it?

[Joseph Goldman]

Mikrotik's have been discussed for a while - plenty are using at the 
edge, some are using at the core. I personally use CCR1036-8G-2Splus at 
my core, which use the same CPU architecture as the 1072 just less 
cores, and different interface options.

I haven't had much issue with them, but I also pick and choose my 
software releases, and don't configure new (or unused) features on 
production to avoid bugs.

I run 2 with as much active-active and failover redundancy as I can, and 
the cost of the 2 ($3k~) still far cheaper than a couple of Cisco 
routers for my networks ~500mbit / 200kpps throughput. (1 router is 
currently doing most of that work sitting at 10-15% CPU with 
conntracking + firewall mangle rules + about 10 simple queues)

The biggest problem is multi-threaded use for some of the important 
processes in them, BGP being the main one, and single TCP stream being 
the other. They each seem to be limited to a single core at a time so 
importing full tables and updates/withdraws can take a bit to propagate 
in the route table. TCP single stream only seems to be able to get to 
1gbps, again seems to be a single core restriction.

ROSv7 is meant to fix a lot of this but still in alpha stage, no public 
betas even heard of yet.

On 24/08/15 14:48, James Mcintosh wrote:
> http://routerboard.com/CCR1072-1G-8Splus
>
> With equivalent gear from Cisco costing 10x or more might it be worth 
> taking a chance?
>
> If not what else similar is this alternative. I don't mind paying a 
> premium for quality but 10x is a bit ridiculous...
>
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