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It can also be frustrating as bugfixes were released on new versions
so in some cases you were stuck either living with a bug or
upgrading to an unknown release.<br>
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Luckily they have been listening a lot to the community of late and
have started a bugfix/current/releasecandidate option in upgrading
so you dont have to upgrade fully to get the critical bug fixes.<br>
<br>
It really sounds like they are getting a lot of their processes
perfected and hopefuly ROSv7 should bring a lot more trust &
stability to the whole platform.<br>
<br>
It would be good also if they released support contracts with a
comparable TAC with engineers that can delve deep under the software
and give real answers, they refer off to certified consultants still
at the moment and the big trouble with that is its easy to know as
much as the consultants if you follow the forums closely with the
various bug reports (and they'll be forced to refer you back to
mikrotiks free email support if it truly is a bug).<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/08/15 15:59, Andrew Cox wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">>><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">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. </span>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">This is the most
important answer to any question people ask about why/why
not use MikroTik.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">There is no
MikroTik equivalent to a TAC phone number you can call to
help you fix your problems, so as long as you test out the
features you're need in house before rolling out a new
version you're going to have a great time.<br>
If you find a new cool feature that you want to roll out on
your BGP sessions, or you see they've improved fastpath and
you have a router that could benefit, don't roll it out
there.. test it on your home router for a few weeks first
like you should be doing with any other vendor!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Andrew</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 August 2015 at 15:00, Joseph
Goldman <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:joe@apcs.com.au" target="_blank">joe@apcs.com.au</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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)<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
ROSv7 is meant to fix a lot of this but still in alpha
stage, no public betas even heard of yet.
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<div>On 24/08/15 14:48, James Mcintosh wrote:<br>
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href="http://routerboard.com/CCR1072-1G-8Splus"
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<div>With equivalent gear from Cisco costing 10x
or more might it be worth taking a chance?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">If not what else similar is this
alternative. I don't mind paying a premium for
quality but 10x is a bit ridiculous...</div>
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