<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><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><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><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><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><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">- Andrew</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 August 2015 at 15:00, Joseph Goldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@apcs.com.au" target="_blank">joe@apcs.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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>
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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>
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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.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 24/08/15 14:48, James Mcintosh
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://routerboard.com/CCR1072-1G-8Splus" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://routerboard.com/CCR1072-1G-8Splus</a><br>
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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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