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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">VMXNet 3 is supported as of 6.31 (14<sup>th</sup> Aug Release)<br>
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http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=99531<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Matthew Keen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Senior Network Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alex Samad - Yieldbroker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 24 August 2015 2:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Looks like a total beast but would you dare run your core network on it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Got 6 of the
</span><span lang="EN-AU">CCR1036-8G-2Splus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Same points as below<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Limit to 1Gb/s tcp stream, but with multistreams or udp I have pushed up to 9.8Gbs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">BFD issue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I like them, I would like for them to make the RouterOS VM;s vmware aware and use the vmxnet3 nics, then I could be really happy with Mikrotek.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> AusNOG [<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joseph Goldman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 24 August 2015 3:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Looks like a total beast but would you dare run your core network on it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-AU">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>
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ROSv7 is meant to fix a lot of this but still in alpha stage, no public betas even heard of yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">On 24/08/15 14:48, James Mcintosh wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">With equivalent gear from Cisco costing 10x or more might it be worth taking a chance?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">If not what else similar is this alternative. I don't mind paying a premium for quality but 10x is a bit ridiculous...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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