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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>
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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.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/08/15 14:48, James Mcintosh
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440391469206_2481">With equivalent gear
from Cisco costing 10x or more might it be worth taking a
chance?</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440391469206_2481" 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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