[AusNOG] Ethernet + 4G router recommendations

[Jonathan Thorpe]

Another +1 for MikroTik – they’re quite awesome for the price, performance, capability and reliability. They make a refreshing change from the Cisco 8xx series that they replace and are ideally suited for a small business environment.

I’ve recently set up a few CRS109 and CRS125s doing 4G, firewalling, VPNs (IPSEC and OpenVPN) and QoS for a few personal projects and am amazed at what you can do with them.

There was bit of a learning curve for me (using mainly Juniper in my day job), but there’s loads of documentation and ways of configuring them (CLI, web interface, Windows app). It didn’t take long to pick it up at all.

As noted, the failover (beyond simple gateway/ARP checks) can require some scripting, but as Karl mentioned, there are plenty of examples around (and clearly a few people around here with some knowledge of them).

In my case, I wanted to periodically ping several hosts via each interface and prioritise them based on whether it works or not and then do PBR to distribute certain types of traffic via each interface under normal conditions. This took some time, but I’m very pleased with the results I was able to get out of it.

Kind Regards,
Jonathan

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Joseph Goldman
Sent: Wednesday, 5 November 2014 6:39 AM
To: Karl Auer; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Ethernet + 4G router recommendations

Another +1 for mikrotik option, the small units are very versatile for their price point, I've had very few reliability problems with deploying them as CPE personally.
On 4 November 2014 23:05:16 GMT+11:00, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au<mailto:kauer at biplane.com.au>> wrote:

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 11:53 +0000, Radek Tkaczyk wrote:

 Can anyone recommend a good Ethernet router that can use 4G as backup/failover?

Well, depends on how you define "good" but I've used a MikroTik
RB951-2HnD with a 3G dongle, worked pretty well. Haven't tried a 4G
dongle. Failover needs a wee bit o' scripting, but there are plenty of
helpful examples out there.

 A Cisco 1921 with a EHWIC-4G-LTE-G would be perfect, but at a starting price of around $2k,

The RB951-2HnD will set you back about $110 delivered...

Regards, K.
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