[AusNOG] Looks like a total beast but would you dare run your core network on it?

[Andrew Cox]

>>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.

This is the most important answer to any question people ask about why/why
not use MikroTik.

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.
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!

- Andrew

On 24 August 2015 at 15:00, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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)
>
> 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.
>
> ROSv7 is meant to fix a lot of this but still in alpha stage, no public
> betas even heard of yet.
>
>
> On 24/08/15 14:48, James Mcintosh wrote:
>
> http://routerboard.com/CCR1072-1G-8Splus
>
> With equivalent gear from Cisco costing 10x or more might it be worth
> taking a chance?
>
> If not what else similar is this alternative. I don't mind paying a
> premium for quality but 10x is a bit ridiculous...
>
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