[AusNOG] FS.com for temporary 10G switch?

Fri Oct 22 14:19:52 EST 2021

Thanks all, really appreciate the comments on stability being good now. I know my experiences are from many years ago, and all the feedback (on and off-list) gives me confidence this is a good way to go!

Thanks,
Rhys.

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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FS.com for temporary 10G switch?

+1 on MT CRS3xx for switching.
Running 7 of those in production(various xx versions) using v6 ROS, with jumbo MTU frames  / vlan / esxi 7 workloads

The past year's long term releases have been smooth sailing from my experience.
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FS.com for temporary 10G switch?

All,

As much as I hate to post this kind of reply to the list, since we’ve been ‘outed’ already by others (thank you for your generous comments, I’ll pay you later ; ) I’ll offer just this comment:

RouterOS is very stable lately – has been for a while now, since they moved to a three tier software release structure: “testing, stable, long term” (ordered from least stable to most) – ‘long term’ is essentially a ‘bugfix’ stream which includes only ‘fixed bugs’ from the prior build and so not affected by ‘new features’ that may introduce unknown bugs.

But for just L2 switching including vlan and bonding, 300 series switches can do it all in hardware – so super ‘wire speed’ fast and virtually no chance of software bug : )

(btw – MikroTik is suffering massive components shortage too, so many models are somewhat scarce at the moment ):

Cheers!

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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FS.com for temporary 10G switch?

Thanks guys! Appreciate the quick feedback. I honestly didn’t realise Mikrotik did switches, but it sounds like this is a more popular option, and probably the route I’d go with.

I don’t think I’ll end up using any L3 features honestly, but would RouterOS instead of SwOS be considered the more established path, and more stable?

It’s been a long time since I’ve used Mikrotik and I’ve known the routers at least to have some crash bugs/stability issues in the past? (Though that may have been due to a particular feature mix – I’m hoping just VLANs would be rock solid).

Thanks,

Rhys.

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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FS.com for temporary 10G switch?

Ubiquiti is having some pretty intense stock issues. If you truly only need for a short period FS could be okay but honestly would be toward the bottom of the list, with a few alternatives doing much better and being easier to obtain - such as the Mikrotiks.

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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FS.com for temporary 10G switch?

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While I cannot comment on fs.com<http://fs.com>, this could be another option. In stock now and cheap.

 https://store.duxtel.com/crs326_24s_2q_rm

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, 9:04 pm Rhys Hanrahan, <rhys at nexusone.com.au<mailto:rhys at nexusone.com.au>> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I am considering using FS.com for a temporary 10G switch as they seem cheap and I should be able to get my hands on it in a week or two. Does anyone have any experience with FS switches? Or any other recommendations?

This isn’t something I wanted to resort to but timing has meant I need something cheap that can act as a largely dumb switch with 8 or so 1/10G SFP+ ports, till I can sort out the Juniper QFX boxes I am intending to get. All I need it for is the ports, and some basic VLAN tagging and trunking. And I just need it to not fail for a couple of months :-) Thanks!

I am considering:

•         https://www.fs.com/au/products/122280.html

•         https://www.fs.com/au/products/122281.html

•         https://www.fs.com/au/products/108710.html

Also considering a Ubuiquiti ES‑16‑XG however an admittedly brief search suggests this would be hard to find in stock anywhere.

Appreciate any suggestions/feedback. Thanks!

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