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

Fri Oct 22 14:23:39 EST 2021

For what it's worth, I wouldn't rely 100% on their most stable tier. The 
way releases are published without always being staged to LTS isn't proper.

https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=179260

That's about the current long-term dot release.

For the most part though, it is fairly safe.

Cheers,

Luke Thompson
Operations Manager
On 22 October 2021 2:20:32 pm Rhys Hanrahan <rhys at nexusone.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
>
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net]
> On Behalf Of Greg
> Sent: Friday, 22 October 2021 1:11 PM
> To: Mike Everest <mike at duxtel.com>; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> 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.
>
> From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Mike Everest 
> <mike at duxtel.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 12:02:44 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> 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!
>
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net]
> On Behalf Of Rhys Hanrahan
> Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:01 PM
> To: Jeremy Chequer <jeremy at resolvergroup.com.au>; Evan Dent 
> <evan at evandent.com>; <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> 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.
>
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net]
> On Behalf Of Jeremy Chequer
> Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2021 9:48 PM
> To: Evan Dent <evan at evandent.com>; <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
> <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> 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.
>
> Get Outlook for Android
>
> From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Evan Dent 
> <evan at evandent.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 8:41:33 PM
> To: <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FS.com for temporary 10G switch?
>
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>
> While I cannot comment on 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> 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!
>
> Rhys Hanrahan | Chief Information Officer
> e: rhys at nexusone.com.au
>
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