[106467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Smith)
Tue Jul 29 11:28:47 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:28:41 -0500
From: "David E. Smith" <dave@mvn.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <488E102B.4050607@trelane.net>
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Andrew D Kirch wrote:
>> Anyone have experience with RouterOS (http://www.mikrotik.com/)?
>> Created mostly to run on these guys I think
>> (http://www.routerboard.com/comparison.html) which generally don't
>> get above 200k pps on the higher models.. But will RouterOS run on
>> bigger boxen?
> Yes I do, and I'm still in therapy. I was pushing 30mbit, and I can't
> remember how many PPS through one, and it crashed about once a month
> requiring onsite intervention (usually at midnight). This was running
> on a Compaq Deskpro I think. It doesn't have much support for good
> network cards. I suspect the Realtek's were behind the crashes.
The Realteks were almost certainly to blame. Just like any other
"server," good hardware is well worth it. RouterOS 2.9 and 3.x support
Intel's gigabit server NICs, which work quite well.
www.mikrotikrouter.com sells a few nice purpose-built rackmount
appliances for this sort of thing. (Just a happy customer, don't work
there or anything.)
If you have the budget, and need the single-purpose horsepower, you'll
usually be happier with Cisco or Juniper or someone that makes dedicated
routing kit. If money's tight, or you need one box to do several
network-related jobs for whatever reason, Mikrotik's software is another
useful tool to have.
David Smith
MVN.net
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