[106914] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RouterOS performance?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Aug 17 20:16:47 2008
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:16:31 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
In-Reply-To: <1219016208.6853.716.camel@petrie.sacredspiral.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
William Pitcock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're looking at using Mikrotik's RouterOS for some some sort of
> software routing solution as part of our network in combination with
> supervised layer3 switching doing most likely some sort of limited BGP.
>
> Does anyone else here run it? Is it any good? Is it better than e.g.
> vyatta?
vyatta has some issues, but it's ok for a router optimizied linux distro...
> If RouterOS and Vyatta both suck, is there any decent software routing
> solution? Our network is small (4 /24s) and we only need to push roughly
> 1-2gbit at the moment.
>
> Experiences with both would be appreciated. Thanks!
haven't used routeros in a while but at the time it was inoffensive,
it's not derived from a general purpose system so it's not something you
bolt additional bits on if you need them.
I actually use freebsd as a router on soekris, but I do need a general
purpose os on the system as well.
> William
>
>
