Not that many 100G ports in MX960 .. if you had MPC7 (which are just shipping I 
believe) then you could get 4X100G in each slot … most folks are still 
deploying MPC5 or MPC4 with 2x100G per card … the MPC4 is priced much better 
for 100G but slightly oversubscribed vs MPC5.  When oversubscribed the two 100G 
ports are limited to 180Gb/s so it’s only very slight.

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 10:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

To be fair, I can put something like 128x100Gbps full rate interfaces in an 
mx960, but I just can't afford a bucket big enough to hold all of the money  
I'd need to throw at juniper to afford the parts :)

On Jan 15, 2016 9:02 AM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

That was half of the reason you went with Mikrotik, ImageStream, etc. back in 
the day was that the Ciscos just flat out couldn't do what they said they 
could. Obviously, cost was the other half. Jeff can speak much better to it 
than I can, but IIRC, Imagestream's big thing was that these various popular 
Cisco models just couldn't live up to expectations and not only did the 
Imagestream outperform them, but cost less as well.

Josh Reynolds just pointed out where this is still true today. Most of my 
exposure to newer, bigger gear is in basic switching for the IX and not in 
routing, so I'm not as familiar with where they've gone. It doesn't surprise me 
that it's relatively easy to not get line rate routing.

Just because it's Juniper, Cisco, etc. doesn't mean it's nickle plated ivory.



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From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 8:58:47 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

You’re saying the Juniper/Cisco/Brocades of the world traditionally did not 
meet their advertised throughputs?  I thought they were pretty good about that. 
 Can you clarify?

 

 

From: Mike Hammett <mailto:[email protected]>  

Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 8:30 AM

To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

The complaints with Mikrotik are rarely about performance, though. They're 
about bugs, lack of desired features, being ignored in general. If performance 
(non-BGP on CCRs) is the complaint, you simply bought the wrong box and that 
isn't Mikrotik's fault. I don't think anyone buys a CCR and then is upset when 
it can't do linerate 100G...  because it was never billed as something that can 
do that.

Traditionally the big vendors more or less couldn't do what they advertised. 
Recently, they've been much better in that regard.

Obviously from an RB750 to an MX960 there is a wide difference in ports, 
performance and price, but how much of that price difference is for the added 
capability and how much is the big guy tax?

There's an awful lot of sunshine being blown up the backsides of people that 
think that there's a staggering difference in the attitudes of big telco 
vendors and WISP vendors.



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From: "Erich Kaiser" <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 8:19:45 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

I agree there is a huge price difference between a Mikrotik and a 
Juniper/Cisco/Brocade router, but you also need to look at the facts.  Those 
routers are made to support a Full  routed 10Gbps/40Gbps/100Gbps of throughput 
per port.  With Mikrotik it is a MAYBE it will if I don't do this or do that.. 
Obviously there are many models out there, but if you look at the true carrier 
grade router lines, it is a full routed port. 

 

I think each one has its place.  

 

Just my opinion..


 

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On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

The #1 thing I learned at NANOG was that the big vendors are just as full of 
shit as the little vendors. Cisco, Juniper, AlcaLu, etc. are all just as likely 
to ignore problems and create bugs as Mikrotik, Ubiquiti, etc.

When sitting at a table at about 1 AM one night with a head engineer with one 
international operator and one national operator I said something to the effect 
of, "I've just largely been listening to you guys comparing notes on different 
products and issues you've had. I use Mikrotik routers in my network and people 
often say they are junk and that Cisco, Juniper, etc. are the way to go. Those 
vendors are exactly who you guys use and yet here you are with the same type of 
complaints as we have with our vendors." The one at the international vendor 
chimed in, "and we pay 10x more for that right."

Don't lose sight of that.

For example, Cisco is known for having Ethernet chipset incompatibility 
issues....  which is exactly what this sub-topic has been about.


To think otherwise is simply blind arrogance.



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From: "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 10:49:12 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

This is sort of an illustration of why I am still very wary of Mikrotik for 
routers. 

There's a myriad of Cisco routers available with 12 to 20 SFP-based GbE 
interfacess (used/refurb) that are just as capable, if somewhat bigger and 
hotter, that run very stable versions of IOS. It's totally unacceptable for 
Cisco to break basic functionality for $HUGE_ISP and $HUGE_ENTERPRISE_CUSTOMER 
, which are usually using the same IOS trains I use for service provider 
functions. 

Mikrotik OS software support is pretty much "hey go over to this forum and hope 
somebody answers your question", if something is broken you are just supposed 
to wait for a new version release in a month or two. If something is 
fundamentally broken in a version of IOS used by a mature (6+ year old) Cisco 
platform it's almost certain that somebody much bigger and more important than 
yourself has already run into the issue, escalated it with Cisco, and a new 
build fixing the bug is available.

 

If the space and power are available I would much rather have a 6503E with dual 
supervisor than a CCR....

 

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Rory Conaway <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

This just gets even better.  Worked 24 hours, then breaks again.  Up to Level 4 
tech support.

 

Rory

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf 
Of Rory Conaway
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 7:56 AM


To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

We are taking it to the Mikrotik forum.  This makes no sense since we have 12 
of the already running with no issues.

 

Rory

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Waldrop
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 7:54 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

I’m not terribly happy with ROS since 6.29.

 

Maybe it’s just still not 100% yet.

 

 

 

From: Rory Conaway <mailto:[email protected]>  

Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 8:36 PM

To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

Replaced the Mikrotik routers with an Airrouter, it works.  Replaced with an 
Edgerouter, still works.  This goes under the category of WTF.

 

Rory

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 9:13 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

We tried 3 Mikrotik routers, 2 cable modems, and two radios from two different 
manufacturers.

 

Rory

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Waldrop
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 8:52 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

MTU?

Last time I had that problem was an inconsistent Ethernet connection. It wasn’t 
showing errors, but UDP was dropping packets. TCP retransmitted.

UDP was screwy, but TCP was downloading at the limit of the wireless feed.

 

 

 

 

 

From: Rory Conaway <mailto:[email protected]>  

Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 9:47 PM

To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

Nailed the problem down to the Mikrotik router having a problem with DNS 
caching whether it’s Cox or Google.  Not sure where to go from there since the 
other 12 don’t have a problem.

 

Rory

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 4:44 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

We had raons bit no dangling cables.  Level 3 says no errors to the modem and 
we had a tech out already.  We are changing the 2011 to a 450 just to confirm 
before we eacalate further.

 

 

 

Rory Conaway 

Triad Wireless

 

Typed on my phone with one finger so please excuse typos and abbreviations.

 

 

-------- Original message --------

From: That One Guy /sarcasm <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > 

Date: 1/11/2016 10:38 AM (GMT-07:00) 

To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download 

 

If it just started and youre in an area hit by storms, some of the neighbors, 
mostly the empty houses with no tenants at this point, cable was busted down by 
tree limbs and is dangling terminated byt the mud now

 

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Glen Waldrop <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Likely an RF issue on the cable side.

I see this sort of thing with the company I consult for. They’ll have me going 
through the router, trying to shut down the “virus” or peer to peer when it is 
thousands and thousands of retransmits and broken packets.

 

Just like our wireless it can have good quality until loaded, then watch the 
quality drop to nearly nothing and loose connection.

 

 

 

From: Rory Conaway <mailto:[email protected]>  

Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 8:25 PM

To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

The Netgear router has nothing to do with it, I was just using their website as 
an example of downloading a file.  It’s computer, 2011, cable modem, the world. 
 I just can’t download anything from any sites.  What’s weird is they just drop.

 

Rory

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf 
Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 5:12 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

You mention Netgear, is this a Netgear router?  They used to have a problem 
with downloads stalling, but that was quite a few years ago.  The fix was to 
disable SPI Firewall.

 

 

From: Rory Conaway <mailto:[email protected]>  

Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 6:06 PM

To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  

Subject: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

 

We have a cable circuit that can do everything except download.  There is a 
Mikrotik router between the computer and the cable modem.  Haven’t tested 
taking the router out yet but we have tried 2 routers, same results.  
Basically, downloads either don’t start or start and then just crash.  Game 
machines can’t update, even downloading a 20MB file from netgear fails.  
Everything else seems to work.  Any ideas would be helpful.

 

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