+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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From: AusNOG <[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Everest 
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Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 12:02:44 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rhys Hanrahan
Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:01 PM
To: Jeremy Chequer <[email protected]>; Evan Dent 
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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.



From: AusNOG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy 
Chequer
Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2021 9:48 PM
To: Evan Dent <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
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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While I cannot comment on fs.com<http://fs.com>, this could be another option. 
In stock now and cheap.



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On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, 9:04 pm Rhys Hanrahan, 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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.htmlhttps://www.fs.com/au/products/122281.htmlhttps://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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