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 <[email protected]> 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.
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On Behalf Of Greg
Sent: Friday, 22 October 2021 1:11 PM
To: Mike Everest <[email protected]>; [email protected]
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.
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Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 12:02:44 PM
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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!
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On Behalf Of Rhys Hanrahan
Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:01 PM
To: Jeremy Chequer <[email protected]>; Evan Dent
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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.
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Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2021 9:48 PM
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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, 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, <[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.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!
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