Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
messing with this it looks like I can get it to a pretty restricted view. I just mainly want to not lose remote access to the device or have them doing something stupid like easily changing the mac, if they mess up anything else we just will load in a default configuration file. the guys who will poke around were going to poke around anyway, they usually have their own router On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Lewis Bergman lewis.berg...@gmail.com wrote: I think your issue will be the sledgehammer like permissions in the groups. They are pretty wide ranging. You can prohibit winbox, but for things like filter rules and just about anything they would require write privileges. Write is write without the ability to prevent someone from writing all kinds of things you would rather they not. On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:35 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Can I use skins to give customers access in a limited capacity, create a user account called customer or whatever and a customer group that has limited access like no winbox, etc. Let them manage their wireless, internal subnets, port forwards, whatever? What I saw glancing at the metarouter thing seems like its a bigger deal than I wanted to get into, but if I could create a generic skin for the customer login to load in each one, that would be slick On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org wrote: How would you rate the boxes handling traffic and uptime in general? Just curious… Thanks, Paul *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul McCall *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Steve…. Do you trust me? Mikrotik all the way, just DO IT! … routerboard.com has all the models. slicker than owl-snot on linoleum floor JOne of the best things we ever did for our network *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
I think your issue will be the sledgehammer like permissions in the groups. They are pretty wide ranging. You can prohibit winbox, but for things like filter rules and just about anything they would require write privileges. Write is write without the ability to prevent someone from writing all kinds of things you would rather they not. On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:35 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Can I use skins to give customers access in a limited capacity, create a user account called customer or whatever and a customer group that has limited access like no winbox, etc. Let them manage their wireless, internal subnets, port forwards, whatever? What I saw glancing at the metarouter thing seems like its a bigger deal than I wanted to get into, but if I could create a generic skin for the customer login to load in each one, that would be slick On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org wrote: How would you rate the boxes handling traffic and uptime in general? Just curious… Thanks, Paul *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul McCall *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Steve…. Do you trust me? Mikrotik all the way, just DO IT! … routerboard.com has all the models. slicker than owl-snot on linoleum floor JOne of the best things we ever did for our network *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
I believe that is the entire intention of skins. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:35 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Can I use skins to give customers access in a limited capacity, create a user account called customer or whatever and a customer group that has limited access like no winbox, etc. Let them manage their wireless, internal subnets, port forwards, whatever? What I saw glancing at the metarouter thing seems like its a bigger deal than I wanted to get into, but if I could create a generic skin for the customer login to load in each one, that would be slick On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org wrote: How would you rate the boxes handling traffic and uptime in general? Just curious… Thanks, Paul *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul McCall *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Steve…. Do you trust me? Mikrotik all the way, just DO IT! … routerboard.com has all the models. slicker than owl-snot on linoleum floor JOne of the best things we ever did for our network *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Can I use skins to give customers access in a limited capacity, create a user account called customer or whatever and a customer group that has limited access like no winbox, etc. Let them manage their wireless, internal subnets, port forwards, whatever? What I saw glancing at the metarouter thing seems like its a bigger deal than I wanted to get into, but if I could create a generic skin for the customer login to load in each one, that would be slick On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org wrote: How would you rate the boxes handling traffic and uptime in general? Just curious… Thanks, Paul *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul McCall *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Steve…. Do you trust me? Mikrotik all the way, just DO IT! … routerboard.com has all the models. slicker than owl-snot on linoleum floor JOne of the best things we ever did for our network *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
YES you can. You can create skins and assign them to user accounts. On April 17, 2015 8:35:19 AM AKDT, That One Guy /sarcasm thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Can I use skins to give customers access in a limited capacity, create a user account called customer or whatever and a customer group that has limited access like no winbox, etc. Let them manage their wireless, internal subnets, port forwards, whatever? What I saw glancing at the metarouter thing seems like its a bigger deal than I wanted to get into, but if I could create a generic skin for the customer login to load in each one, that would be slick On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org wrote: How would you rate the boxes handling traffic and uptime in general? Just curious… Thanks, Paul *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul McCall *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Steve…. Do you trust me? Mikrotik all the way, just DO IT! … routerboard.com has all the models. slicker than owl-snot on linoleum floor JOne of the best things we ever did for our network *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
You only really need to consider their x86 routers where you have BGP speakers. Everything else can be a Mikrotik product. CCRs will not replace RBs. CCRs are their high end routers, while they continue to make the smaller routers for everything else. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 3:22:41 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Now Im thoroughly confused, do you happen to have a link to some of those products? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: blockquote Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: blockquote We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: blockquote After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. /blockquote -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. /blockquote /blockquote -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
I know a guy that knows a thing or two about the transport market. ;-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 6:06:30 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations We have a Mikrotik friendly consultant lined up for the BGP implementation. Our purpose in BGP right now is to have versatility among our /24 and our extremely mismatched bandwidth between providers. because we are currently statically routed, we are using all our IP4 space on our smaller provider, and forced to NAT the majority of our customers behind some of our bigger providers IP space, I believe we are paying more for the smaller pipe than we are for the much larger one, but we have limited options amongst our high capacity backhaul locations... but that a whole other discussion. I am trying to become familiar with the MT line of products so that the hardware decisions are our own and not solely at the whim of the consultant. The input from this list on hardware bears much more weight on those decisions than that of a consultant. Regarding their line of switches, Im conflicted here, if I stick to using them as a switch is the consensus that they are good or bad? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Dennis Burgess dmburg...@linktechs.net wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able to get off with less expensive routers but that’s depends on what you are doing, and/or what you are planning for. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc. den...@linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net From: Af [mailto: af-boun...@afmug.com ] On Behalf Of That One Guy Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 2:27 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Level 4 does pretty much everything. Level 5 and 6 enable 500/unlimited (from 200) tunnels and more user manager sessions. http://wiki.mikrotik.com/index.php?title=Manual:Licenseredirect=no#License_Levels Is this 2008 or something? I thought everyone had been using Mikrotik for many years. MT switches are not as good in any form as an HP switch from what I've heard. MT would be good for OSPF/BGP. MT hardware is not MT software. A good x86 box (OEM, Baltic, Titan, etc) should have no problems. Routerboards for $39 can have flaky ports. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:26 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA http://dmcibb.net/ DMCI Broadband, LLC gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 Ext. 103 From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Steve…. Do you trust me? Mikrotik all the way, just DO IT! … routerboard.com has all the models. slicker than owl-snot on linoleum floor ☺One of the best things we ever did for our network From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of That One Guy Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 3:27 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Pricewise per site POP router, we have always been at the 4-700 dollar range between the old imagestreams and the Fortigates, of course that was before the funds got pulled out from under me. Apparently the powers that be have revalued this and are putting the funds on the carrot sticks. This is a current decision we are still mulling over as a Powercode user, this puts us at a price rage where we can do BMUs at each POP, which from they powercode management and accounting perspective is the way to go, but it robs us of flexibility and toolsets at the site decisions. At the price-points with MT, the specs annihilate Fortigate and Imagestream (guessing on imagestrem since we no longer do business with them) I dont know the difference between the RB and CCR lines, is this a transition, to where it will all be CCR in the future, or just separate featuresets and levels of robustness? I like that MT software is available stand alone, because we can set up a virtual lab for a decent price, where other vendors we could not. Paul, I trust, he never rips us off on repairs. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Paul McCall pa...@pdmnet.net wrote: Steve…. Do you trust me? Mikrotik all the way, just DO IT! … routerboard.com has all the models. slicker than owl-snot on linoleum floor JOne of the best things we ever did for our network *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Baltic's x86: http://www.balticnetworks.com/manufacturers/maxxwave/routermaxx-routers-powered-by-mikrotik.html Search MikroNOC here: www.titanwirelessonline.com/category-s/232.htm They have boards and cases ala cate and of course the rb2011 has a board, indoor, rack option - a great product depending on size. http://routerboard.com/ Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:22 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Now Im thoroughly confused, do you happen to have a link to some of those products? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
On 03/30/2015 02:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. LOTS of good questions here. My thoughts inline. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers For the most part, if you are purchasing the appropriate routerboard product (CCR vs rb750), the right license will be preinstalled. The licensing is interesting mostly if you are installing on an X86 router. For the most part, Level 4 is the most appropriate choice, unless you are running large hotspots or aggregating your pppoe sessions to a single router. I can give a more detailed answer with more specific details of your network requirements. Is there a sizing chart on these? Not really. Here's the easiest way to say this, though: RB7XX and RB9XX are CPE RB1100 (and similar), along with CCR are intended to be infrastructure. RB450 works well as a tower router, but the cost difference to move to an 1100 should be considered carefully, as the 1100 is a much more powerful solution and has the added benefit of more ethernet ports. Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? CRS devices run the exact same software as the routers, so the interface is exactly the same. If you are going to use them in switched mode, however, I am a fan of HP and even secondary market Cisco for switching. It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Upstream - CCR or 1100ahX2 (minimum) Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 RB450 or RB1100 would fit this need. Depends mostly upon the port count requirement. Also, the RB2100 series would work well here. Any of these would handle this need easily. A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. RB9XX is intended for this purpose. As much a fan as I am for RouterOS, I cannot say that MT products compare for wireless on an equal plain with UBNT. One possible solution would be something like the RB750 (or rb951) + Unifi for the wireless. If the home is small enough to only need one AP, then the RB951 is easily enough. Specifically, the RB951-2n or the RB9511G-2HnD (higher power output). For larger homes, the RB2100-2HnD-IN is better still. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. If you do much with VLANs, then I'd (personally) stick with HP or Cisco. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. This is pretty specific to certain routerboard models and other gear. I am a fan of hard coding all interfaces on infrastructure gear, so this is not really an issue if you do things the right way (yes, I know this can start a religious war). My experience is that this does not happen with better ethernet chipsets, such as you would install in an X86 device. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. As you know, I am a big fan of RouterOS, but only where it makes sense. -- Butch Evans 702-537-0979 Network Support and Engineering http://store.wispgear.net/ http://www.butchevans.com/
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RB 1100AHx2 was what I was looking at, on the edge, our current bigger pipe is only 300mbps today, so that would seem sufficient based on your description of use, since the other is smaller, at this price migrating it down into the network if we hit growth quickly wouldnt be a dealbreaker. Its unlikely we would be doing much beyond routing, no shaping or anything of that nature anywhere in the near term. Josh hating on the hardware does concern me though. We had dicked around with a few RB 750 in the past for a couple test cases, looking more toward replacing wired Dlinks for residential customers, but had to use it in a pinch at a small site, never saw any issue and liked the toolsets. Is there a comparable unit to the Air Routers for a residential solution (we normally provide an air router unless the customer wants to use their own, we bridge the CPE radios on all but a handful of customers) The two main things we prefer out of the Air router is the ability to disable the reset button, and the wireless coverage is sufficient for a free consumer router) would have to hit the same pricepoint as the airrouter. Torch at the customer is a selling point though. out of curiousity, one thing we couldnt do with air router was tiered users on the device. We wanted to be able to give the customer a login where they can do whatever they want with the exception of changing the WAN config away from DHCP, or changing our remote access to the device. can you do this in MT? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gabriel Pike gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net wrote: We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA DMCI Broadband, LLC http://dmcibb.net/ gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 Ext. 103 *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
In answer to a separate instance in the router for customers, yes. Metarouter is the feature. http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Metarouter From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of That One Guy Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 5:02 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations RB 1100AHx2 was what I was looking at, on the edge, our current bigger pipe is only 300mbps today, so that would seem sufficient based on your description of use, since the other is smaller, at this price migrating it down into the network if we hit growth quickly wouldnt be a dealbreaker. Its unlikely we would be doing much beyond routing, no shaping or anything of that nature anywhere in the near term. Josh hating on the hardware does concern me though. We had dicked around with a few RB 750 in the past for a couple test cases, looking more toward replacing wired Dlinks for residential customers, but had to use it in a pinch at a small site, never saw any issue and liked the toolsets. Is there a comparable unit to the Air Routers for a residential solution (we normally provide an air router unless the customer wants to use their own, we bridge the CPE radios on all but a handful of customers) The two main things we prefer out of the Air router is the ability to disable the reset button, and the wireless coverage is sufficient for a free consumer router) would have to hit the same pricepoint as the airrouter. Torch at the customer is a selling point though. out of curiousity, one thing we couldnt do with air router was tiered users on the device. We wanted to be able to give the customer a login where they can do whatever they want with the exception of changing the WAN config away from DHCP, or changing our remote access to the device. can you do this in MT? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gabriel Pike gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net wrote: We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA DMCI Broadband, LLC http://dmcibb.net/ gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 Ext. 103 From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able to get off with less expensive routers but that’s depends on what you are doing, and/or what you are planning for. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc. den...@linktechs.netmailto:den...@linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.nethttp://www.linktechs.net From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of That One Guy Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 2:27 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
I haven’t had any failures with RB951, we do use the G version FWIW. I’ve had 2 out-of-box failures with RB2011, one the CPU heatsink was rattling around inside (there was a metal shaving under the sticky tape), another had a dead port. CRS125 is essentially the same CPU as RB2011, more ports and all gigabit, if you are using it as a 1U tower router and don’t need WiFi. RB2011 is smaller and less expensive. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 4:25 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations My last employer was providing AIrRouters for customer premesis. This employer is using RB951. I think there are more DOA's and early failures with the RB951, or at least the same. So yeah, you get what you pay for. It's like that Russian guy said in Armageddon: American component, Russian componentall made in Taiwan. RB2011 is pretty much the Swiss Army knife of routers. CCR has lots of cajones (up to 32!). 951 is meh. The little switches that run SwitchOS are meh. The CRS switches are nice because you get the same user interface as the routers, but I find I have to keep reminding people that they are a lousy router and don't use them as a router. Configure it as a switch and you have wire speed on every port. Configure it like a router and you have a 450 with lots of ports. On 3/30/2015 5:06 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Hating? No! Just don't expect a $39 Routerboard to be as durable as your $1000 ImageStream. The rb2011 rocks. I've got nothing but good things to say about it. The 100s and 500s from years and years back kind of irritated me. The 400s have been running for years, though, and have been fantastic! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: RB 1100AHx2 was what I was looking at, on the edge, our current bigger pipe is only 300mbps today, so that would seem sufficient based on your description of use, since the other is smaller, at this price migrating it down into the network if we hit growth quickly wouldnt be a dealbreaker. Its unlikely we would be doing much beyond routing, no shaping or anything of that nature anywhere in the near term. Josh hating on the hardware does concern me though. We had dicked around with a few RB 750 in the past for a couple test cases, looking more toward replacing wired Dlinks for residential customers, but had to use it in a pinch at a small site, never saw any issue and liked the toolsets. Is there a comparable unit to the Air Routers for a residential solution (we normally provide an air router unless the customer wants to use their own, we bridge the CPE radios on all but a handful of customers) The two main things we prefer out of the Air router is the ability to disable the reset button, and the wireless coverage is sufficient for a free consumer router) would have to hit the same pricepoint as the airrouter. Torch at the customer is a selling point though. out of curiousity, one thing we couldnt do with air router was tiered users on the device. We wanted to be able to give the customer a login where they can do whatever they want with the exception of changing the WAN config away from DHCP, or changing our remote access to the device. can you do this in MT? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gabriel Pike gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net wrote: We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA DMCI Broadband, LLC gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 Ext. 103 From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor. x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing tables from 2 providers and it works fine (for well over a year). I have a third provider with one of Dennis' x86 machines and it also works great. Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. Operations Manager Phoenix Internet On 3/30/2015 2:51 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able to get off with less expensive routers but that’s depends on what you are doing, and/or what you are planning for. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc. den...@linktechs.net mailto:den...@linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net http://www.linktechs.net *From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 2:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
I went from a big flat network to one with a Mikrotik at every tower and the core run on Mikrotik CCR1036s, I love them all and have had only a few weird issues that replacing hardware fixed. I just installed my first CCR1009, the baby brother to the full power 1036 and I freaking love this thing. I put it at a site that was running an RB450. At 80mbps peak usage I was seeing 80+% CPU on the 450 and was dropping packets. With the CCR1009, that same load sits at 2%CPU. And it is only $500. That might sound like a lot but it will handle all I ever intend to throw at it for years and I won't be concerned that it isn't enough router. I have had zero issues with my CCRs and love my RB450, RB2011, RB493, and even a few RB750s. Great stuff and super flexible. I can do things now that I never could before and I have a swiss army knife at every tower that can be used to creatively solve all kinds of problems without ever leaving my desk. -Ty On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Adam Moffett dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote: My last employer was providing AIrRouters for customer premesis. This employer is using RB951. I think there are more DOA's and early failures with the RB951, or at least the same. So yeah, you get what you pay for. It's like that Russian guy said in Armageddon: American component, Russian componentall made in Taiwan. RB2011 is pretty much the Swiss Army knife of routers. CCR has lots of cajones (up to 32!). 951 is meh. The little switches that run SwitchOS are meh. The CRS switches are nice because you get the same user interface as the routers, but I find I have to keep reminding people that they are a lousy router and don't use them as a router. Configure it as a switch and you have wire speed on every port. Configure it like a router and you have a 450 with lots of ports. On 3/30/2015 5:06 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Hating? No! Just don't expect a $39 Routerboard to be as durable as your $1000 ImageStream. The rb2011 rocks. I've got nothing but good things to say about it. The 100s and 500s from years and years back kind of irritated me. The 400s have been running for years, though, and have been fantastic! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: RB 1100AHx2 was what I was looking at, on the edge, our current bigger pipe is only 300mbps today, so that would seem sufficient based on your description of use, since the other is smaller, at this price migrating it down into the network if we hit growth quickly wouldnt be a dealbreaker. Its unlikely we would be doing much beyond routing, no shaping or anything of that nature anywhere in the near term. Josh hating on the hardware does concern me though. We had dicked around with a few RB 750 in the past for a couple test cases, looking more toward replacing wired Dlinks for residential customers, but had to use it in a pinch at a small site, never saw any issue and liked the toolsets. Is there a comparable unit to the Air Routers for a residential solution (we normally provide an air router unless the customer wants to use their own, we bridge the CPE radios on all but a handful of customers) The two main things we prefer out of the Air router is the ability to disable the reset button, and the wireless coverage is sufficient for a free consumer router) would have to hit the same pricepoint as the airrouter. Torch at the customer is a selling point though. out of curiousity, one thing we couldnt do with air router was tiered users on the device. We wanted to be able to give the customer a login where they can do whatever they want with the exception of changing the WAN config away from DHCP, or changing our remote access to the device. can you do this in MT? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gabriel Pike gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net wrote: We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA DMCI Broadband, LLC http://dmcibb.net/ gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 Ext. 103 *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
I have a lot of towers with RB1100AHx2's and use a few ports for routed backhauls, then bridge the rest for APs and other PTPs. So no real switch at most sites. I really don't need wire-speed switching between APs anyway. Some smaller sites using RB493AH G's doing the same thing. Do not try to use a CRS as a router. Do not try to use a CCR as a switch. These are not Cisco's. On 3/30/2015 6:06 PM, That One Guy wrote: We have a Mikrotik friendly consultant lined up for the BGP implementation. Our purpose in BGP right now is to have versatility among our /24 and our extremely mismatched bandwidth between providers. because we are currently statically routed, we are using all our IP4 space on our smaller provider, and forced to NAT the majority of our customers behind some of our bigger providers IP space, I believe we are paying more for the smaller pipe than we are for the much larger one, but we have limited options amongst our high capacity backhaul locations... but that a whole other discussion. I am trying to become familiar with the MT line of products so that the hardware decisions are our own and not solely at the whim of the consultant. The input from this list on hardware bears much more weight on those decisions than that of a consultant. Regarding their line of switches, Im conflicted here, if I stick to using them as a switch is the consensus that they are good or bad? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Dennis Burgess dmburg...@linktechs.net mailto:dmburg...@linktechs.net wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able to get off with less expensive routers but that’s depends on what you are doing, and/or what you are planning for. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc. den...@linktechs.net mailto:den...@linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 tel:314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net http://www.linktechs.net *From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 2:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com mailto:af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Are you taking full routing tables from your provider(s) on the edge? If so, I would probably re-think your thoughts on going with something like a RB 1100AH in this role. Take a look at the 951's for customer CPE routers. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: RB 1100AHx2 was what I was looking at, on the edge, our current bigger pipe is only 300mbps today, so that would seem sufficient based on your description of use, since the other is smaller, at this price migrating it down into the network if we hit growth quickly wouldnt be a dealbreaker. Its unlikely we would be doing much beyond routing, no shaping or anything of that nature anywhere in the near term. Josh hating on the hardware does concern me though. We had dicked around with a few RB 750 in the past for a couple test cases, looking more toward replacing wired Dlinks for residential customers, but had to use it in a pinch at a small site, never saw any issue and liked the toolsets. Is there a comparable unit to the Air Routers for a residential solution (we normally provide an air router unless the customer wants to use their own, we bridge the CPE radios on all but a handful of customers) The two main things we prefer out of the Air router is the ability to disable the reset button, and the wireless coverage is sufficient for a free consumer router) would have to hit the same pricepoint as the airrouter. Torch at the customer is a selling point though. out of curiousity, one thing we couldnt do with air router was tiered users on the device. We wanted to be able to give the customer a login where they can do whatever they want with the exception of changing the WAN config away from DHCP, or changing our remote access to the device. can you do this in MT? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gabriel Pike gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net wrote: We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA DMCI Broadband, LLC http://dmcibb.net/ gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 Ext. 103 *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years
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My last employer was providing AIrRouters for customer premesis. This employer is using RB951. I think there are more DOA's and early failures with the RB951, or at least the same. So yeah, you get what you pay for. It's like that Russian guy said in Armageddon: American component, Russian componentall made in Taiwan. RB2011 is pretty much the Swiss Army knife of routers. CCR has lots of cajones (up to 32!). 951 is meh. The little switches that run SwitchOS are meh. The CRS switches are nice because you get the same user interface as the routers, but I find I have to keep reminding people that they are a lousy router and don't use them as a router. Configure it as a switch and you have wire speed on every port. Configure it like a router and you have a 450 with lots of ports. On 3/30/2015 5:06 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Hating? No! Just don't expect a $39 Routerboard to be as durable as your $1000 ImageStream. The rb2011 rocks. I've got nothing but good things to say about it. The 100s and 500s from years and years back kind of irritated me. The 400s have been running for years, though, and have been fantastic! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: RB 1100AHx2 was what I was looking at, on the edge, our current bigger pipe is only 300mbps today, so that would seem sufficient based on your description of use, since the other is smaller, at this price migrating it down into the network if we hit growth quickly wouldnt be a dealbreaker. Its unlikely we would be doing much beyond routing, no shaping or anything of that nature anywhere in the near term. Josh hating on the hardware does concern me though. We had dicked around with a few RB 750 in the past for a couple test cases, looking more toward replacing wired Dlinks for residential customers, but had to use it in a pinch at a small site, never saw any issue and liked the toolsets. Is there a comparable unit to the Air Routers for a residential solution (we normally provide an air router unless the customer wants to use their own, we bridge the CPE radios on all but a handful of customers) The two main things we prefer out of the Air router is the ability to disable the reset button, and the wireless coverage is sufficient for a free consumer router) would have to hit the same pricepoint as the airrouter. Torch at the customer is a selling point though. out of curiousity, one thing we couldnt do with air router was tiered users on the device. We wanted to be able to give the customer a login where they can do whatever they want with the exception of changing the WAN config away from DHCP, or changing our remote access to the device. can you do this in MT? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gabriel Pike gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net mailto:gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net wrote: We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA DMCI Broadband, LLC http://dmcibb.net/ gabrielp...@dmcibb.net mailto:gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 tel:877.936.2422 Ext. 103 *From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM *To:* af@afmug.com mailto:af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 tel:937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 tel:937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar
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I agree, if you're running BGP with full routes, you would want to use an x86 box (like the ones from Baltic or Titan) on the edge. An RB2011 will probably be more than enough horsepower for most POP routers. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com wrote: Are you taking full routing tables from your provider(s) on the edge? If so, I would probably re-think your thoughts on going with something like a RB 1100AH in this role. Take a look at the 951's for customer CPE routers. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: RB 1100AHx2 was what I was looking at, on the edge, our current bigger pipe is only 300mbps today, so that would seem sufficient based on your description of use, since the other is smaller, at this price migrating it down into the network if we hit growth quickly wouldnt be a dealbreaker. Its unlikely we would be doing much beyond routing, no shaping or anything of that nature anywhere in the near term. Josh hating on the hardware does concern me though. We had dicked around with a few RB 750 in the past for a couple test cases, looking more toward replacing wired Dlinks for residential customers, but had to use it in a pinch at a small site, never saw any issue and liked the toolsets. Is there a comparable unit to the Air Routers for a residential solution (we normally provide an air router unless the customer wants to use their own, we bridge the CPE radios on all but a handful of customers) The two main things we prefer out of the Air router is the ability to disable the reset button, and the wireless coverage is sufficient for a free consumer router) would have to hit the same pricepoint as the airrouter. Torch at the customer is a selling point though. out of curiousity, one thing we couldnt do with air router was tiered users on the device. We wanted to be able to give the customer a login where they can do whatever they want with the exception of changing the WAN config away from DHCP, or changing our remote access to the device. can you do this in MT? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gabriel Pike gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net wrote: We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA DMCI Broadband, LLC http://dmcibb.net/ gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 Ext. 103 *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see
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Hating? No! Just don't expect a $39 Routerboard to be as durable as your $1000 ImageStream. The rb2011 rocks. I've got nothing but good things to say about it. The 100s and 500s from years and years back kind of irritated me. The 400s have been running for years, though, and have been fantastic! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: RB 1100AHx2 was what I was looking at, on the edge, our current bigger pipe is only 300mbps today, so that would seem sufficient based on your description of use, since the other is smaller, at this price migrating it down into the network if we hit growth quickly wouldnt be a dealbreaker. Its unlikely we would be doing much beyond routing, no shaping or anything of that nature anywhere in the near term. Josh hating on the hardware does concern me though. We had dicked around with a few RB 750 in the past for a couple test cases, looking more toward replacing wired Dlinks for residential customers, but had to use it in a pinch at a small site, never saw any issue and liked the toolsets. Is there a comparable unit to the Air Routers for a residential solution (we normally provide an air router unless the customer wants to use their own, we bridge the CPE radios on all but a handful of customers) The two main things we prefer out of the Air router is the ability to disable the reset button, and the wireless coverage is sufficient for a free consumer router) would have to hit the same pricepoint as the airrouter. Torch at the customer is a selling point though. out of curiousity, one thing we couldnt do with air router was tiered users on the device. We wanted to be able to give the customer a login where they can do whatever they want with the exception of changing the WAN config away from DHCP, or changing our remote access to the device. can you do this in MT? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gabriel Pike gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net wrote: We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA DMCI Broadband, LLC http://dmcibb.net/ gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 Ext. 103 *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines with RouterOS on them already. I'd use these 1000x before I touched ImageStream at tower sites. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys saying, you purchase the router OS and put it on third party hardware over using their hardware? What hardware do you find yourselves using, if not routerboard? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com wrote: We do 99% of what we need on MT level 4. You only need level 5 or 6 if you have a bunch of tunnels. Get what you need mainly based on throughput and simultaneous connections. A lowly RB493 easily handles tens of thousands simultaneous connections, and a X86 router probably another order of magnitude. I think the typical connection table on any of the newer boards can get up around 500,000 connections. If you have solar powered sites, I think that MT is the only game in town. I've had limited success with their switches, and I do not consider them a robust solution. So if you need decent switches in your infrastructure, and you like your Procurves, stick with them. That said, I have stuck in quite a few routerboards and used them as switches no problem. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 3/30/2015 12:26 PM, That One Guy wrote: After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream
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Good point to make there Ken. Steve, make sure you buy the G for gigabit versions of the router when available. Not only will you get gigabit ports but you also get a faster processor. I do love the CRS125 as long as you know what it is and don't think it is something it isn't. Like you said it is just link a 450 or maybe a 2011 but with more ports. -Ty On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: I haven’t had any failures with RB951, we do use the G version FWIW. I’ve had 2 out-of-box failures with RB2011, one the CPU heatsink was rattling around inside (there was a metal shaving under the sticky tape), another had a dead port. CRS125 is essentially the same CPU as RB2011, more ports and all gigabit, if you are using it as a 1U tower router and don’t need WiFi. RB2011 is smaller and less expensive. *From:* Adam Moffett dmmoff...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 4:25 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations My last employer was providing AIrRouters for customer premesis. This employer is using RB951. I think there are more DOA's and early failures with the RB951, or at least the same. So yeah, you get what you pay for. It's like that Russian guy said in Armageddon: American component, Russian componentall made in Taiwan. RB2011 is pretty much the Swiss Army knife of routers. CCR has lots of cajones (up to 32!). 951 is meh. The little switches that run SwitchOS are meh. The CRS switches are nice because you get the same user interface as the routers, but I find I have to keep reminding people that they are a lousy router and don't use them as a router. Configure it as a switch and you have wire speed on every port. Configure it like a router and you have a 450 with lots of ports. On 3/30/2015 5:06 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Hating? No! Just don't expect a $39 Routerboard to be as durable as your $1000 ImageStream. The rb2011 rocks. I've got nothing but good things to say about it. The 100s and 500s from years and years back kind of irritated me. The 400s have been running for years, though, and have been fantastic! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: RB 1100AHx2 was what I was looking at, on the edge, our current bigger pipe is only 300mbps today, so that would seem sufficient based on your description of use, since the other is smaller, at this price migrating it down into the network if we hit growth quickly wouldnt be a dealbreaker. Its unlikely we would be doing much beyond routing, no shaping or anything of that nature anywhere in the near term. Josh hating on the hardware does concern me though. We had dicked around with a few RB 750 in the past for a couple test cases, looking more toward replacing wired Dlinks for residential customers, but had to use it in a pinch at a small site, never saw any issue and liked the toolsets. Is there a comparable unit to the Air Routers for a residential solution (we normally provide an air router unless the customer wants to use their own, we bridge the CPE radios on all but a handful of customers) The two main things we prefer out of the Air router is the ability to disable the reset button, and the wireless coverage is sufficient for a free consumer router) would have to hit the same pricepoint as the airrouter. Torch at the customer is a selling point though. out of curiousity, one thing we couldnt do with air router was tiered users on the device. We wanted to be able to give the customer a login where they can do whatever they want with the exception of changing the WAN config away from DHCP, or changing our remote access to the device. can you do this in MT? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gabriel Pike gabriel.wi...@dmcibb.net wrote: We use Mikrotiks for all of our routers. We have a similar set up to the one you describe. I have 2 WAN routers doing BGP and iBGP between them with OSPF for internal routing. I really like Mikrotiks. I was trained with Cisco products in College but Mikrotiks were an easy transition. We use mostly RB 1100AHx2’s but I am about to upgrade our core routers to CCR series. We take in 300Mbps through both internet feeds and I am starting to max the CPU of the 1100AHX2’s. Regards, Gabriel Pike Network Support and Engineering MTCNA DMCI Broadband, LLC http://dmcibb.net/ gabrielp...@dmcibb.net 877.936.2422 Ext. 103 *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 4:04 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Generally you use x86 for the purchase of a license. That's where they started their business. Baltic/Titan/etc have their suggested models which are just x86 machines
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We have a Mikrotik friendly consultant lined up for the BGP implementation. Our purpose in BGP right now is to have versatility among our /24 and our extremely mismatched bandwidth between providers. because we are currently statically routed, we are using all our IP4 space on our smaller provider, and forced to NAT the majority of our customers behind some of our bigger providers IP space, I believe we are paying more for the smaller pipe than we are for the much larger one, but we have limited options amongst our high capacity backhaul locations... but that a whole other discussion. I am trying to become familiar with the MT line of products so that the hardware decisions are our own and not solely at the whim of the consultant. The input from this list on hardware bears much more weight on those decisions than that of a consultant. Regarding their line of switches, Im conflicted here, if I stick to using them as a switch is the consensus that they are good or bad? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Dennis Burgess dmburg...@linktechs.net wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able to get off with less expensive routers but that’s depends on what you are doing, and/or what you are planning for. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc. den...@linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 2:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP procurves from 1810G to 2510G and their other POE models. I note alot of discussion regarding MT ethernet negotiation flakiness, how much of an impact does this present? Right now we have imagestream and fortigate on the network, and have zero issues with that. The decision to go toward mikrotik is primarily based on cost and community support availability within the industry. (this consideration has alot to do with a single point of administrative failure in only having one person, me, training to design, maintain, support, and grow the network, in the event i became absent from the picture) The winbox interface and feature availability within was also a primary consideration for support staff. I would like to her from people entrenched in MT who love/hate it, anybody who turned their back on it, and anybody who moved toward it. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Great input guys, I truly appreciate it. On the RB110 AH, I see Includes switch to enable Ethernet bypass mode in two ports What is this? Tell me it turns those two ports into a couple if the router fails, that would be nice if we opt to fully route our backhauls. Currently, at the sites we have routers at, we have all the backhauls and our battery backup coming into a switch ( had a failed RSTP implementation previously, then moved to manual redundant failover), this connects the a port on a router, then the interior port of the router connects to a switch that houses the site APs. assuming I dont exceed the number of ports in the device I can still bridge ports and achieve essentially the same thing, freeing up both battery consumption and cost? I like the modular approach of three things (APs tend to be the source of lighting taking out the internal switch, but leaving the backhauls intact), but it does add substantial hurt when lighting strikes in replacement costs, especially at small sites. We have imagestream rebel routers for our two primary, we have never had any performance issue or trouble out of them. Without actually going and looking at the specs on the two I think I would be safe at this point to replace them with the RB110AH, and move them downstream replacing them with these CCRs or a third party hardware as we progress to a respectable network if there is any impact? This would be a preferred POP router as well, with the option of smaller sites using a smaller (cheaper) unit until the site demanded it. For the customer, we only provide the air router for cheap wireless, with no guarantees on coverage, we set the ESSID based on their name and the key based on their MAC, no exceptions, policy is if theyre having problems, we shut the wireless off and have them purchase their own AP or wireless router and replace ours, seeking in house wireless support from that vendor. If we can source the RB951-2N at a comparable price to the air router, then with our wireless policy in mind it is a sufficient replacement with more potential features including gigabit ethernet? Getting the routed network components under a single interface has a huge amount of benefit to me in regard to getting my guys capable of replacing me if that came to pass. The current network requires familiarity with too many brands and too many interfaces to have an unmotivated second. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company could reach out to the community to get a handle on the design even without my poorly documented notes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Gilbert Gutierrez mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor. x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing tables from 2 providers and it works fine (for well over a year). I have a third provider with one of Dennis' x86 machines and it also works great. Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. Operations Manager Phoenix Internet On 3/30/2015 2:51 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able to get off with less expensive routers but that’s depends on what you are doing, and/or what you are planning for. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc. den...@linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 2:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations After poking around at many different brands, it seems Mikrotik is the right fit for our network and budget. I dont fully understand the licensing tiers Is there a sizing chart on these? Is the interface similar between the router models and the switch models? Are the mikrotik switches comparable to the HP procurve in reliability? It would be the bees knees to see out network more universal as far as management interfaces go, we have three purposes for routers: our upstream routers, which we have 2, will ultimately be running OSPF internally and BGP externally (current thought) 200mbps-1gbps projected need through the next couple of years. Our network/POP routers ranging from 1 customer at a POP to 150 A residential solution comparable to the UBNT AirRouters (1-25mbps rate plans) wifi capable. If the switches have similar interfaces, we would look toward replacing a combination of UBNT toughswitch POE, and a variety of HP
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
We have a ton of 450G's out in the field at towers for smaller sites. We also typically use the 450G as a 'managed router' solution for dedicated business customers. Backhauls go into routed ports, AP's go into a bridge. When we need more interfaces, we start to look at the 2011 for small to medium sized sites. We have 1100AHX2's at our larger sites mostly due to the number of interfaces. We usually don't put switches at sites although this will probably change as we are considering deploying the Netonix DC switches at the top-of-tower for some sites. We do not use MT for the edge and core of our network. If you do choose to go with MT in the edge role, I would look into x86, especially if you are taking full routing tables from your provider(s). As others have said (and I will echo); if you are used to a L2 switch like HP/Cisco and need to do much with VLANs, you may want to stick with them. Josh On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Great input guys, I truly appreciate it. On the RB110 AH, I see Includes switch to enable Ethernet bypass mode in two ports What is this? Tell me it turns those two ports into a couple if the router fails, that would be nice if we opt to fully route our backhauls. Currently, at the sites we have routers at, we have all the backhauls and our battery backup coming into a switch ( had a failed RSTP implementation previously, then moved to manual redundant failover), this connects the a port on a router, then the interior port of the router connects to a switch that houses the site APs. assuming I dont exceed the number of ports in the device I can still bridge ports and achieve essentially the same thing, freeing up both battery consumption and cost? I like the modular approach of three things (APs tend to be the source of lighting taking out the internal switch, but leaving the backhauls intact), but it does add substantial hurt when lighting strikes in replacement costs, especially at small sites. We have imagestream rebel routers for our two primary, we have never had any performance issue or trouble out of them. Without actually going and looking at the specs on the two I think I would be safe at this point to replace them with the RB110AH, and move them downstream replacing them with these CCRs or a third party hardware as we progress to a respectable network if there is any impact? This would be a preferred POP router as well, with the option of smaller sites using a smaller (cheaper) unit until the site demanded it. For the customer, we only provide the air router for cheap wireless, with no guarantees on coverage, we set the ESSID based on their name and the key based on their MAC, no exceptions, policy is if theyre having problems, we shut the wireless off and have them purchase their own AP or wireless router and replace ours, seeking in house wireless support from that vendor. If we can source the RB951-2N at a comparable price to the air router, then with our wireless policy in mind it is a sufficient replacement with more potential features including gigabit ethernet? Getting the routed network components under a single interface has a huge amount of benefit to me in regard to getting my guys capable of replacing me if that came to pass. The current network requires familiarity with too many brands and too many interfaces to have an unmotivated second. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company could reach out to the community to get a handle on the design even without my poorly documented notes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Gilbert Gutierrez mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor. x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing tables from 2 providers and it works fine (for well over a year). I have a third provider with one of Dennis' x86 machines and it also works great. Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. Operations Manager Phoenix Internet On 3/30/2015 2:51 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able to get off with less expensive routers but that’s depends on what you are doing, and/or what you are planning for. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc. den...@linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 2:27 PM *To:* af@afmug.com
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Now, see this leads back to confusion for me, that product is listed as just a routerboard. I assume this is so you can use your own housing? For that I would just purchase a CA150 separately? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com wrote: We just haven't had a chance to try it yet. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Seems like the RB850Gx2 gets no love? *From:* Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 6:57 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations We have a ton of 450G's out in the field at towers for smaller sites. We also typically use the 450G as a 'managed router' solution for dedicated business customers. Backhauls go into routed ports, AP's go into a bridge. When we need more interfaces, we start to look at the 2011 for small to medium sized sites. We have 1100AHX2's at our larger sites mostly due to the number of interfaces. We usually don't put switches at sites although this will probably change as we are considering deploying the Netonix DC switches at the top-of-tower for some sites. We do not use MT for the edge and core of our network. If you do choose to go with MT in the edge role, I would look into x86, especially if you are taking full routing tables from your provider(s). As others have said (and I will echo); if you are used to a L2 switch like HP/Cisco and need to do much with VLANs, you may want to stick with them. Josh On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Great input guys, I truly appreciate it. On the RB110 AH, I see Includes switch to enable Ethernet bypass mode in two ports What is this? Tell me it turns those two ports into a couple if the router fails, that would be nice if we opt to fully route our backhauls. Currently, at the sites we have routers at, we have all the backhauls and our battery backup coming into a switch ( had a failed RSTP implementation previously, then moved to manual redundant failover), this connects the a port on a router, then the interior port of the router connects to a switch that houses the site APs. assuming I dont exceed the number of ports in the device I can still bridge ports and achieve essentially the same thing, freeing up both battery consumption and cost? I like the modular approach of three things (APs tend to be the source of lighting taking out the internal switch, but leaving the backhauls intact), but it does add substantial hurt when lighting strikes in replacement costs, especially at small sites. We have imagestream rebel routers for our two primary, we have never had any performance issue or trouble out of them. Without actually going and looking at the specs on the two I think I would be safe at this point to replace them with the RB110AH, and move them downstream replacing them with these CCRs or a third party hardware as we progress to a respectable network if there is any impact? This would be a preferred POP router as well, with the option of smaller sites using a smaller (cheaper) unit until the site demanded it. For the customer, we only provide the air router for cheap wireless, with no guarantees on coverage, we set the ESSID based on their name and the key based on their MAC, no exceptions, policy is if theyre having problems, we shut the wireless off and have them purchase their own AP or wireless router and replace ours, seeking in house wireless support from that vendor. If we can source the RB951-2N at a comparable price to the air router, then with our wireless policy in mind it is a sufficient replacement with more potential features including gigabit ethernet? Getting the routed network components under a single interface has a huge amount of benefit to me in regard to getting my guys capable of replacing me if that came to pass. The current network requires familiarity with too many brands and too many interfaces to have an unmotivated second. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company could reach out to the community to get a handle on the design even without my poorly documented notes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Gilbert Gutierrez mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor. x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing tables from 2 providers and it works fine (for well over a year). I have a third provider with one of Dennis' x86 machines and it also works great. Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. Operations Manager Phoenix Internet On 3/30/2015 2:51 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
I believe all boards have an indoor OEM case. There are tons of third party outdoor options. Keep in mind boosts like 951 is for home CPE, nothing like BGP. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mar 30, 2015 8:33 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Now, see this leads back to confusion for me, that product is listed as just a routerboard. I assume this is so you can use your own housing? For that I would just purchase a CA150 separately? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com wrote: We just haven't had a chance to try it yet. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Seems like the RB850Gx2 gets no love? *From:* Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 6:57 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations We have a ton of 450G's out in the field at towers for smaller sites. We also typically use the 450G as a 'managed router' solution for dedicated business customers. Backhauls go into routed ports, AP's go into a bridge. When we need more interfaces, we start to look at the 2011 for small to medium sized sites. We have 1100AHX2's at our larger sites mostly due to the number of interfaces. We usually don't put switches at sites although this will probably change as we are considering deploying the Netonix DC switches at the top-of-tower for some sites. We do not use MT for the edge and core of our network. If you do choose to go with MT in the edge role, I would look into x86, especially if you are taking full routing tables from your provider(s). As others have said (and I will echo); if you are used to a L2 switch like HP/Cisco and need to do much with VLANs, you may want to stick with them. Josh On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Great input guys, I truly appreciate it. On the RB110 AH, I see Includes switch to enable Ethernet bypass mode in two ports What is this? Tell me it turns those two ports into a couple if the router fails, that would be nice if we opt to fully route our backhauls. Currently, at the sites we have routers at, we have all the backhauls and our battery backup coming into a switch ( had a failed RSTP implementation previously, then moved to manual redundant failover), this connects the a port on a router, then the interior port of the router connects to a switch that houses the site APs. assuming I dont exceed the number of ports in the device I can still bridge ports and achieve essentially the same thing, freeing up both battery consumption and cost? I like the modular approach of three things (APs tend to be the source of lighting taking out the internal switch, but leaving the backhauls intact), but it does add substantial hurt when lighting strikes in replacement costs, especially at small sites. We have imagestream rebel routers for our two primary, we have never had any performance issue or trouble out of them. Without actually going and looking at the specs on the two I think I would be safe at this point to replace them with the RB110AH, and move them downstream replacing them with these CCRs or a third party hardware as we progress to a respectable network if there is any impact? This would be a preferred POP router as well, with the option of smaller sites using a smaller (cheaper) unit until the site demanded it. For the customer, we only provide the air router for cheap wireless, with no guarantees on coverage, we set the ESSID based on their name and the key based on their MAC, no exceptions, policy is if theyre having problems, we shut the wireless off and have them purchase their own AP or wireless router and replace ours, seeking in house wireless support from that vendor. If we can source the RB951-2N at a comparable price to the air router, then with our wireless policy in mind it is a sufficient replacement with more potential features including gigabit ethernet? Getting the routed network components under a single interface has a huge amount of benefit to me in regard to getting my guys capable of replacing me if that came to pass. The current network requires familiarity with too many brands and too many interfaces to have an unmotivated second. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company could reach out to the community to get a handle on the design even without my poorly documented notes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Gilbert Gutierrez mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor. x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing tables
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Take a look at Baltic or roc-noc.com. They sell them with cases. On Mar 30, 2015, at 8:33 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Now, see this leads back to confusion for me, that product is listed as just a routerboard. I assume this is so you can use your own housing? For that I would just purchase a CA150 separately? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com wrote: We just haven't had a chance to try it yet. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Seems like the RB850Gx2 gets no love? From: Josh Baird Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 6:57 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations We have a ton of 450G's out in the field at towers for smaller sites. We also typically use the 450G as a 'managed router' solution for dedicated business customers. Backhauls go into routed ports, AP's go into a bridge. When we need more interfaces, we start to look at the 2011 for small to medium sized sites. We have 1100AHX2's at our larger sites mostly due to the number of interfaces. We usually don't put switches at sites although this will probably change as we are considering deploying the Netonix DC switches at the top-of-tower for some sites. We do not use MT for the edge and core of our network. If you do choose to go with MT in the edge role, I would look into x86, especially if you are taking full routing tables from your provider(s). As others have said (and I will echo); if you are used to a L2 switch like HP/Cisco and need to do much with VLANs, you may want to stick with them. Josh On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Great input guys, I truly appreciate it. On the RB110 AH, I see Includes switch to enable Ethernet bypass mode in two ports What is this? Tell me it turns those two ports into a couple if the router fails, that would be nice if we opt to fully route our backhauls. Currently, at the sites we have routers at, we have all the backhauls and our battery backup coming into a switch ( had a failed RSTP implementation previously, then moved to manual redundant failover), this connects the a port on a router, then the interior port of the router connects to a switch that houses the site APs. assuming I dont exceed the number of ports in the device I can still bridge ports and achieve essentially the same thing, freeing up both battery consumption and cost? I like the modular approach of three things (APs tend to be the source of lighting taking out the internal switch, but leaving the backhauls intact), but it does add substantial hurt when lighting strikes in replacement costs, especially at small sites. We have imagestream rebel routers for our two primary, we have never had any performance issue or trouble out of them. Without actually going and looking at the specs on the two I think I would be safe at this point to replace them with the RB110AH, and move them downstream replacing them with these CCRs or a third party hardware as we progress to a respectable network if there is any impact? This would be a preferred POP router as well, with the option of smaller sites using a smaller (cheaper) unit until the site demanded it. For the customer, we only provide the air router for cheap wireless, with no guarantees on coverage, we set the ESSID based on their name and the key based on their MAC, no exceptions, policy is if theyre having problems, we shut the wireless off and have them purchase their own AP or wireless router and replace ours, seeking in house wireless support from that vendor. If we can source the RB951-2N at a comparable price to the air router, then with our wireless policy in mind it is a sufficient replacement with more potential features including gigabit ethernet? Getting the routed network components under a single interface has a huge amount of benefit to me in regard to getting my guys capable of replacing me if that came to pass. The current network requires familiarity with too many brands and too many interfaces to have an unmotivated second. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company could reach out to the community to get a handle on the design even without my poorly documented notes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, GilbertGutierrez mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor. x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing tables from 2 providers and it works fine (for well over a year). I have a third provider with one of Dennis' x86 machines
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
RB850Gx2 is a great product! :) Erich Kaiser North Central Tower er...@northcentraltower.com Office: 630-621-4804 Cell: 630-777-9291 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Seems like the RB850Gx2 gets no love? *From:* Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 6:57 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations We have a ton of 450G's out in the field at towers for smaller sites. We also typically use the 450G as a 'managed router' solution for dedicated business customers. Backhauls go into routed ports, AP's go into a bridge. When we need more interfaces, we start to look at the 2011 for small to medium sized sites. We have 1100AHX2's at our larger sites mostly due to the number of interfaces. We usually don't put switches at sites although this will probably change as we are considering deploying the Netonix DC switches at the top-of-tower for some sites. We do not use MT for the edge and core of our network. If you do choose to go with MT in the edge role, I would look into x86, especially if you are taking full routing tables from your provider(s). As others have said (and I will echo); if you are used to a L2 switch like HP/Cisco and need to do much with VLANs, you may want to stick with them. Josh On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Great input guys, I truly appreciate it. On the RB110 AH, I see Includes switch to enable Ethernet bypass mode in two ports What is this? Tell me it turns those two ports into a couple if the router fails, that would be nice if we opt to fully route our backhauls. Currently, at the sites we have routers at, we have all the backhauls and our battery backup coming into a switch ( had a failed RSTP implementation previously, then moved to manual redundant failover), this connects the a port on a router, then the interior port of the router connects to a switch that houses the site APs. assuming I dont exceed the number of ports in the device I can still bridge ports and achieve essentially the same thing, freeing up both battery consumption and cost? I like the modular approach of three things (APs tend to be the source of lighting taking out the internal switch, but leaving the backhauls intact), but it does add substantial hurt when lighting strikes in replacement costs, especially at small sites. We have imagestream rebel routers for our two primary, we have never had any performance issue or trouble out of them. Without actually going and looking at the specs on the two I think I would be safe at this point to replace them with the RB110AH, and move them downstream replacing them with these CCRs or a third party hardware as we progress to a respectable network if there is any impact? This would be a preferred POP router as well, with the option of smaller sites using a smaller (cheaper) unit until the site demanded it. For the customer, we only provide the air router for cheap wireless, with no guarantees on coverage, we set the ESSID based on their name and the key based on their MAC, no exceptions, policy is if theyre having problems, we shut the wireless off and have them purchase their own AP or wireless router and replace ours, seeking in house wireless support from that vendor. If we can source the RB951-2N at a comparable price to the air router, then with our wireless policy in mind it is a sufficient replacement with more potential features including gigabit ethernet? Getting the routed network components under a single interface has a huge amount of benefit to me in regard to getting my guys capable of replacing me if that came to pass. The current network requires familiarity with too many brands and too many interfaces to have an unmotivated second. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company could reach out to the community to get a handle on the design even without my poorly documented notes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Gilbert Gutierrez mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor. x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing tables from 2 providers and it works fine (for well over a year). I have a third provider with one of Dennis' x86 machines and it also works great. Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. Operations Manager Phoenix Internet On 3/30/2015 2:51 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Seems like the RB850Gx2 gets no love? From: Josh Baird Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 6:57 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations We have a ton of 450G's out in the field at towers for smaller sites. We also typically use the 450G as a 'managed router' solution for dedicated business customers. Backhauls go into routed ports, AP's go into a bridge. When we need more interfaces, we start to look at the 2011 for small to medium sized sites. We have 1100AHX2's at our larger sites mostly due to the number of interfaces. We usually don't put switches at sites although this will probably change as we are considering deploying the Netonix DC switches at the top-of-tower for some sites. We do not use MT for the edge and core of our network. If you do choose to go with MT in the edge role, I would look into x86, especially if you are taking full routing tables from your provider(s). As others have said (and I will echo); if you are used to a L2 switch like HP/Cisco and need to do much with VLANs, you may want to stick with them. Josh On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Great input guys, I truly appreciate it. On the RB110 AH, I see Includes switch to enable Ethernet bypass mode in two ports What is this? Tell me it turns those two ports into a couple if the router fails, that would be nice if we opt to fully route our backhauls. Currently, at the sites we have routers at, we have all the backhauls and our battery backup coming into a switch ( had a failed RSTP implementation previously, then moved to manual redundant failover), this connects the a port on a router, then the interior port of the router connects to a switch that houses the site APs. assuming I dont exceed the number of ports in the device I can still bridge ports and achieve essentially the same thing, freeing up both battery consumption and cost? I like the modular approach of three things (APs tend to be the source of lighting taking out the internal switch, but leaving the backhauls intact), but it does add substantial hurt when lighting strikes in replacement costs, especially at small sites. We have imagestream rebel routers for our two primary, we have never had any performance issue or trouble out of them. Without actually going and looking at the specs on the two I think I would be safe at this point to replace them with the RB110AH, and move them downstream replacing them with these CCRs or a third party hardware as we progress to a respectable network if there is any impact? This would be a preferred POP router as well, with the option of smaller sites using a smaller (cheaper) unit until the site demanded it. For the customer, we only provide the air router for cheap wireless, with no guarantees on coverage, we set the ESSID based on their name and the key based on their MAC, no exceptions, policy is if theyre having problems, we shut the wireless off and have them purchase their own AP or wireless router and replace ours, seeking in house wireless support from that vendor. If we can source the RB951-2N at a comparable price to the air router, then with our wireless policy in mind it is a sufficient replacement with more potential features including gigabit ethernet? Getting the routed network components under a single interface has a huge amount of benefit to me in regard to getting my guys capable of replacing me if that came to pass. The current network requires familiarity with too many brands and too many interfaces to have an unmotivated second. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company could reach out to the community to get a handle on the design even without my poorly documented notes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Gilbert Gutierrez mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor. x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing tables from 2 providers and it works fine (for well over a year). I have a third provider with one of Dennis' x86 machines and it also works great. Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. Operations Manager Phoenix Internet On 3/30/2015 2:51 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able to get off with less expensive routers but that’s depends on what you are doing, and/or what you are planning for. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
Yes. Or something like this: http://www.balticnetworks.com/mikrotik-routerboard-850gx2-complete-with-aluminum-desktop-enclosure-and-power-supply.html Or if you have a 450G with bulging capacitors and are tired of desoldering and replacing them, you could slip an 850Gx2 into the old case and get a performance boost. From: That One Guy Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 7:33 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations Now, see this leads back to confusion for me, that product is listed as just a routerboard. I assume this is so you can use your own housing? For that I would just purchase a CA150 separately? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com wrote: We just haven't had a chance to try it yet. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Seems like the RB850Gx2 gets no love? From: Josh Baird Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 6:57 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations We have a ton of 450G's out in the field at towers for smaller sites. We also typically use the 450G as a 'managed router' solution for dedicated business customers. Backhauls go into routed ports, AP's go into a bridge. When we need more interfaces, we start to look at the 2011 for small to medium sized sites. We have 1100AHX2's at our larger sites mostly due to the number of interfaces. We usually don't put switches at sites although this will probably change as we are considering deploying the Netonix DC switches at the top-of-tower for some sites. We do not use MT for the edge and core of our network. If you do choose to go with MT in the edge role, I would look into x86, especially if you are taking full routing tables from your provider(s). As others have said (and I will echo); if you are used to a L2 switch like HP/Cisco and need to do much with VLANs, you may want to stick with them. Josh On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Great input guys, I truly appreciate it. On the RB110 AH, I see Includes switch to enable Ethernet bypass mode in two ports What is this? Tell me it turns those two ports into a couple if the router fails, that would be nice if we opt to fully route our backhauls. Currently, at the sites we have routers at, we have all the backhauls and our battery backup coming into a switch ( had a failed RSTP implementation previously, then moved to manual redundant failover), this connects the a port on a router, then the interior port of the router connects to a switch that houses the site APs. assuming I dont exceed the number of ports in the device I can still bridge ports and achieve essentially the same thing, freeing up both battery consumption and cost? I like the modular approach of three things (APs tend to be the source of lighting taking out the internal switch, but leaving the backhauls intact), but it does add substantial hurt when lighting strikes in replacement costs, especially at small sites. We have imagestream rebel routers for our two primary, we have never had any performance issue or trouble out of them. Without actually going and looking at the specs on the two I think I would be safe at this point to replace them with the RB110AH, and move them downstream replacing them with these CCRs or a third party hardware as we progress to a respectable network if there is any impact? This would be a preferred POP router as well, with the option of smaller sites using a smaller (cheaper) unit until the site demanded it. For the customer, we only provide the air router for cheap wireless, with no guarantees on coverage, we set the ESSID based on their name and the key based on their MAC, no exceptions, policy is if theyre having problems, we shut the wireless off and have them purchase their own AP or wireless router and replace ours, seeking in house wireless support from that vendor. If we can source the RB951-2N at a comparable price to the air router, then with our wireless policy in mind it is a sufficient replacement with more potential features including gigabit ethernet? Getting the routed network components under a single interface has a huge amount of benefit to me in regard to getting my guys capable of replacing me if that came to pass. The current network requires familiarity with too many brands and too many interfaces to have an unmotivated second. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company could reach out to the community to get a handle on the design even without my poorly documented notes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Gilbert Gutierrez mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
We just haven't had a chance to try it yet. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Seems like the RB850Gx2 gets no love? *From:* Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 6:57 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations We have a ton of 450G's out in the field at towers for smaller sites. We also typically use the 450G as a 'managed router' solution for dedicated business customers. Backhauls go into routed ports, AP's go into a bridge. When we need more interfaces, we start to look at the 2011 for small to medium sized sites. We have 1100AHX2's at our larger sites mostly due to the number of interfaces. We usually don't put switches at sites although this will probably change as we are considering deploying the Netonix DC switches at the top-of-tower for some sites. We do not use MT for the edge and core of our network. If you do choose to go with MT in the edge role, I would look into x86, especially if you are taking full routing tables from your provider(s). As others have said (and I will echo); if you are used to a L2 switch like HP/Cisco and need to do much with VLANs, you may want to stick with them. Josh On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com wrote: Great input guys, I truly appreciate it. On the RB110 AH, I see Includes switch to enable Ethernet bypass mode in two ports What is this? Tell me it turns those two ports into a couple if the router fails, that would be nice if we opt to fully route our backhauls. Currently, at the sites we have routers at, we have all the backhauls and our battery backup coming into a switch ( had a failed RSTP implementation previously, then moved to manual redundant failover), this connects the a port on a router, then the interior port of the router connects to a switch that houses the site APs. assuming I dont exceed the number of ports in the device I can still bridge ports and achieve essentially the same thing, freeing up both battery consumption and cost? I like the modular approach of three things (APs tend to be the source of lighting taking out the internal switch, but leaving the backhauls intact), but it does add substantial hurt when lighting strikes in replacement costs, especially at small sites. We have imagestream rebel routers for our two primary, we have never had any performance issue or trouble out of them. Without actually going and looking at the specs on the two I think I would be safe at this point to replace them with the RB110AH, and move them downstream replacing them with these CCRs or a third party hardware as we progress to a respectable network if there is any impact? This would be a preferred POP router as well, with the option of smaller sites using a smaller (cheaper) unit until the site demanded it. For the customer, we only provide the air router for cheap wireless, with no guarantees on coverage, we set the ESSID based on their name and the key based on their MAC, no exceptions, policy is if theyre having problems, we shut the wireless off and have them purchase their own AP or wireless router and replace ours, seeking in house wireless support from that vendor. If we can source the RB951-2N at a comparable price to the air router, then with our wireless policy in mind it is a sufficient replacement with more potential features including gigabit ethernet? Getting the routed network components under a single interface has a huge amount of benefit to me in regard to getting my guys capable of replacing me if that came to pass. The current network requires familiarity with too many brands and too many interfaces to have an unmotivated second. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company could reach out to the community to get a handle on the design even without my poorly documented notes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Gilbert Gutierrez mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I would also suggest getting a WISP consulting company involved if you have questions on what products to use. BGP can be an issue with full routes on a CCR due to the way RouterOS is designed with that processor. x86 processor handles BGP great. With that being said, I have over a Gigabit of traffic flowing over some CCR routers with full routing tables from 2 providers and it works fine (for well over a year). I have a third provider with one of Dennis' x86 machines and it also works great. Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. Operations Manager Phoenix Internet On 3/30/2015 2:51 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote: Steve, I would suggest listening to the people here as well as maybe getting a WISP consulting company to steer you in the right direction . Also the MT vendor should be able to give you all of the recommendations that you need on hardware. . Lots of options, however, you may be able to get off with less expensive routers but that’s
Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Pros/Cons and recomendations
On 03/30/2015 06:06 PM, That One Guy wrote: Regarding their line of switches, Im conflicted here, if I stick to using them as a switch is the consensus that they are good or bad? CRS as a switch, is good. CRS with VLANs is good, but truly a convoluted configuration, but is not too far from some of the same processes you use in HP vlan configs. Learning curve should be reasonable. I am happy to assist further with the configuration and such should you need it. -- Butch Evans 702-537-0979 Network Support and Engineering http://store.wispgear.net/ http://www.butchevans.com/