I tested one about two months ago. We were pushing 120Mbps incoming and
50Mbps outgoing traffic with 10 simple queues and some firewall rules
and the CPU was running at about 35%. Their claim is something like
5Gbps thru the box (using all ports at the same time). It was a pretty
impressive box for the price.
Travis
Microserv
Mark Nash wrote:
I've wondered how those powerouters performed. It would be nice to have a
Linux-based 1u 8 or 12 port router that we could run either Mikrotik or
StarOS on . My preference would be StarOS.
Mark Nash
UnwiredWest
78 Centennial Loop
Suite E
Eugene, OR 97401
541-998-5555
541-998-5599 fax
http://www.unwiredwest.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Intel-based 4-port Fast Ethernet Card - StarOS
After swapping
DoM, RAM, power supply and even the motherboard it turned out to be a bad
MikroTik RB44 NIC. Granted this is the first time I've ever seen a RB44
completely halt a MT router from booting, but it happened.
Me too :D
Over the last few months, I've had all manner of weird problems with
Mikrotik's RB44G NICs. One of them kept locking up a bandwidth shaper -
which, unfortunately, was connected at such a point in my network as to
kill off a whole bunch of customers until someone drove up to the office
and hard-powercycled it.
While I replaced RAM, motherboards, and even obscure things like PCI riser
cards, I never replaced the NIC, because that's one of those things you
just don't expect to go bad. Or at least if it does, it'll just stop
working completely and not be weirdly intermittent.
A second RB44G had one dud port out of the box. :(
I recently replaced that system with one of Dennis Burgess' PowerRouter 1U
rackmount devices, which includes seven Intel Pro1000 gigabit network
ports. Those ports alone are probably half the price of the unit. It's a
bit overkill for my needs, honestly, but it hasn't so much as hiccuped.
(In all fairness I've only had it deployed for about a week and a half,
but that's already longer than my home-built system with the RB44G NIC was
running between total lockups.)
David Smith
MVN.net
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