FYI, Mikrotik makes a whole line of actual switches called the CRS line... These are switches with a smaller/weaker RouterOS CPU/Processor...
Perfectly good for line rate switching, and a small amount of Routing (management ? ) Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] > From: "Colton Conor" <[email protected]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 3:25:15 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] MDU Ethernet Switch > Daniel, > What functions would I want in RouterOS that are no in SwOS for this > application? Can RouterOS devices be turned into a switch, and operate at full > line speed rates? 1 Gbps in and out? > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Dan Harling < [email protected] > wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Colton Conor < [email protected] > >> wrote: >> > - At Least 1 SFP fiber uplink port. 2 would be nice for daisy chaining, but >> > not required. >> > - 4 to 8 Copper Gigabit Ports. I don't need POE output power on these >> > ports. >> > - SNMP For remote monitoring >> > - CLI or some sort of web based remote management >> > - Temperature Hardened or able to be in a hot attic >> > - Some sort of L2 port isolation or private vlans where other subscribers >> > can see each other. All traffic goes in and out of uplink >> > - Rate limiting for each individual port >> > - Full duplex speed and wireline switching is preferred. >> > - We be nice to be remotely powered using PoE in, but not required. Might >> > be >> > hard however to get power to the attic or side of building. >> > So far, options that come to mind are: >> > https://routerboard.com/RB260GS for $36. Looks like a good option, but not >> > sure about SwitchOS. Worried Mikrotik won't continue to improve switchOS. >> > Feature set seems limited. Not sure about port isolation options? Says it >> > support Poe-In for power. Temp range looks good. No CLI. >> There have been several updates to SwOS over the past couple years >> (currently at 1.17), but I would recommend a 2011, 3011, or CRS--all >> of which run RouterOS--over a SwOS device. ROS has far, far more >> features that you would want to have in this situation. (I only use >> SwOS for passive PoE distribution: RB260GSP.) >> Daniel Harling <>< >> Engineering, Cape Ann Communications >> 183 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 >> 978-879-7744 (cell) >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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