On 7/3/10 12:22 PM, Mike wrote:
Alan Bryant wrote:
I haven't seen much traffic on this list about Mikrotik or RouterOS, but I thought it was worth a shot as a last ditch effort to get this going.
Does anyone know of a solution to connect a POS OC-3 to a router running Mikrotik's RouterOS? I have searched google extensively with varying phrases and nothing helpful comes out of it.
Mikrotik is great at lower end stuff where you have ethernet interfaces. Real POS OC-3 however, ain't in it's repertory and would not be what I would choose to route at those interfaces/speeds. However, if you must 'connect mikrotik to oc-3', you might as well find yourself a cisco router of some kind with a PA-POS-OC3 card and use it as a simple modem. Of course, for the price, you might as well just let the cisco do what you're planning on doing with the Mikrotik and get orders of magnitude of functionality and stability out of it in the process.
That's what I was going to say. ;) Once you reach SONET land you're no longer playing in the "everything is Ethernet" playground that they specializes in. I would say that you've outgrown your Mikrotik routers if you need SONET interfaces and it's time to forklift into a Cisco or Juniper. ~Seth