On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at> wrote:
On 11/11/2010 10:55 PM, Michael Loftis wrote:
I have sort of recently gone from a little netscreen 5 to a mikrotik rb750g. Happily running for about 4 months. Way more of a power user or net admin than consumer oriented device. Fast though, loads faster than the netscreen
I would recommend their products except for one thing: They have quite a few different models which experience a still-unfixed problem where the Ethernet port(s) simply go silent for 5-20 minutes and then come back all on their own (or with a reboot). Totally unacceptable, and their support forums are filled with others having the same problem *and* no confirmation of what the company is doing to fix it.
And hard to debug, I'm sure, because the problem is one of those "happens every other day for 4 days, then not again for 3 weeks" kinds of bugs.
I've never actually had that problem, and wasn't even aware of it until reading your message just now. It might be that I use the thing in a completely different manner (I've a bridge+vlan tagging setup). Being as I work from home it gets used very thoroughly so if it had had the issue I would've noticed. I'm wondering if some units are having thermal issues, seems to be a common thread/problem lately with embedded devices. Newer gen processors are starting to see thermal and PSU loads (on account of lower voltages) that haven't been dealt with much by these hardware makers. Or I could just be lucky, or my office is cooler than others. I've heard a lot of people having thermal issues with the global tech guruplug server plus wall wart units, and while the two I have do get very hot, I haven't had any crashes. But they are still way too hot for me to ever recommend them for anything. The RB750G though doesn't ever seem to warm up or anything so it's very odd that there's issues. I'm running the 4.x stable releases though too, not 5.x, I'll have to look into the forum posts on this. Good to know about!