Out of all the network hardware I have worked on in operations these were by far some of the worst. I read lots of good things but like most things in life these just dont stack up against a Cisco or Juniper for stability and reliability. Most of the ISP's I have worked with were HSD but i also followed the progression path in the industry so i have time with Dial Up, ADSL/X/...,WISP's, Data Centers etc. and FTTH I generally only see these in WISP's and some DSL installs. Never anything with huge traffic load and full tables. Generally always driven by the cost factor alone without regard to much else imho. But that's just my experience. However maybe there are people that have managed to keep these up and handle all you have requested. just my 2c On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Dennis Burgess <dmburgess@linktechs.net>wrote:
We have many with full routing tables. Load balancing, works fine, I have one site with 8 DSL lines doing balancing across them. We typically don't use a GRE tunnel, but OpenVPN or IPSEC work great.
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-----Original Message----- From: matt kelly [mailto:mjkelly@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 8:41 AM To: Raymond Burkholder Cc: NANOG list Subject: [SPAM]RE: Mikrotik Cloud Core Router and BGP real life experiences?
They can not handle a full routing table. The load balancing doesn't work. They can not properly reassemble fragmented packets, and therefore drop all but the first "piece". They can not reliably handle traffic loads over maybe 200 Mbps, we needed 4-6 Gbps capacity. They can not hold a gre tunnel connection.
On Dec 27, 2013 9:07 AM, "Raymond Burkholder" <ray@oneunified.net> wrote:
My real world experience with these is that they suck. Plain and simple. Don't waste your time.
Would you mind elaborating what you were trying to accomplish and what failed?
Thank you.
Ray
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