I was about to deploy an RB450 as a router to an OOB management network where rock solid stability is a must. I will throw this RB450 in the trash and use another thing.
- Beta testing in a production environment is not for me.
- Reading a thread on a forum to determine if a stable version is really stable is not for me. It takes time. Time is money. With this development pattern MK is not that cheap.
Alternatives? I will be using pfSense on an ALIX board for this situation. For everything else: Cisco. It's expensive but it works! They publish firmware updates with small changes and they tell exactly what has been changed. The software version I am using in my ASAs is 8.4.7(22). They will stop providing corrections for the 8.4 line in March, 2016. This is 18 months away. This kind of information is required for a production environment. I don't understand MikroTik. I really don't.
Cheers,
Miguel
Hello Folks!
We had to give up on MT devices in some situations due to two things, policy based routing and l2tp tunnels could not pass more than some megabyte of data till they simply stopped passing traffic. The lt2p MT devices is stuck in RoS6.7, which in our case is very many devices at all customer and company side offices.
The policy based rotuing devices where replaced with ASA5510, which works like a charm since years back. We do not like to be stuck in low versions, neither do we like to use the very big power consuming ASA5510 and catalysts switches, which also is expensive to buy and keep, but they do work.
However we have a success story with all MT wireless devices, they saved our company wireless business. The same goes for CRS 125 switches, they have been successfully implemented on our datacenter and replacing older cisco switches, but they do lack one cruical function and that is spanning tree, which makes them impossible to build redundant layer 2 network. For that we still uses cisco and hp switches.
But who knows, in some future even MT will fix policy based routing and that l2tp tunnel bug and implement spanning tree in CRS 125 swiches.
Overall, without Mikrotik devices, our company had been out of business years ago!