I just checked CIsco's "Cisco Integrated Services Routers—Performance Overview" from 2010, and indeed it is really nice, showing how different features in semi-realistic test conditions affect performance. And it nicely shows that even high end routers that could route 8Gbps of traffic, wi...

Right I heard that complex HTB queueing, traffic shapping and qos, with additional use of ipmarks, or complex matching, doesn't scale very well in mikrotik/routeros, and probably not much better in the Linux kernel either. I was doing that on Linux boxes in the past (almost 15 years ago), but that w...

+10 for UDP

+0.5 for LZO/LZ4/Snappy which are supported by OpenVPN

M.2 means there should be PCIe support on the board. This would make the device more complicated and expensive. We would pay $50 more for an m.2 slot. I personally would love to see m.2 or msata slots on the CRS too. Me too. Main reason I still use PC heavily is squid proxy and some other caches fo...

BTW. Another reason for CCR over PC, is that it have a built in SFP and few more ports, so I can connect my fiber connection directly, instead of using external media converter or connect to my backup network provider with automatic failover, but really even CCR with just 3-4 RJ45 ports would be eno...

Hi, I am happy long time user of three RB493G boards, acting as WiFi access points, but also as SNAT/DNAT boxes and simple firewalls, and some GRE tunneling boxes. I just found out, that I cannot do more than 250Mbps one way NAT (Masquerading) on it, without hitting 100% CPU. Even removing all the f...