I need to vent about 2.9 and figure out if anyone else out there is having the same problems. We have been using the system since 2.6 days on varying types of hardware and it has been rock solid. We use it for bandwidth management/firewall/wireless AP/PPPoE server. We have used it on RB200’s/Old PC’s/wrap boards. Once again all works great, rock solid, solid equipment.
Now comes along the rb500 and 2.9 For me this has been nothing but a disaster. We bought 2-RB500 boards and 2-SR2 radios when the first came out to setup a new WPOP. The thing NEVER worked correctly, we would have customers not associate/speed problems/queue problems/etc. Finally after screwing around with the 2 - RB500’s and SR2 radios and other mini-pci radio and version 2.9 and some PC’s - I finally gave up this week and just set the site up on an old PC using version 2.8.28. So far everything seems to be running fine.
I figued I would do something safe with the old useless RB500 and set it up as a firewall. Well it ran great for 2 days with no rules in it, but as soon as I started adding rulles it now crashes. I am forwarding over the rif file generate by the crash. Hopefully support will get me the answers.
Anyone else having these problems? I do have first generation RB500 boards, are these really stable or should I just trash them?
Any ideas?
Thanks for letting me vent and rant. I do love the product, but need to know why these boards or v2.9 are bad.
been on board since v.2.6–implemented v2.7 (Wisp) upgraded to v2.8.28 (PC&Wrap) one year ago in production and use v2.9.13 (PC)for testing…
I would like to try RB100 as CPE,but waiting a little longer..
I too love the product , but learned you have to pic the right platform and version.
We’ve just recived 6 RB112’s about a week ago and have been using them - The routerboard platform as a whole is very stable and very good but what see alot of issues around the RB come from power problems, 12v 1.2amps non-PoE would see the routerboard turn on but whenever we tried to turn the radio on it would crash, a move to 12v 1.5amps saw us able to turn the radio on but when it was in use the RB would become unstable. We are currently sourcing 24v 2.5 amp Power packs for PoE but 12v 2amp runs the RB112 + R52 runs flawlessly.
On top of this the SuperRange series of cards draw an INSANE amount of power so i would consider 24v 3amp MIN for a RB5xx with an SR2 card in it. Everybody had/is having issues with SR cards and any SBC platforms, hell it made WRAP put out another revision just to be able to support the card.
I think alot of people underestimate the power needed for SBC’s and underpower them - then complain when they dont run or dont run stable
we use RB500’s with single SRx cards and dual SRx cards with the standard 48V PoE supplied by wisp-router and haven’t had any issues. I think those PoE’s put out 0.5 - 1 amp…
We have run into issues with the SR2’s and older first generation CPE devices that use older prism chipsets constantly reassociating and losing conneciton.. Mainly the old tranzeo and zcomax lines put out in 2002-2003..
Also out of the 75 or so RB500’s I have deployed I’ve only run into 1 board that I had to RMA due to a faulty ethernet port.
We’ve also just recieved 2 RB100’s and I’m anxious to start testing those boards.
For me this has been nothing but a disaster. We bought 2-RB500 boards and 2-SR2 radios when the first came out to setup a new WPOP. The thing NEVER worked correctly, we would have customers not associate/speed problems/queue problems/etc. Finally after screwing around with the 2 - RB500’s and SR2 radios and other mini-pci radio and version 2.9 and some PC’s - I finally gave up this week and just set the site up on an old PC using version 2.8.28. So far everything seems to be running fine.