Wanted to asked some of you with experience about options for network setup. Currently I have rb750r3 setup in bridge mode with a vpn and some basic port forwarding and ddns. I have 7 network HP switches mostly 24 port and a 48 port. 2 are daisy chained unavoidably, the rest go back to my 24 port switch which I am using as a core switch and then one port connected from core switch to my LAN on rb750. My question is I am looking at RB4011 as I have gig ISP PPPoE. I tried hooking my switches back to rb750 (bridge mode) as the core but it was a bit slow on file transfers plus other stuff vpn, 1 gig download etc. Would the RB4011 ease the pain and replace my core switch or should I still use the Rb4011 with just 1 port connected back to my HP core switch? I’m no expert so am doing my best going around in circles in googleland.
Is this an office environment ? You have an idea on the traffic-levels of your current coreswitch ?
Obviously if you make the RB4011 “coreswitch” it will be seeing a lot of ethernet-traffic between the several downstream switches apart from handling the 1Gbps PPPoE + some firewall + VPN
The RB is in essence a ROUTER-board, while other products like CRS (Cloud Router SWITCH) will probably pack more power in the switching part…
The RB4011 has 2 switch-groups (Realtek RTL8367) which each have 2.5Gbps interconnect to the CPU. You perhaps want to connect your HP downstream switch wisely to avoid too much traffic passing from 1 switch-group to another through the CPU if/where possible.
Now RB4011 is a 4-core 1.4Ghz / 1GB RAM platform while your RB750 is only 1-core 400Mhz / 64MB RAM…BIG difference.
So yes/no … bit depending on your LAN traffic patterns … if your current uplinks to the L2-core today are heavily loaded this will also eat away resources of the RB4011.
Thank you for taking time to give a comprehensive answer. I have read loads of stuff on the internet but as usual it chase your tail time. So you are enforcing the basics of what I have read. let the core switch do its job and let the router do its job. I am still going to get the RB4011 anyway I think. I wish it looked like the RB3011. The RB3011 looks CAF but the RB4011 although more powerful does look a bit gay. I hope they bring an RB5011 out with a full width chasis and some flashing lights and stuff.
Time to start reading about routing and L2/L3 stuff.
Sorry, I forgot to answer your question, no it’s at home but have outbuildings and garden wired in cat 6, have over 30 IP cams and a couple of workstations, NAS unraid, T320, 5 gaming consoles, 4 laptops, tablets where ever I look, 7 TV’s, 4 PC’s, Video editing workstation and DAW so can get a bit tight on 1 gig LAN. When they bring out a reasonably priced 10 Gig switches out I will upgrade as have over 1.5km of cat 6 infrastructure. I went a bit too far with the cat6 TBH but once you start pulling 4 runs to each room and then realise you need another 4 when you decide to move furniture it soon adds up. I really need to VLan some stuff and subnet some stuff as nearly out of ips on 192.168. Can’t face doing it but suppose I should really.
