Going above 1Gbps - should I replace my router?

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hi,
I currently have an RB4011 router on my rack and recently my ISP said they have provided 1.2Gbps bandwidth. So, I am considering replacing the RB4011 with CCR2004 because I’m having some configuration trouble with the RB4011’s LAG feature, and apparently the ISP’s modem is only with an RJ45 2.5GBps port so I need to use the SFP+ port on my RB4011, and I have to use link aggregation on other 1Gbps ports to provide downlink to my 10G switch. However, with 4 ports LAG, I do see the RB4011’s CPU spikes up to about 50% usage when the download speed is near 850Mbps. Is there any necessity to replace the RB4011 with CCR2004 on this?

Thanks.

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Just get a CRS305 and use router-on-a-stick to give you 3 SFP+ ports to do anything with.

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Yep, connecting everything through a 10GbE switch and router-on-a-stick config on rb4011 sounds like the way to go.

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Actually, the 2.5G copper module will use one SFP+ slot on the switch, the 10Gb DAC cable will use another SFP+ slot (e.g. connect RB4011 with CRS305). That leaves only two free SFP+ slots on the switch, and 10 one gig copper ports on the RB4011 (on two different switch chips). This would be a very cost effective solution.

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CRS305 is a switch not a router. What makes you think it’s meant for routing Gig+ traffic?

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@OP

Make sure you get the new model, not the old one: https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_16g_2s_

Get SFP+ input from the ISP (Even if it’s PON, ask for SFP+ ONT device), then, of course, you can then LAG multiple ethernet ports for your LAN.

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…in the proposed scenario it will be used as a switch, not as a router…ISP 2.5G-port will be passed via the CRS305 by means of a VLAN/port “tunnel” on to the RB4011
…like @nagylzs already posted above

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… And if you don’t like the router-on-a-stick solution suggested above…

Sounds you are perfect candidate for newly released https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009ug_s_in
1* 10Gbit SFP+
1* 2.5Gbit RJ45
7* 1Gbit RJ45

And instead of crappy Realtek, which is in RB4011 and can’t even HW offload VLANs, all these ports are connected via fancy marvell switch chip (other chips of the same family powering CRS models)

btw. according to specs, this switch chip supports both L3 HW offload as well as 802.1br port extender. If implemented by Mikrotik, this would allow virtual stacking of the RB5009 with CRS3xx models.