At the moment non of modern x86 platforms supported (since H67…)
Do you plan to support H77 Z77 X79 chipsets in the very first release of ROS 6.x or we should forget about modern hardware and build our x86 based router systems on old platforms?
Thank you soo much! ) It will be very good! There are a lot of people, who want to build very own router system but at the moment ROS hardware support isn’t perfect… Especially support of integrated ethernet chipsets… Sometimes really impossible to find motherboard with supported integrated ethernet chipset, they doesn’t produced anymore, for example unsupported modern mini-ITX boards have only one slot for add-on cards what can be enough together with integrated card but useless without…
Can you tell me which integrated ethernet chipsets from Intel will be supported in ROS 6?
It will be really nice, if you, Mikrotik experts, will choose and test 1-2 most interesting (modern) and not very expensive x86 motherboards from each segment (mini-ITX, mATX, ATX, Atom integrated) and share results on the official website, so we can be really sure, that this systems completely compatible with ROS. It will really help to sell licenses for x86 platform. I understand that it’s not so profitable as selling own hardware, but will help you to bring your perfect system in each corner of the world! ))
RouterOS v6beta3 will use this kernel - “linux-3.3.5”, you could check linux community whether the chipsets are supported by the vanilla kernel of this version.
Can you confirm, that ALL chipsets supported in native vanila linux-3.3.5 will be supported in ROS 6? I mean can we hope, that nothing will be cuted off at final?
None of them working in ROS 5.17, the question was about support in ROS 6… We don’t have founds to test all possible platforms by ourself That’s why I asking you to help to make the right choice for upgrade of our hardware! We are going to move on Intel NM10 or Intel *77 platforms, but all of them have modern ethernet chipsets build in, so I want to be sure before buy!
You will have to test these in RouterOS v6beta3, and if they are not recognized with the new kernel, make a supout.rif file and send to us, we will then add support manually. So don’t worry - we can add support.
What kind? A lot of jobs… Any i3 based x86 router with ROS on board is MUCH faster than hardware solutions from Mikrotik available now…(google a bit, a lot of tests around) For example we intensive use OpenVPN tunnels and routing gigabit network on the same x86 server. We tested same configuration on RB1100AHx2 and we got much more pps on x86 system. I don’t know about performance of CCR1036, but I’m really sure, that price will be more than $400, for this money you can get perfect x86 server for ROS…
The best answer - “Why not?” )) Actually I don’t understand what a problem for you if modern chipsets will be supported?.. I understand why you don’t like x86 routers but it’s you personal choice…