Hello everyone,
after a few successfull projects with MT750G boards (and great help of this forum 
), I’m currently looking for a 12-16port layer 3 router. I had a LANCOM or Zyxel modell in mind, but then I thought, why not look for a MikroTik device.
The RB1100 or RB1200 look quite interesting, 1000mbit ethernet, Layer 3 functionality shouldn’t be a problem with RouterOS, 10-13 ports are enough for me right now.
Anyone has experience in using the MT boards for a purpose like that? I have to compare switching capacity though, I’m not sure how fast the MT’s can go.
Thanks in advance,
best regards
Be carefull, it’s not really a level 3 switch, more a routeur with hardware switching capabilities on some chosen ports (number of hardware “L2 switch” you can have depending of the RB model).
See the this wiki page: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Switch_Chip_Features.
It may be sufficient for some use cases, but maybe not all (datacenter like).