I’m wanting to upgrade to V3.X of MT. I have an existing 2ghz AMD based router with 2.9.50 running. It’s my core router and handles 500-600 simple queues, and about a dozen mangle and firewall rules. I run about 20mbs max through it. CPU is normally 10 to 20%.
My question is do you think a RB493AH would be powerful enough for say 600-700 simple queues, a few dozen firewall rules and 20-40mbs total throughput? Or should I be looking at a RB1000. I really like the RB493AH, as it has 9 ethernet ports (I could use more then the 4 included on the RB1000), and it’s a lot less expensive..
I like the idea of PCQ and have looked at them some. One thing I hate to loose is the ability to quickly look at who is using our bandwidth. With everyone having their own simple queue it’s really nice for troubleshooting connection problems and finding bandwidth hogs or virus infected customers. With PCQ, while the configuration is easier, it seems I would loose the ability to monitor our network utilization on a per customer basis, like I can with simply queues.
My 500+ simple queues are working fine in 2.9.50 on a AMD 2ghz machine. My question is do you think they will continue to work fine on a RB493AH? What about a RB1000, is it up to the task or should i stick with a PC based system?
sandman, why do you want to do that? PC is still much more powerfull.
I find routerboards a great hardware, but if you really need strong router, than PC is the only option. My main router is P4D 3GHz with 6 NIC’s (both PCI-E and PCI) and my main wireless router is Core2Duo 2.4GHz with 5 wifi cards. Otherwise, I have plenty routerboards, but for lower traffic and less firewall stuff.
I decided to NOT use a routerboard for my core router. I ordered a couple DELL PowerEdge servers, with dual 3.4ghz xeon processors. Going to put a SATA flash drive in them and a 4 port RB44GV PCI card. When I’m done, I should have a very high powered 6 port router.
The reason I was looking at Routerboards, like the RB1000, was I figured RouterOS must run good on them, since they make both. Shouldn’t be any weird hardware comppatiblity problems, like you could have with a custom X86 based PC. My current AMD 2ghz PC running 2.9.50 router os, reboots randomly “without proper shutdown” and has done this since I built it. Reboots, about once a day on average. I’ve just lived with it, since it’s down less then 30 seconds when it does this. Hopefully that nasty habbit is gone with these new servers and Version 3.17.
As I said, I have two main PC routers and I have some more PC base stations (used Compaq P III machines) and I don’t have random reboots on any. You maybe have some hardware problem there.
Regarding compatibility, you should be carefull with upgrades. When new release comes out, just wait for few days or a week and see what problems others have with the new version and then try it if it is OK.
i have a similar problem with my Core router PC which reboots almost every day once. It is really a problem for my hotpsot users as they are not able to loggin immdiatley as the radius server takes time before it recognises that that the users have been thrown offline thus they get the message you are already logged in access denied. i did an upgrade to 3.17 and still looks good no reboots
George Midia
Midia Data Links
I’m not sure if your PC based router is a single CPU/single core processor or multi cpu/multi-core, but you should try running on a single processor/core by specifying multi-cpu = no. It fixed my random reboot/freezes I was having on my new PowerEdge SC1420’s running version 3.17. I’m only able to use one processor currently, but one 3.4ghz Xeon seems to be plenty for my current traffic and application.