So my stuff arrived yesterday and it seems to be working really well! I have 2x RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN, one for my home automation and one for testing purposes.
If anyone has any questions about it, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.
One question I remember being asked is how big the internal flash storage is. Sadly it’s only 64MB. It comes half full with about 30MB left of free space. Of course you can expand it using the USB port.
I made a picasa album with some (phone) photo’s I’ve taken. If anyone wants some close up pictures of some part I can make them. The album can be found here.
Small update from myself. Did some performance testing doing usenet downloads. So basically using NAT’ted internet.
My internet line is 120Mbit down and when pulling the full 120Mbit the CPU load of the RB2011 is between 50% and 60%. So it can easily handle that. Hopefully that gives users that wish to use it as an internet gateway an idea of what the maximum performance will be.
Well, that’s a hard one. Currently (as far as I have been able to tell) it’s only useful for measuring throughput and other stats of the interfaces. Navigation is quite confusing, I’ll have to look up the wiki page on that.
But mostly the fact that my router is stuffed away in a closet upstairs and I basically never go there makes it a bit of a “nice to have” but not really useful feature (At least for me). If it would hang in my living room I would find it very awesome.
The LCD itself and the graphics are actually of pretty good quality! Better then I was expecting at least. I’ll try and snap a few shots of it tomorrow with the screens available and post them here.
I can imagine if you have to manage a lot of mikrotik equipment and when you get to a site and want to login and need to know the IP, if they would enable it to have a sort of pincode and then show some interface IP numbers, etc. that could be quite useful.
So it all really depends on your situation and what features they are going to enable with it. I believe this is their first router with the LCD so I’m sure features will expand with future software releases.
You know, the 2011 boards have quickly become my favorite router board and I am currently using them at all my towers (yay for more ports over a gl and metal case ftw) but I’ll be darned that it bugs me the led’s dont flash! Call me weird but when I see a piece of networking gear without blinking lights, it automatically makes me think something isn’t working..
I’m trying to figure out what kind of cable/adaptor I will need to connect a RB/2011 to an APC UPS so that I can monitor the UPS at the tower(s).
To connect to most of the APC cables (USB Type A plug to RJ-45) I would probably need a micro-USB B to USB Type A receptacle. I haven’t been able to find such a cable in 30 minutes of googling.
So far, this RB looks like more trouble to use for USB UPS monitoring than the RB493Gs we have been using/soldering. I keep wondering if MikroTik means for the USB to be used as a console port.
Bah, I just found where Normis has already mentioned that it is basically intended as a USB console port, mass storage and 3g modem utilization to come. I presume RouterBoard will have to build the cable, or USB hub for that.
I believe a standard USB OTG cable should do the trick. There you can plug in your standard USB plug. Mikrotik chose for this standard probably because it’s smaller, further then that I don’t really know either, normal USB is fine. It has also become the default european standard for phones, but since it won’t accept a charge from a standard charger, I don’t see the use in using this plug either.
So if your USB monitoring worked on a RB493Gs, it should work just fine on this one as well.
Sorry, it took me a little bit to get back to you with the spectrum analyzer graphs. I have included them as attachments, I did not know which graph you wanted so I included them all except for “graph” because that one seemed more realtime to me.
Hopefully this is what you needed, if not, let me know!
This one is easily findable but I will awnser none the less. You even provided the link with the most info yourself? Read!
This model has no direct CPU ports.
Wifi is connected through PCI-E.
The 5 Gigabit ports are connected through a CPU port.
And the 5 100Mbit ports are also connected through a gigabit CPU port.
So 2 switch chips inside. That’s it. Well there is also USB, but well, that’s connected using a USB chip to the CPU or maybe the CPU has logic onboard for it.
“Atheros8327 is present on RB2011 series(ether1-ether5+sfp1) + Atheros8227 is present on RB2011 series(ether6-ether10).” For the features, see the link you provided.
I saw this mate. I’ve just wondered if i want to use The 5 Gigabit ports like a gigabit switch and would be CPU fully loaded from traffic between gigabit ports. Could you test for me - if you try to copy something big /Blue Ray ISO etc./ between two machines attached to gigabit ports - what is RB2011’s cpu utilization and what is the speed reached . And finally can usb operate via usb hub - I’m planning to connect on RB2011 apc ups, flash drive for extra storage and 3G modem.
That depends on how you configure your device. If all five gigabit ports are in a single switch group then CPU will see the whole group as a single port and L2 switching between these ports will be done in HW.
Ah, ok, that’s a fine question then, I just did not understand it that way.
Yes, the switch chips works as designed and all traffic that goes through it does not cause CPU load.
My current configuration is as follows:
GbitPort 1 : WAN Uplink (120/10)
GbitPort 2 : LAN in house
GbitPort 3 : ESXserver (with 16TB of data stores)
4&5 free
100MbitPort 1t/m4 : free
100MbitPort 5 : Omnitik 5Ghz AP
It’s configured without bridges, all is routed between Omnitik and network for instance. Further GbitPort2 is configured as ‘Master port’ so in Gbitport 3, 4 and 5 you select that GbitPort2 is the Master port. This configures it in such a way that the switch chip will handle the traffic.
I can confirm from testing with iperf of file copies that the traffic does indeed flow through the switch chip and does not cause CPU load.
If you wish the CPU to handle the traffic you can create a brdige between selected ports. That way you can manipulate the traffic that goes through it which you cannot using the switch.
