I have placed an order for RB5009 to replace my RB3011. Is there any special version for ROSv7 for the same? Or should I run with the factory build image that comes preloaded? Last time I was an early adopter for RB3011 just 8 months post release I had bought it, same for this but will it be worth the upgrade?
Mine is currently running 7.1.3 with no issues.
4 interfaces in use - also a Zerotier interface.
I have a Cisco Fibre 10G SFP+ connected to a CRS328 that I did have to disable auto-negotiation and manually set the speed to 10G. I did that when I got it and it was running 7.0.5 and haven’t changed the settings since so not sure if that is still an issue anymore.
Edit - I also have an RB3011 connected to a different ISP which is just bridged to VDSL via PPPoE and did have a lot more issues with that over the years than the RB5009 so far. Port flapping etc.
“will it be worth the upgrade” ?? Well … what do you need ? If your ISP is delivering a > 1Gbps Internet connection than you might consider it a real upgrade. (altough performance on the current ROS builds is not yet super…).
I also have both RB3011 and RB5009 on 2 Internet connection. For “simple” PPPoE setup the RB5009 is very stable for months now, but my primary link is still on RB3011 on 6.4x ROS
The RB3011 is still a very capable good box.
The RB3011 has a display which is handy… The nice part about whether its “worth the upgrade”, will be your time – use the RB5009 to fiddle with V7 until your happy with it there. Then, switch the RB5009 as your main router, when ready. (And, yes you’d want to run 7.1.3, or 7.2rc4, not the 7.0.3 it comes with it)
I use VRRP a lot. Since you’d have roughly similar routers, you can could then add VRRP to your configuration to use both for redundancy if you want. V7 even sync support connection tracking for VRRP to make that a backup router work even better.
While I think I a pair of RB5009 in just 1U rackspace is kinda handy concept for a redundant setup (e.g. if you upgrade/reboot a router, internet doesn’t go down). You already have an RB3011, that seems like it make a fine “backup” one day here.