Which performs better at routing?
Hi
Looking for a router for a fiber connection. Out of the RB850Gx2 and hex would the hEX be faster routing due to support for Fast path? I’m looking at the 64 byte tests and the hEX seems to have double the speed of the 850, it would have been interesting to know what it would have been if it had support.
http://routerboard.com/RB850Gx2
http://routerboard.com/RB750Gr2
Thanks
rb850gx2 not support Fast path. I think that explains everything
It is not that the 850Gx2 doesnt supports fast-path, its that the tests were done before fast-path support was in RouterOS.
(since 850Gx2 is an older product then hEX - and MikroTik apparently didnt update the test results on the 850Gx2 page)
850Gx2 fully supports fast path, and will always be quite a bit faster then hEX.
unfortunately you are not correct RB850Gx2 doesn’t have fast-path support.
And it is not listed in this page:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path
And it is not old product, now it is shipping with encryption acceleration CPU and is very good solution for IPSec setups.
In general purpose usage i would use hEX, or wait for RB3011.
Yes, you are completely right
With the new version rb850gx2 I got IPSEC speed 150+150Mbps (rx+tx), unlike the old version 50+50mbit
I think this is a very good result (150+150=300 in sum) IPSEC performance.
if you only take in count fast path scenarios go for hEx
but in mi case i always use firewall mangle queue tree and simple queues because that i will prefer the 850gx2 because it has more processing power and ipsec performance
the problem today is that 850gx2 price its colliding with upcoming rb3011