Replacing Cisco with Mikrotik

Hello,

First of all, im very new to Mikrotik and not sure this is the correct forum - but i hope someone will inform me, if im in the wrong place :slight_smile:

I want to replace my Cisco equipment at my home, with a Mikrotik router / Switch.
While being fairly new to network, i have a bunch of questions that i cant seem to find the correct answers to anywhere.

The home setup contains a Cisco ASA 5505 (Layer 3 - 5 VLANs - 30 ACLs), and a “Cisco” SG300 (Layer 2).
From my home setup i have a Site-to-Site connection to a Server site, also using a Cisco ASA 5505 as gateway.
At home i have an Hyper-V Server having a bunch of VMs.
VM-A delivers alot of data to VM-B (300Mb/s), the data stream is consistent.
Since the ASA cant handle this amount of traffic between 2 VLANs, the servers are therefor on the same VLAN today - this needs to change.

Q1:
What Mikrotik / Routerboard should i purchase? i need atleast 8 ports
The Board must be able to deliver atleast 300Mb/s between VLAN10 and VLAN 20.

Q2:
Will i be able to setup Site-to-Site VPN between the Mikrotik at Home, and the ASA 5505 at the Server Site?

Q3:
At a Cisco ASA ASDM (GUI), it is possible to get a “live” log - where you can filter on each IP address.
This is very helpfull when trying to determine, why an application wont work… Does Mikrotik support this to?


I hope someone will take the time, to answer the questions above - your time will be appreciated alot :slight_smile:
Thanks in advance! :slight_smile:

Q1: RB3011 will do this for you. (the number of ports you mentioned are GE, right?) need to set up switch config right to have wire speed in-vlan forwarding and up to 2Gbps
inter-VLAN routing.

Q2: check. every routerOS device can do this. what VPN speed are you looking for?
Q3: you can use torch on cli/winbox/webfig or packet sniffer and stream (filtered) the live stream to a wireshark capture session for further analysis.