The routerboard 500 have 32meg ram.
How many users can manage with access server of pppoe?.
can i increment the ram??
M.
Probably 1000 or more, but we will have to test it. PPPoE in v2.9 is remade a bit.
John
Is this with or without MPPE encryption? How many concurrent PPPoE connections with MPPE-128 should this RB500 support?
We use RouterOS 2.8.x on a P4 w/ 512 MB RAM as an access concentrator, it does only PPPoE termination, for about 100 concurrent users (all with MPPE) memory consumption is around 220 MB, CPU usage is usually bellow 10%…, how does this relate to the fact that RB500 has only 32 MB. Is RouterOS 2.9 more memory efficient when it comes to PPPoE termination or?
I am also interested in this answer. I have purchased a few of these boxes. They seem very slick. But it does seem strange that they have 32MB of RAM. Is the 2.9 kernel just that much more effecient? Anyway, CPU power and the nice 3 eth ports seem to indicate that we can use this box for heaveir applications. If we do happen to need more RAM, is there a RAM module upgrade?
Eric
I use a similar configuration on our towers, using Intel motherboards with RB532 clients… RAM or not, I can tell you that I tried this configuration on a RB532, and it just doesn’t have the power to encrypt/decrypt the data in real time for anymore than a few clients at a time with any decent bandwidth…
Also, the only way to expand system RAM is by adding memory modules to the system’s Direct Memory Access bus, and this is not available at any expansion port on the RB532. A modified version of the RouterOS could probably be written to use a RAM card in the CF slot in a paging fashion, but it would be much slower than system RAM. I recall someone asking here why they would buy a RB230 when they could buy a RB532, and the reply was one word: “expandability”…
Hitek
Which perfomance has RB for simple tasks such as plain routing, bridging, maybe BGP?
Excelent
it’s work very good
1-) Any actual numbers will be very helpful. Such as “routing: 1M packets per second, 1G bytes per second; 1000 simultaneous hotspot users, 500 PPPoE unencrypted connections and makes coffee for admin”
I’d like the coffee part, too 
Please use v2.9.11 and send a supout file to support when you see this problem.
John