I’m looking at purchasing a MikroTik™ v2.9 Router Software installed on an IDE Flash Module.
I’m hoping to use the router to Packet Shape a 20Mbit Leased Line and was wondering if anyone can tell me whether the RouterOS will allow me to do what I need?
I’m looking to ‘split’ the 20Mbps Leased Line to two seperate networks.
Ideally I would like for the RouterOS software to be transparent from an IP point of view?
I would like to have 10Mbps available to one network and 10Mbps to the other, a simple 50/50 split over all protocols.
We have a Class C IP Range which we will Subnet into two /25 Ranges. So would like to apply 50% bandwidth to each of the subnets.
The RouterOS device will be placed after our Cisco Router and will have three network connections, one for the Leased Line and one for each of the networks.
Is this possible?
Would we be better off using a RouterBoard with the RouterOS on a CompactFlash Card, or an Intel/AMD based server running RouterOS?
Apologies for all the questions and thank you for your help,
Miles Esterson.
Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls.
Elstree - Hertfordshire, UK.
Thank for your reply, I almost thought no-one was gonna reply to me heh,heh
Thanks for the advice, I’m glad to know that it will do the job I want, I don’t suppose you or anyone else know whether I can use it with a Dual Processor Motherboard with a single processor installed? I’m thinking of a Xeon 3Ghz with 1Gb of Ram… Is it necessary or useful to have a secondary hard disk installed for writing data to? I’m going to be using the Flash IDE ‘card’ as the primary.
We use a number of MikroTik routers and whilst not being lucky enough to have quite 20 meg to play with (er learn with) I can assure you that a MikroTik will do what you want. Seems a bit of a waste just to use it for bandwidth control.
We put the OS onto Compaq SFF machines either straight onto the Hard drive, Compaq flash or a IDE flash drive. I’m sure something like a 500MHz cpu would be fine too. Have also been testing a RouterBoard 532 which is a mighty little bit of kit.
It will not use dual cpu btw
PM me if you need to find a UK supplier. (not me;))
Thanks for the info, I’d like to pm you to find some uk supplier. Maybe it’s just me, but I cant find/see the pm options
The main reason for wanting to over specifiy the hardware is because it’s feasible that longer term we may upsize to a 100Mbps connection.
I know that the router can provide far more than simply packet shaping, and hopefully we will use more features in the future…
I read somewhere that it won’t work with a Dual CPU, so thanks for confirming that, but will it work with a Dual CPU motherboard with a single CPU installed?
