Hello,
I’ve recently bought two of these 1U hardware platforms and I plan to use them as main routers
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-PHF.cfm
(+ WDC RE3 HDD, 2x1GB DDR2 667MHz)
I have 2 questions:
is this hardware fully supported by RouterOS?
what about actual throughput?
(I would really appreciate if it could make about 1.5Gbit)
Since nobody has replied to my post and I have finally tested it on my own (decided to just risk few CZKs even it it won’t work),
I definitely confirm, that RouterOS 5.0rc1 works on this platform.
Nice to have Supermicro board with IPMI just in case I accidentaly cut myself off the access to the router.
About the troughput - I didn’t have time to test it yet, but if there’s somebody interested, I can post some results later.
definately interested in performance, memory leaks?, and multicpu compatibility…
to test new hardware you do not have to buy the license, you can install RouterOS with demo key that is up for 24 hours. plenty of time to test, if it is working. That is, since you already owned the hardware.
where to buy??
Signup for an account then purchase at least a Level 4 license through the site.
I would be really interested in throughput and PPS performance numbers as a nice low power alternative to the unavailable RB1100.
Does RouterOS 4.11 work, or does it have to be 5.0?
as i wrote before - if you have hardware on your hands you can try either of versions, when you are content with how version works purchase license for the key and apply license. So you avoid all the guesswork and headache 
For most purposes L4 is enough. If you want a lot of tunnels you should look at what limitations each license has, also note, that that limit is for active tunnels.
We haven’t got the hardware though 
We have tested the D510 in production and it works great with latest Version 5 release. If you are looking for a d510 based router go to balticnetworks.com, they have them available.
We have also used the Atom330 Supermicro board which also works well. If you put that together with HP NC364T, you have a powerful router.
The testing we did was with real traffic around 150Mbps/50Mbps 24k pps
If you are interested in a stable platform that you don’t have to worry about, hit http://www.mikrotkrouter.com. Plenty of options including SFP interfaces as well, and performance testing. Plus you can run v2-v5 on it, so you don’t have to run bata software if you do not wish too.
I’m using 5.0rc3 (started on 5.0rc1).
It does about 1-1.5 gigabit through, although balancing between cores isn’t perfect yet.
If there’s anybody looking for a relatively cheap way to route gigabit, I’d recommend this Supermicro.
But what gives me a headache is - maybe I could have just bought RB1100 and would have fully supported platform.
Hmmm. So next time it would be at least core2duo or simply RB1100.
What about MT 3.30 or 4.16 ?
Does it work on this hardware?
Are network cards OK?
No, it needs the newer Linux kernel (in RouterOS 5.x) for support.
Tom
Thanks Tom for answer.
That is shitty - because 5.x is not stable to put it on box that would be responsible for pppoe for 1k or 2k sessions.
Is that 100% sure that Intel 82574L NIC will not work ? I see some e1000 changes in 4.x changelog..
Not 100% sure but in my tests on the Atom D510 and D525, 4.x didn’t work and 5.x does. I have not tried the latest 4.x but it was not mentioned in the 4.x changelogs and Mikrotik does not usually go out of their way to add new support to the current stable when the beta is close to becoming the new stable.
Here are the pertinent lines from the 5.x changelogs…
What’s new in 5.0rc2 (2010-Oct-27 16:20):
*) added support for more Intel 82575/82576 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet cards;
What’s new in 5.0beta1 (2010-Mar-31 09:17):
*) updated drivers and kernel (to linux-2.6.32.5);
*) added support for multiple Intel Ethernet cards;
And 5.x is just about ready for stable so you don’t have too long to wait.
Tom
Just to make this 100% certain, after further testing I verified that ROS 4.16 does not support our Atom D510 router hardware using the Intel 82574L/82583V chip sets. ROS 5.0rc9 works great with all the ports.
The CPU works fine with both ROS versions. The Ethernet ports do not work with ROS 4.16.
Tom
Thanks Tom for testing this hardware.
I appreciate it a lot.
Anyway - we upgraded one of our BRAS serwers terminating 350 PPPoE sessions by mistake to version ROS 5.0rc7.
It was a disaster. CPU was 100% almost all the time. All interfaces were disappearing and appearing .
So i think we will wait for stable ROS 5 or just buy another NIC.
Anyway THX for testing.
if you find anything like this, ever, immediately make supout.rif file and only then downgrade