So I have been building a pretty beefy Festival Core Router network, firstly about 98% of my traffic is all destined for the internet, basically all of it is for POS networks of streaming networks, Office Production and Ticketing type stuff. If anything the devices on these networks that do need to talk to each other do so on the same network (broadcast domain) So I pretty much started with just an Edge Router 4 and then moved ALL the way up to this stupid expensive $4k router from Netgate with PFsense. But then I discovered Mikrotik. Now I have mixed into this 3 router network a CCR2004 but the one with the 12SFP+ and 25GigSFP Ports. And it Runs great. really just does DHCP and NAT for about 2k Clients and it Runs great. But there is a VENUE we have built a great relationship with and they have an amazing infrastructure and since working with them, they have agreed to let us leave the equipment there so whenever events pop up, we are just already in their IDFs and ready to go. BUT NOW! Im left with no routers for my other events. Granted most of my other events are smaller and I dont need to go all out with routers like I have done in the past, but I still want something that can take 10 gig internet and then connect to my CRS317 for a 10 gig LAN (trunked with about 15 Vlans) Now I discovered this CCR2004-16g-2SFP+, looks great, Im hoping the CPU can still do all the same things ive been doing, 2k clients, NAT DHCP and some mangle rules to just use different ISPs if needed, what I also like is that I have some everyday Cooper ports so I dont have to mess around with Copper SFP modules, wish are great but I dont always work as needed and have weirdness that happen from time to time.
So in short I was wondering if this guy (2004-16G-SFP+) can handle the CPU load, and if me using the etherX ports for WAN and 10G for lan would present an issue. I commonly use 10g for wan and lan but for my next event I will only get (2) 1 gig copper hand offs.
Really appreciate this guys, doing my best to invest time to really learn about these things, forgive me if ive skipped any of the commonly known things to think about when choosing a router..