4.17:
fixed RB1100 ether11,12,13 and RB800 ether3 resetting problem;

Does this fix the port lockup issues with RB1100 I keep hearing about? Is the RB1100 safe to deploy now?

I want to deploy a RB1100 as a port based VLAN switch replacement. Port 1 will be uplink all other ports will only be allowed to talk to port one. I plan on doing this using Bridging. Something like 12 bridge groups with port 1 a member of each with only one other port in each group. How much traffic can the RB1100 push in a role like this? Full Gbps on port one? Would it be more efficient to just use VLAN's?

A router is always going to be a poor replacement for a switch. If you need a switch, use a switch. The RB1100 has a built in switch chip set that bundles ports 1-5 and 6-10, between them there is only a 1 gig pipeline. Software bridging will perform poorly. It is possible the chip set will do what you want, but throughput between ports 1-5 and 6-10 will very most likely not be line speed.

I have looked here:

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Sw ... p_Features

Suppose I have a PPPoE server on port one so I want all other ports to be only allowed to talk to port one and not each other. How do I do this with switchOS? Seems easy with bridging and rules but not sure with switching.