Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:46 pm
I've been using a RB1200 for about 9 months now in production running 5.16 and it has been reliable for us. It did reboot itself once via the watchdog for a kernel panic after about 3 months but recovered gracefully. I've got several NATed networks, VLANs, multiple DHCP servers, SNMP, several static routes, IPSEC with PPP, and firewall rules (< 50) configured. No hotspot, dynamic routing, or queue trees. On a busy day this thing can only NAT about 300Mb full duplex.
Issues/Caveats that affect this configuration:
- IPSEC latency - it's reliable, just slow
- ether9/10 have issues, so we avoid these ports (this was documented somewhere)
- Throughput is low with NAT and firewall rules (< 500Mb)
Not sure how this router would do with 6.x or even 5.26 but seems pretty happy on 5.16. I'd rate this router for what it does as perfectly usable and stable.
Hope this helps!