One for the MikroTik dorks

Steveocee · 2 Dec 2015 at 17:02

Just noticed the new RB3011 on the Routerboard website;
http://routerboard.com/RB3011UiAS-RM

Needless to say I've spoken with a UK distributor who have taken stock of said item today so have placed my order!

Buzzing as I nearly ordered the 2011 last week but didn't due to not having enough Gigabit ports on it. Really impressed with the beefed up CPU.

philip2009 · 5 Dec 2015 at 01:41

Interesting thread here - https://www.reddit.com/r/mikrotik/comments/3v0ory/rb3011_product_page_is_finally_up/

So no crypto-acceleration ... I'm currently using a Celeron N3150 - 1.6-2GHz, four core, with AES-NI acceleration. That fanless motherboard/CPU came in about £70.

Caged · 5 Dec 2015 at 01:58

I wish Mikrotik would bung someone a few quid to not make their product look like cheap crap

Steveocee · 5 Dec 2015 at 08:57

Caged said:
I wish Mikrotik would bung someone a few quid to not make their product look like cheap crap

I don't think they look that bad in all fairness. Mine arrived yesterday so I'll get some pics up later.

The cheap look is kind of quirky.

bledd · 5 Dec 2015 at 09:02

After being hesitant at first, I'm only ever buying Ubiquiti or MikroTik going forwards.

MikroTik do love their crazy product naming schemes

Steveocee · 5 Dec 2015 at 16:45

Got it!

Very happy with it, did some iperf earlier and I'm easily getting gigabit over a software bridge (through the CPU) from switch-chip 1 to switch-chip 2! Very impressed with that.

Interestingly though the switch-chips have 2Gb pathways to the CPU but it is shared with the SFP so when active switch-chip 2 only has 1GB pathway. Bit of a shame as I was going to connect my CRS to this with the direct SFP link module but now aren't due to it limiting in this way.

Config was a dream (copied most of the RB2011 config over) and it's ready to go in (bar some final tweaks that need doing). It does have a different "beep" on startup though to any other MikroTik I've used.

Caged · 5 Dec 2015 at 19:41

Now you get to play Latvian quality assurance roulette

Steveocee · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:55

Caged said:
Now you get to play Latvian quality assurance roulette

Oh dear how right you have been. Slight update on the RB3011 situation, it behaved relatively well until a week ago and I started seeing some weird logs, lots of collision and multicast on ALL interfaces and at points 25Gb (yes that much) traffic over ports that are not even connected.

Currently running on a hAP lite to ensure it's not just my network genuinely having a loop but I'm fairly sure it hasn't.

Returning it will go!

The question is, do I push the retailer for a replacement RB3011 or a Ubiquiti Edgerouter PoE with a RM case?

Illusion · 14 Feb 2016 at 18:37

Steveocee said:
Oh dear how right you have been. Slight update on the RB3011 situation, it behaved relatively well until a week ago and I started seeing some weird logs, lots of collision and multicast on ALL interfaces and at points 25Gb (yes that much) traffic over ports that are not even connected.

Currently running on a hAP lite to ensure it's not just my network genuinely having a loop but I'm fairly sure it hasn't.

Returning it will go!

The question is, do I push the retailer for a replacement RB3011 or a Ubiquiti Edgerouter PoE with a RM case?

Sounds obvious but did you make sure the mikrotik is on the latest version of routerOS as they seem to love putting out buggy software

Steveocee · 14 Feb 2016 at 18:52

Illusion said:
Sounds obvious but did you make sure the mikrotik is on the latest version of routerOS as they seem to love putting out buggy software

Yep, tried both stable and rc as well as a factory reset on each.