Oh so you went legit x86 instead of CHR? Josh Luthman 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:58 AM Mark - Myakka Technologies <m...@mailmt.com> wrote: > Josh, > > Did some tweaking to the IRQ stuff. These are BGP routers so majority of > traffic is limited to two ports. Did some manual assignments of CPU > instead of auto. > > Also went to multi-queue-ethernet-default as interface queue type. > > I don't think fastpath or fasttrack are supported on x86 > > > -- > Best regards, > Mark mailto:m...@mailmt.com <m...@mailmt.com> > > Myakka Technologies, Inc. > www.Myakka.com > > ------ > > Thursday, December 31, 2020, 11:44:49 AM, you wrote: > > > What kind of tweaking for greater speeds? Did you just disable > services/packages? Or did you enable fastpath? > > Josh Luthman > 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 9:53 AM Mark - Myakka Technologies < > m...@mailmt.com> wrote: > > Tushar, > > I have two that I bought back in 2015. Have the 4 port SFP+ card in it. > Using them as BGP routers taking full routes. Both have a 10G uplink to my > providers. Took a bit of tweak with MT config, but I can move 8-9 Gig of > live traffic on them if needed. Most of the time they are doing anywhere > between 2 - 5 Gig. > > Going to need another one in the near future. Debating if I want to roll > my own or just buy one from Baltic. With past performance, I'm leading on > just buying one. > > > -- > Best regards, > Mark mailto:m...@mailmt.com <m...@mailmt.com> > > Myakka Technologies, Inc. > www.Myakka.com > > ------ > > Thursday, December 31, 2020, 9:24:25 AM, you wrote: > > > Allows two, four ports SFP+ modules > > Tushar > > > > On Dec 31, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Tushar Patel <tpa...@ecpi.com> wrote: > > Has anyone tried Maxwave from Baltic networks? > > > https://www.balticnetworks.com/manufacturers/maxxwave/maxxwave-routermaxx-vengeance-8-port-gigabit-core-i7-i7-8700k-hexa-core-router > > They have bunch of cards options which can be added > > > Tushar > > > > On Dec 30, 2020, at 12:28 PM, Steven Kenney <st...@wavedirect.org> wrote: > > > Welp replacing it with a brand new 1072 with new transceivers etc lasted > about a week before it rebooted itself. > > Mikrotik basically said RMA it or it may be faulty hardware. Well I > ruled that out with a unit that came from the factory with a pretty recent > firmware. > > Mikrotik if you read this. Get off your ass and lab this up. If you are > happy dealing with residential equipment for the rest of your lives keep > doing what you are doing. If you want to move up into the enterprise level > you better get on top of this. > > > > > *STEVEN KENNEY DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY A: 158 Erie > St. N | Leamington ON E: *st...@wavedirect.org > * | P: 519-737-9283 W: *www.wavedirect.net > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Josh Baird" <joshba...@gmail.com> > *To: *"af" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:20:36 AM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations > > Fair enough. But, I have quad port x710's in many ESXi hosts (running CHR > and otherwise) - and they are completely fine. > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 8:58 AM Steven Kenney <st...@wavedirect.org> > wrote: > > I've been warned away from using the quad cards and speaking from > experience I myself have used quad ethernet cards with x86 mikrotiks in the > past with little success. All sorts of funky issues. > > I understand clearly we can use vlans and such in ESXI but I'm talking the > pure amount of traffic I'll need will be beyond the demands the bus on the > motherboard will be able to handle. I guess I really need to look at the > specs. I know PCI Express V6 can do over 100Gbps. But I'll prob use a > couple off lease Dells in its own routing cluster. > > > > > *STEVEN KENNEY DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY A: 158 Erie > St. N | Leamington ON E: *st...@wavedirect.org > * | P: 519-737-9283 W: *www.wavedirect.net > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Josh Baird" <joshba...@gmail.com> > *To: *"af" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Monday, December 21, 2020 4:03:21 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations > > The x710 has 4 SFP+ ports. You don't necessarily need dedicated physical > interfaces for each router either. Our CHR boxes have a single x710 and > several instances of CHR "sharing" the physical interfaces. We use ESXi > with a virtual switch trunking VLANs to the CHR instances. > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 3:43 PM Steven Kenney <st...@wavedirect.org> > wrote: > > Right those are 2x though for a total of 4 ports. I need more than that, > especially if I want to run more than one router on these. > > Might even consider to see if there is any support for 40Gbps cards or > whether a server's bus can handle those speeds with a card. I can > aggregate different devices on a switch instead. > > > > > *STEVEN KENNEY DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY A: 158 Erie > St. N | Leamington ON E: *st...@wavedirect.org > * | P: 519-737-9283 W: *www.wavedirect.net > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Josh Baird" <joshba...@gmail.com> > *To: *"af" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Monday, December 21, 2020 3:34:23 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations > > 2x Intel x710. > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 2:22 PM Steven Kenney <st...@wavedirect.org> > wrote: > > I've considered this too as a temporary measure because I can get some off > lease well maintained Dell servers for peanuts. Problem is finding the > right cards when you need 8 sfp+ ports. > > > > > *STEVEN KENNEY DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY A: 158 Erie > St. N | Leamington ON E: *st...@wavedirect.org > * | P: 519-737-9283 W: *www.wavedirect.net > ------------------------------ > *From: *"TJ Trout" <t...@voltbb.com> > *To: *"af" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Monday, December 21, 2020 12:41:53 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations > > We just bought 5x brand new 1072s and they are rebooting by watchdog. > Upgraded ros and firmware, Disabled watchdog and then they hard freeze and > require a reboot. > > We are going chr route. 1072 is junk. > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 9:34 AM Dennis Burgess <dmburg...@linktechs.net> > wrote: > > Hate to say it, but worked. Keep in mind that these units that we have > had this issue had been running for 3+ years, so, it was out of warranty > anyways. > > > > > *Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE, MTCTCE, > MTCINE, MTCSE, HE IPv6 Sage, Cambium ePMP Certified *Author of "Learn > RouterOS- Second Edition” > *Link Technologies, Inc* -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services > *Office*: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net > Create Wireless Coverage’s with www.towercoverage.com > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Josh Baird > *Sent:* Monday, December 21, 2020 9:45 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations > > Haha - "Get a new one" .. only with MT. > > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 8:22 AM Dennis Burgess <dmburg...@linktechs.net> > wrote: > > Get a new one. That’s what we did, replaced it and the issue went away. > Its like the 1072 has some kind of bug, or maybe a leaky cap, that > eventually causes them to do this. No matter of fiddling fixes it, we > swapped out the unit and have not have the same issue since. We have 1072s > running 15gig inbound without issues. So, while I do attest that this is > a MT (rather routeros) issue, we don’t have any data to know where it is > unless the manufacture can tell us. So far they are tight lipped. > > > > > *Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE, MTCTCE, > MTCINE, MTCSE, HE IPv6 Sage, Cambium ePMP Certified *Author of "Learn > RouterOS- Second Edition” > *Link Technologies, Inc* -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services > *Office*: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net > Create Wireless Coverage’s with www.towercoverage.com > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Steven Kenney > *Sent:* Monday, December 21, 2020 12:56 AM > *To:* af <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations > > Their support is behaving the same way exactly. They told me to take the > watchdog off and allow the internet to be frozen (downtime for all my > customers) whenever it happens at any random point in the day/night while I > rush to log into it with a serial cable. The absurdity of it. Luckily I > told him from day one that I have a CONSOLE SERVER and that I log all the > serial output of all my switches and routers. But even though I told them > that a couple times they still requested I plug in a serial cable and wait > for it to freeze. So I'm like .. hellooo there is a serial cable plugged > in at all times! I told him there is no output. It just reboots. I even > humored him and turned the watchdog off and we had a reboot on the weekend > while the cable was plugged in and the console was logged in. I even had > logging set to echo for a lot of things and nothing.. just a hard freeze. > > There is no BGP on this one and the processor is not high leading up to > the crash at all. Updated 5 times already and its just a placebo. They > need to get their shit together. > > > > > *STEVEN KENNEY DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY A: 158 Erie > St. N | Leamington ON E: *st...@wavedirect.org > * | P: 519-737-9283 W: * > https://imsva91-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=www.wavedirect.net&umid=D7E8655E-B6F3-F705-88EA-2A08303811DF&auth=079c058f437b7c6303d36c6513e5e8848d0c5ac4-a20d49e3e6a4f958e127c88b05686fb87748d1dd > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Colin Stanners" <cstann...@gmail.com> > *To: *"af" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Monday, December 21, 2020 12:59:09 AM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations > > This last year, I've seen a MikroTik CCR1072 switch from long being > rock-solid to now having occasional random reboots (from watchdog) or 100% > CPU usage, which strangles the BGP process. In the latter case, > tools->profile would show the firewall taking 100% of CPU, even after > temporarily disabling all firewall filter and NAT rules and connection > tracking. Not fun. > > MT tech support did not seem super helpful or interested, mostly > recommending to disable watchdog (unacceptable on a production router) or > to upgrade firmware (without specifying the suspected cause of the problem > or nature of the fix). > > Tried 1 update, that didn't seem to help, have now tried another... > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 11:38 PM Steven Kenney <st...@wavedirect.org> wrote: > > MIkrotik has been rock solid for me for years. Until this year and the > 1072's. Random reboots set off by watchdog timer on all of my 1072's. > Some more than others. Threads in the forum all discuss the same problem > exactly. Its a connection tracking issue.. however I need connection > tracking on one particular router. I've adjusted everything I could. > Firmware and board firmware all up to date etc. Happens randomly with low > levels of traffic, high levels of traffic, sometimes a couple times a > day, sometimes weeks. No DDOS evidence at all from upstream routers. > Configs checked and rechecked by third party experts. I graph everything > about the Mikrotik and there are no clues or anything abnormal happening > before the crash. Plenty of memory, disk space, CPU etc. Replaces all > the trannies, power cables and such. Not running BGP only OSPF on the one > that is giving me the most trouble. > > Even have a serial console cable plugged into them to my opengear and set > it to log pretty much everything to console including the kernel and > nothing. A hard freeze. > > Then there is Mikrotik support... I've never needed their support before > until now. So I put a ticket in and the shitty attitude I'm getting from > them seems like they KNOW there is something wrong with the hardware and > they are intentionally not being helpful. It is pretty clear to see with > all the people reporting this issue that there IS an issue. > > If this is any indication of how things are going to go with Mikrotik on > the newer hardware going forware I think its time to jump to an enterprise > level system. Juniper most likely. Shame because they are just about > keeping up with the demands with their hardware. Getting closer to 100Gbps > etc and ROS7 ... but at their current pace I think we've outgrew them. > > All the threads discussing this issue has been absolutely quiet when it > comes to Mikrotik jumping in to mention or try to help troubleshoot. I > think they know they had bad hardware out there and do not want to honor > warranties. I've heard rumors of bad batches of 1072's. > > Anyone else encounter this? > > > > > *STEVEN KENNEY DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY A: 158 Erie > St. N | Leamington ON E: *st...@wavedirect.org > * | P: 519-737-9283 W: *www.wavedirect.net > <https://imsva91-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wavedirect.net&umid=D7E8655E-B6F3-F705-88EA-2A08303811DF&auth=079c058f437b7c6303d36c6513e5e8848d0c5ac4-3ca9c8d0ac0d6566b9daf27839af27539533a38d> > -- > > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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