Hi,
You need to fix your network, not the hardware/software you are running.
I have over 60 Mikrotik backhaul links, with over 1,000 Mikrotik
customer radios (plus thousands more Trango and Canopy) and have NONE of
the issues you describe.
Our main edge router is a Mikrotik box (x86 with Quad core) and it has
thousands of rules and NAT translations, moving 450Mbps x 150Mbps on a
daily basis, and has been up for over 6 months right now (due only to
firmware upgrades).
Having your network bridged is the problem. Take time out and fix that,
or you will continue to have more and more problems...
Travis
Microserv
On 10/14/2010 4:45 PM, Forbes Mercy wrote:
Really Josh, you want me to rehash this? To be simple I'm not a true
geek, I barely speak linux and Router OS not at all. Our network of
700 over 12 towers is bridged, a big no-no but I can't keep radios up
long enough to make us routed along with the growth sprut we've had
this year (we 're averaging 3 installs a day with one installer/field
tech). We've found that if you get over 50 on Mikrotik you start
getting latency issues, four of our towers have over that. When I was
all Mikrotik (well 90% that 10% Moto) it worked great for about a year
and a half, then the packet storms started, then radios started doing
weird intermittent things like turning off. Sure we did the obvious,
change passwords, isolate the radios from the rest of the network but
it just started to get worse, probably traffic driven from our ongoing
growth that the greater demand for more bandwidth (we are 90%
residential so Netflix type stuff).
To solve this we started replacing backhauls with Ubiquiti radios.
Ubiquiti allows more traffic so the added pressure really started to
take down the Mikrotik AP's, ports and bridges now drop with
undiagnoisable (new word) regularity. Then the bandwidth manager
failed, Butch rebuilt it but for some reason the upgrade to 4.11 made
failures happen more often that were like the AP's, dropped ports and
bridges. We compensated by making a path on the Ethernet side and
in-network side so we could maybe ... (fix the disabled port/bridge)
from either end. We are spending all of our time building redundant
this and redundant that until we realized one thing, on every outage
Mikrotik's had cascading failures shutting down ports or turning off
radios (disabling) meanwhile Ubiquiti never went down, ever. So we
started pulling all Mikrotik backhauls, now we only lose AP's and the
bandwidth manager. Since the bandwidth manager takes the entire
network down we want replace it. Now you're up to speed on where we
are, I call Mikrotik my 'backwards momentum' mover, we have to stop
our forward motion on building and installing so we can restore
service, it takes the fun out of this business thats for sure.
Forbes
On 10/14/2010 3:17 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
Hrm why doesn't Mikrotik work?
On Oct 14, 2010 6:15 PM, "Forbes Mercy" <forbes.me...@wabroadband.com
<mailto:forbes.me...@wabroadband.com>> wrote:
> In my mission to rid our network of Mikrotik I need to shop for a new
> bandwidth manager since mine likes to randomly drop one of the
ports or
> bridge, and reset the route gateway (twice already this week). I'm
> looking for a more friendly windows type based unit, any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> Forbes
>
>
>
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