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[Anthro]

Would a que even be necessary for me with a 800Mb's down / 100Mbs up lol

 

[PhireSide]

Would a que even be necessary for me with a 800Mb's down / 100Mbs up lol

It really depends. As a business? Absolutely. Home user? I think it may be an exercise in futility

 

[Leno]

Would a que even be necessary for me with a 800Mb's down / 100Mbs up lol

The bigger question would be can your mikrotik do 800mbit with fasttrack disabled, which would be required for queues

At high speeds the cpu starts to limit the effectiveness

I was thinking of a way to run uploads through a seperate router that could have queues, while downloads run through the main router with fastrack enabled (queuing download is pointless unless you limit to below your line speed)

 

[Anthro]

The bigger question would be can your mikrotik do 800mbit with fasttrack disabled, which would be required for queues

At high speeds the cpu starts to limit the effectiveness

I was thinking of a way to run uploads through a seperate router that could have queues, while downloads run through the main router with fastrack enabled (queuing download is pointless unless you limit to below your line speed)

Solid question, I have a RB2011UiAS-2HnD

 

[PsyWulf]

2011 without fasttrack caps out around 280Mbps on Queues if memory serves (there's an odd CPU pathing issue where it only uses a single core unless you re-wire the network switching as it's wired 5ports to a core or something)

 

[PhireSide]

2011 without fasttrack caps out around 280Mbps on Queues if memory serves (there's an odd CPU pathing issue where it only uses a single core unless you re-wire the network switching as it's wired 5ports to a core or something)

Is that the one where even ports go to one CPU, and odd ports to the other? I think I recall something similar

 

[Leno]

 

[Leno]

The one thing that irrotates me about Mikrotik is the performance doesnt match the performance test table on their site, unless most of my packets are only 64 bytes

 

[PsyWulf]

Is that the one where even ports go to one CPU, and odd ports to the other? I think I recall something similar

Similar,see the image posted earlier

 

[PhireSide]

Similar,see the image posted earlier

That’s the one I was thinking of!

 

[ghostRgg]

Has anybody managed to get IPV6 working on Router OS 7 - 7.2rc5 yet? Trying to troubleshoot since it can be a ton of different things, but can't seem to figure it out without going nuts with OS7 bugs

 

[Cactus]

Has anybody managed to get IPV6 working on Router OS 7 - 7.2rc5 yet? Trying to troubleshoot since it can be a ton of different things, but can't seem to figure it out without going nuts with OS7 bugs

It works fine on WebSquad on 7.1.5 using their guide https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/web-squad-isp.1007232/page-197#post-25774445

Though I think from 7 onward the IPv6 firewall rules are automatically added if I remember correctly.

 

[yogidabear]

Has anybody managed to get IPV6 working on Router OS 7 - 7.2rc5 yet? Trying to troubleshoot since it can be a ton of different things, but can't seem to figure it out without going nuts with OS7 bugs

Update to 7.2 stable anyway but dont think thats your issue as there was not much difference between 7.1 and 7.2 before on ipv6

*) ipv6 - do not add duplicate dynamic prefix when static already exists;
*) ipv6 - fixed "retransmissit-interval" unit value;
*) ipv6 - fixed VLAN tagged PPPoE packet receiving on RB5009;

 

[Cactus]

Update to 7.2 stable anyway but dont think thats your issue as there was not much difference between 7.1 and 7.2 before on ipv6

*) ipv6 - do not add duplicate dynamic prefix when static already exists;
*) ipv6 - fixed "retransmissit-interval" unit value;
*) ipv6 - fixed VLAN tagged PPPoE packet receiving on RB5009;

I see 7.2 stable dropped today. Time to go update.

 

[Tinuva]

Has anybody managed to get IPV6 working on Router OS 7 - 7.2rc5 yet? Trying to troubleshoot since it can be a ton of different things, but can't seem to figure it out without going nuts with OS7 bugs

On Router OS 7 IPv6 is disabled by default. You need to go IPv6 -> Settings -> Untick "disable ipv6"

 

[ghostRgg]

I see 7.2 stable dropped today. Time to go update.

Thanks for the notice, will mess around more with it.

 

[PhireSide]

RouterOS 7.2.1 is out, released 13 April 2022:

Only one small change mentioned in the changelog:

What's new in 7.2.1 (2022-Apr-13 09:01):

*) filesystem - improved long-term filesystem stability and data integrity;

 

[Cactus]

RouterOS 7.2.1 is out, released 13 April 2022:

Only one small change mentioned in the changelog:

What's new in 7.2.1 (2022-Apr-13 09:01):

*) filesystem - improved long-term filesystem stability and data integrity;

I wonder if this fixes the hard drive mounting issue. At the moment, if you mount a hard drive to a Mikrotik and share it, the amount of freespace reported by the router is all wrong.

 

[McGuywer]

Would a que even be necessary for me with a 800Mb's down / 100Mbs up lol

Latency explained - for the ones that care about the experience

mybroadband.co.za

 

[PhireSide]

That’s the one I was thinking of!

Quoting myself here but I recall a while back I saw a diagram of a router where even ports have one lane, and odd ports have another lane. I found it. It was the RB750Gr3:



So if you have hardware offload disabled (which you would have if you wanted STP support, for instance), the CPU would be doing the switching and transferring data from an even port to an even port or an odd port to an odd port would net you poor performance. Hence why the recommendation is that if you want to use this as a router in a production environment, it's recommended to have a seperate switch installed doing switchy things, and the router to do routery things.