osma, 3 months ago

@karppinen
Built to enable buffer bloat?

karppinen, 3 months ago

@osma probably not, the CPU on this is not really geared towards routing. Might be that's just what the SoC has and there's no option for less RAM with the same switch ASIC

osma, 3 months ago

@karppinen
Bursting 200-500 MB of data from a 1Gbps port to one limited to FE and watching for (lack of) packet loss would reveal it..

harald, 3 months ago

@karppinen @osma I have been battling with an old Procurve that has 24 MB of flash. Which would be OK, even with both primary and secondary images. But the poor developer has installed grub on the flash, and some tempfiles from Gnome. Tried to resolve this for weeks, didn't know paki-english this good before.

karppinen, 3 months ago

@harald @osma MikroTik is, to their credit, very good about utilizing the space. It’s a strategy tax: because they have decided to continue shipping 16MB devices, they also have implement most of the features from scratch because the canonical open source solutions simply wouldn’t fit (bird/frr, bind/unbound, openssh, samba etc)

osma, 3 months ago

@karppinen
Never used them myself. I have this one large install I built with Unifi, that's it..
@harald