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#171535 21-Apr-2015 22:26
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After suggestions for a router that meets my (somewhat complicated) needs and hopefully doesn't cost moonbeams. I'm open to suggestions for VM based solutions as well as hardware.

Currently I have an old cisco router which does everything I want beautifully, except when I try and put my connection under load where upon it starts dying horribly. I suspect it was really designed for crappy slow serial links not me trying to use it on a modern high speed connection :-)

Supports vlan subinterfaces (currently have 4 subinterfaces but would like some room to expand, a dozen would be heaps)
NAT translation and port forwarding (or in cisco land nat overload and static translations)
Multiple DHCP scopes (ie one per vlan) 
Can sustain 100mb/sec across the WAN link, bonus for 200mb/1gb

If cisco's routing performance pdf is to be believed I need to spend a used car for 100mb throughput on the wan, and a small house for gbps.. Help?

In related news anyone ever converted a Juniper ScreenOS box over to JunOS? I have a SSG550M which is running ScreenOS which is being EoL'd and I see no reason to learn it. In theory the SSG550M is the same hardware as the J6350, and only the OS differs.. There's an official conversion kit for a few hundred bucks, but given that its just a replacement CF card with a different OS and a new sticker fro the front I suspect just acquiring another CF card and an OS image would be much easier and cheaper. 









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  #1289213 22-Apr-2015 12:30

Get an Ubiquity Edge router Lite or a Mikrotic router. The edge router can do Gigabit over PPP with the right CLI settings. I use one myself on my Snap UFB connection. Yes it does multiple VLANS and DHCP servers. It's firmware is a fork of Vyatta. Alot of it's more complex config needs to be done via CLI. But im guessing that you are used to doing router config via CLI since you have Cisco already.

Others will be able to suggest which Mikrotic routers to have a look at as well.







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  #1289227 22-Apr-2015 12:39
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Ubiquity Edge Lite.

A swine to set up, but you seem to know your way around routers smile




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  #1289246 22-Apr-2015 12:53
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Mikrotik Rb2011 is a better router in every way compared to a Edge Router Lite. You get 5 Gigabit interfaces, 5 100/100 interfaces, a 2.4GHz wireless interface and a USB port for around $200. If you don't want to spend that much you could drop down to the smaller RB951G-2HnD but I think it is a EoL model now so might be harder to find but I think Go Wireless still stock them. It is basically the same as the 2011 but doesn't have 10 interfaces, only 5 and is the same price as the ERL.

RouterOS kicks Ubiquiti's as5 when it comes to their software.

You sound competent enough to be able to set one up. Mikrotik have very good documentation and you will be able to breeze through the config on Windox rather than the stupid CLI Ubiquiti force you to use.



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  #1289256 22-Apr-2015 13:01
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For a VM based solution, pfSense is pretty good. Free and plenty of support. We use it at work to segregate our Client Wifi from our Staff Mobile device WiFi. Works well.

http://ufb.mtaspiring.school.nz/Downhome/Firewall

http://www.reddit.com/r/pfsense

 

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  #1289280 22-Apr-2015 13:16
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+1 for Mikrotik from GoWifi

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  #1289402 22-Apr-2015 14:47
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Thanks for the input folks, looks like the RB2011UiAS-RM at $197 at PBTech would fit the bill nicely, but might have a play with Pfsense first. 




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  #1289947 23-Apr-2015 09:06
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Guys, a bit of an (ignorant?) lay man question.  What benefit or improvement would routers like the Mikrotik mentioned above be for a home user, over a standard consumer (Netgear, TP_Link etc) router?  i.e. not for an entry level plug and play home user, but more of an "intermediate" user who has dabled in 3rd party firmare, likes to control QoS, set up a NAS etc?

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  #1289998 23-Apr-2015 10:02
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Earbanean: ... What benefit or improvement would routers like the Mikrotik mentioned above be for a home user, over a standard consumer (Netgear, TP_Link etc) router?  ...


Absolutely none, in my opinion.

I use an EdgeRouter Lite because I can, not because I need to.

(I'm runnuing 8 PC's and 3 NAS units)




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