Hello Everyone,
Considering there is a good chunk of routing-savvy HAMs here, I thought
I'd use you as a sounding board on what would be a good router to buy.
Specifically, I have a project to consolidate the current adhoc setup of
three consumer grade "routers" to one larger, better router. I'm
considering something like a:
https://mikrotik.com/product/CCR1009-7G-1C-1Splus
<https://mikrotik.com/product/CCR1009-7G-1C-1Splus>
or maybe
https://mikrotik.com/product/rb1100ahx4
<https://mikrotik.com/product/rb1100ahx4>
I'm looking for something that is:
- very stable
- offer long term software updates (a support contract might be fine)
- Has strong support for IPv4 NAT (to better the consumer routers
mentioned above) for the three IPs we have onsite
- maybe some L2 segmenting and vlan'ing support for traffic isolation
- has performance to grow into
- has a decent GUI UI for others in the club who can't / won't cope
with a CLI
- ACLs to limit incoming traffic to specific hosts (say limit RDP
traffic to just some people to some hosts, etc)
- maybe.. just maybe support SSL VPNs or IPSEC
- maybe dual power supplies
- stretch goal: native support for IPv6
- I have no need for dynamic routing protocols. This is a single
site and statics are fine
For background on our needs, the site supports a multi-RF link repeater
system has:
- two unique IRLP nodes (low use)
- one Echolink node (low use)
- one WIresX enabled Yaesu System Fusion repeater (decent use)
- One three band Icom Dstar stack (1.2Ghz DD system as well) (decent
use)
- One Internet enabled Motorola DMR repeater (decent use)
- backhaul of rarely used multi-county 3.4Ghz wifi network
- other random needs for remote management (SSH, RDP, etc)
I believe something like a Miktrotik would be fine for our low-end needs
but maybe something from Ubiquiti or others would be fine. I'm perfectly
comfortable with a CLI and I'm decently versed in Mikrotik (a bit weird
of a UI), IOS (but I don't want to pay for Cisco prices, JUNOS (same
point), etc. I personally think a lot of the lower tier vendor's
products have come a LONG way so I don't need/want/care for "carrier"
grade.
If you have any other recommendations for a quality but not too
expensive router, I'd love to hear it!
--David
KI6ZHD