Hi David,
I use MikroTiks both at home and for work (our production Webservers and Database machines run through them).
Also I have a solution I will be documenting which will allow you to get route-able 44.x.x.x (AMPRnet) public IP addresses over VPN and have found an economical provider to do the BGP via a virtual host. Initial setup and testing is looking good. I hope to publish soon, though I have Hamvention and SeaPac coming up.
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:23 PM, David Ranch amprgw@trinnet.net wrote:
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%3E
or maybe https://mikrotik.com/product/rb1100ahx4 < https://mikrotik.com/product/rb1100ahx4%3E
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