Saturday, February 27, 2021

Cheapest 10G router?

We're lucky that we colo in an ISP that runs our local IX, and ports into that are free at any speed (yay!).

This org has traditionally used UBNT EdgeRouters as our needs were very simple, we've since dabbled into Mikrotik simply because we needed some 10G ports and the price was cheap enough we figured "lets try it". So far it's been halfway decent but the lack of IPv6 support and some other routing oddities are driving me to look elsewhere.

We've got a 1G DIA link, a 10G IX link, both receiving on net + defaults (which means about 500 routes on the DIA side and about 90k on the IX) and two 10G ports in a LAG back to the switches.

I'm hoping to find something a little more enterprise than the 'Tik without a 30k pricetag.

TNSR on Netgate looks promising but the forums show some BGP growing pains, this may be very interesting in an year or two but I don't think now.

Any ideas here?



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