Comment on emergency remote access
Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I buy better gear that doesn’t regularly require a reboot
My mikrotik has not NEEDED a reboot ever, except when I run upgrades. Everything is set up to auto recover when disconnects happen, and power up properly if there’s an extended power failure that causes UPS shutdowns.
I will never understand why people think rebooting their router regularly is a normal thing. That just means your gear or setup is crap.
My Mikrotik routers and switches also reboot in seconds (even for upgrades), which I’ve never seen consumer gear do!
Even my Ubiquiti switches seem to take a minute or so to start forwarding traffic after a reboot; whilst my Mikrotik switches reboot faster than any of my unmanaged switches start up.
Cisco, HP, and many other “Enterprise” switches will take a minute or two to start forwarding frames after boot.
Doesn’t really excuse Ubiquiti but that’s what they’re trying for.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I get what you mean, I only use L3 top-of-rack data center switches, what a bunch of amateur peasants !
Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
That’s called unnecessary overkill and you’ll introduce failures from excess complexity.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Actually they are a reduction in complexity, yes I am not using most of the features, they run in L2, but their backbone runs off a x86 single board computer and they run a mostly hardware agnostic OS (Sonic).
This is what I mean by a reduction in complexity, it’s basically running debian os with pcie switchdev interfaces on a PC. It’s familiar and stable, not locked in to proprietary hardware, they’re cheap and plentiful