Mikrotik RB750G Testing
This is the new gig version of the RB750. The upgraded model has 5 gig ports and a 680Mhz processor.
Lets first take a look at this guy.
Nothing different on the outside...except the sticker
Bottoms up!
Bottom off
Just the shell
You can see that the new, bigger, proc has a heatsink. Orientation of the RAM moved
750 on the left - 750G on the right
Some additional SMDs on the bottom.
750 on the left - 750G on the right
In the product lineup it looks like the 750G fits well as the head end device in a hub-and-spoke IPSec VPN environment. Due to this fact, I setup a test scenario of two remote sites connecting back via IPSec tunnels. One remote site is an RB750, the other remote is an RB150. My bandwidth test devices are servers loaded with Mikrotik ROS. The MTK servers in the diagram are my speed testing devices. All code versions are 3.30 other than the RB750G, which comes preloaded with 3.31. All my tests use TCP since most real world traffic is TCP. I also did some testing adding a layer 7(L7) firewall rule.
Here’s the diagram I used for the initial testing:
Diagram1
IPSec tests
For test number 2 I hooked the gig NICs on the servers straight to port 1 and 2 on the RB750G. I wanted to test routed gig throughput.
Nice and simple
Gig to gig routed
For the final test, I wanted to just do a quick test enabling the switch chips on the ports.
Even more simplerer 😉
Switch chip test
*NOTE* This is the max throughput my servers can push. If someone wants to send me a pair of RB1000s to speed test with, I won’t argue 😉 Since my hardware wasn’t capable up pushing full line rate gig, I wasn’t able to fully test the switch chip throughput, though it looks like it can handle line rate, or very near it.
So as you can see from the tests with the remote VPNs, this device is more than capable. In most situations I’ve seen you will have a hub site and 2 to 3 remote sites. The remote sites will generally be accessing files and RDP traffic, so throughput requirements are generally low. This is the new head-end device I’ll be deploying…in conjunction with RB750s that is. Also, doing a 100Mb test routed with connection tracking yields about 45% utilization on the router.
This review sample was sent to me by my friends over at BalticNetworks…the guys with the Mikrotik low price guarantee.
Greg! I finally remembered to check back on your blog, and I find so many cool video tutorials and reviews, Nice!
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Normunds!
It’s been ages my friend. I’m glad to see I’ve sucked you back in. =)
Thanks for the RSS add, I’m honored…so now it’s you and my mom that subscribe! hehehe.
I just added the comments to my reader so now you have three subscribed! 😉
That’s what I’m tallking about…there’s a rumor that my grandma might subscribe!
Haha, I check back here every now and then since discovering the entertaining and informative source of knowledge known as greg 😀
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Hmmmm…what are you buttering me up for Andrew? I’m not loaning you more money! 😛