Cisco Recertified!
I’m back to the land of the living! I’ve been studying hard for the last month and a half and really bearing down the last week and a half. Needless to say the last two days have been insane…my brain is broken right now. If you want to ask me any Cisco networking questions, do it this week…everything will fall out of my head soon 😉
Great! Would you mind to answer how is performance of Mikrotik’s VPN site-to-site (two big and 3 little organizational branches) IPsec/AES implementation on par with Cisco ASA 5505/5510 from your experience? Do they really can 100Mbit/s full duplex with encryption? What is from your point of view easier to setup and maintain throughout years – VPN on Mikrotiks or Cisco ASA? Thank you!
@IL
Cisco’s VPN will always be more stable. Once it is working, it will continue to work without fail. You can view the throughput here.
When MTK VPN works it is usually relatively stable. Often the throughput will be good, but sometimes you can hit jitter issues. Sometimes you will just have issues getting the tunnel established or reestablished. It works well for most situations.
Congrats!!!!!!
I am mostly a Mikrotik religious fanatic. But here in Kenya, we have too many Cisco routers for one to ignore.
A workmate who is a Cisco diehard insists that Mikrotik is a hobby kit and Cisco is what dad goes to work on at the workplace. Now that is NOT correct. Tech sheets tell me that Ciscos are just not wired proper… Short of it am now trying to do my CCNA.
Any pointers….
NOTE: am from the land where Chupaka, Normis, Greg_sowell, fewi bake the cake that we consume. Its served by change_ip, mrz, janisk/j.
@Vincent
I’ve found only a handful of situations where Cisco trumps MTK: in a situation where you need a High Availability chassis, extensive IPSec, and where compliance reasons demand it.
My tips for getting your CCNA is study your books hard and get a few routers to play with. I prefer physical routers to simulations when possible. Nothing new from me 🙂