The switch comes with dual boot software: RouterOs and SwitchOs, the former being the more powerful/configurable. Again, the documentation is lacking with the switch and even the website link they give you to get the full documentation doesn't work. Rather, I figured I'd have the same issues, so it was basically straightforward this time by following the steps I eventually figured out. I had the same issues with just getting into the switch as I described in the other review. So I felt like I was winging it a bit but understood what it should be capable of doing. There isn't a lot of info about this switch out there aside a couple videos, including one review with a guy drinking beer, one with guy with a dry erase board, and some cell phone video of someone else rambling. I thought about getting Mikrotik's new 8 ports sfp+ switch, but really I didn't need that many ports in that configuration by my servers. So I ended up with the smaller 4 port 10gbe switch which made more sense. When my house switch died, I decided to move the CSS326-24G-2S+RM 24 gig/2 10gbe switch into it's place.

I was using the mikrotik CSS326-24G-2S+RM 24 port switch by my servers to bridge 2 10gbe connections between them (one for the main server, the other for a video editing vm on another.) And yes, I know I could do direct cabling (which I've done), but then the other devices on the network trying to access the server would be bottlenecked by a single gigabit connection. OK, so the reason I bought this little switch is because my main, old, Cisco/linksys 24 port switch died a pathetic death. You don't have to read this reasoning of why I bought this: less than stellar mikrotik experience is detailed here: Either I'm a glutton for punishment or just cheap, but I've purchased another Mikrotik switch, the 4 10gbe port (+1 1gig port) little guy.įor a refresher, my previous.

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