MikroTik CRS305-1G-4S+IN 10G Switch Setup Review With VLANS

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[@Factory400]

Power electronics engineer here.....Those are not 'solid state' caps, they are still electrolytic low ESR polymer types. The polymers are quite reliable, but still do not have the life span of MLCC types but are a good compromise from the expense of using MLCC's for the whole design. The life of the aluminum electrolytic is hugely determined by the brand and the model chosen. The higher-end brands with high temp ratings will last far longer than the usefulness of the switch even if they get rather toasty in 24/7 service. The generic/knock-off versions are total unknowns but generally a small fraction of the lifetime. Hopefully this manufacture did not cheap out on caps to get the BOM cost at a target set by the marketing department. As a hobby, I repair every imaginable high-tech high-end devices and the cheap off-brand aluminum electrolytic caps are responsible for a very high percentage of failures. In general, they do not instantly go bad but rather degrade. Depending on the design of the circuit, the degradation on a PDN system generally compromises the stability of the power. That creates noise that ends up in the signals as errors that get worse and worse over time. The errors are usually random and appear to be related to some other configuration issue - sending people on wild goose chases.

[@lelandclayton5462]

The capacitors should be fine as long as they're name brand and are rated for 105*C. The "solid state" caps you pointed out are not solid state, they're typical electrolytic caps in a SMD package.

[@eW0LF]

Finally! I am glad that you did review of MikrotTik product.

[@MirkWoot]

It's been on my wish list for a long time, among things. Good to see little review.

[@rjy8960]

I'm running a Mikrotik 309 8 port10G switch and it's been here for 6 months. Not bad, does what it says on the tin. No complaints.

[@jerrygibson1422]

I like the status lights being located on the side. I use this as a multi point transceiver joining multiple fiber legs together. Having it DIN mounted and seeing the lights when I open the cabinet is a plus. Also, powering with active POE (803.3at switch) with no problems.

[@MrCody760]

Deploying a few of these today, nice walk through Tom!

[@joshuafuller78]

Haven't seen this switch before. Thanks for the review 👍

[@bubffm]

Nice switch. Reliable. Fast. Using it since a year or so.

[@LemonRush7777]

Buy a Mikrotic, they said. You can control everything and it's cheap, they said. That thing has so many options I didn't know how to make anything beyond turning it on.

[@BattousaiHBr]

if you don't already have some background in networking, it can indeed be quite difficult to have anything working besides using it like a dumb switch.

[@mesaber86]

Maybe you should read the documentation like everyone else :D

[@thevrilpill]

The idea is that MikroTik is a great router to learn on because it has so many features at the price of entry level device (more or less).

[@LemonRush7777]

@@thevrilpill I gave up, sold mine lol

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

VLANs are super useful and practically a must nowadays with guest wifi networks and such. VLANs can also greatly improve wifi network security. It's worth it to dive into the books to learn how VLAN tagging (802.11q) works.

[@in2quads]

I have the 8 port version and it has been solid for over 6 months. Picked it up new on ebay for under $240. Best purchase I have made for my homelab.

[@JohnFisk-OHS-78]

Huge thanks! I'm on the verge of setting up my first TrueNAS server for digital photography / video editing and archiving and planned to use 10 GbE connections. I'm using this unit for exactly all of the reasons you mention. Thanks for the walk through! Cheers, mate! J

[@SB-qm5wg]

Been using mine a year now. Love it.

[@slycooperyay]

I have one of these switches. Great for the price and never had an issue with it.

[@chrisumali9841]

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[@daytontechnician]

Nice little device for the price. Might have to get one to test and play around with. Thanks for the informational video Tom!

[@darksecond]

It's bigger 8 port brother does have a rack-mount option

[@drreality1]

Man I'm looking forward to your excellent tutorials on router os 😁👍 I'd love to watch mikrotik iot network isolation Finally someone who makes sense talking about mikrotik excellent and affordable products

[@sitte24]

Won't be too sure he will do many videos about it. He only bought it so he could have cheap 10G in his lab rack for the upcoming videos on the truenas you can see mounted in there (which has 40G on it btw)

[@drreality1]

@@sitte24 that's true, I hope he does though as his videos are easy to follow and very nice

[@BobHolowenko]

I love this unit. I also have mine in switchmode, and find it to be feature rich for my home network. I use it to connect my FreeNAS machine, my ESXi host, my wife's development server, and my personal workstation back to the rest of my home network. The PoE feature is great as my PoE-enabled "core" switch powers it on one UPS, and the external brick is on another. A third would be possible if I had a third rail and third 12V source. The network features are great on this little unit. the RTSP features make it great, and for SAN applications it supports 9000MTU. The dot1q trunking is super easy and I love that by default every port takes all VLANs, but if you want to isolate (ie: security zones, customers, etc) you can...Awesome little unit. I found that the unit was a bit weak on the SNMP front with just 64bit interface counters to grab - thermals, attenuation, etc were not. The stats and error counters are very helpful in the webui. The fact that it speaks CDP is a bonus too. Cheers.

[@minigpracing3068]

Might be just what I need. Thanks.

[@tehslackz0r]

Good video. Running arch i threw on wine and got winbox running which was scary easy. Usually i expect something like that to put up more of a fight. Also the web config seems to mimic the winbox interface.

[@gastonsenac]

IMHO the best thing about Mikrotik is the software. Tremendous capabilities and pretty stable. It's running on a customised Linux. You could run Winbox in Wine and believe me, it's worth the learning curve. The options and capabilities are amazing. A good teacher is Maher Haddad he's here in KZbin and at Udemy.

[@andljoy]

I wish they would update the kernel tho , i dont like that its so old and no longer supported. Would prob cut off older devices tho that dont have the space / power to run newer kernel.

[@blindside995]

Love this video. Personally, I really love mikrotik products. I am not happy that the company keeps there software close source. However, nice product for low cost. I would love to see your review of an RB4011 using routerOS. Great video keep up the grind!

Nice review, just bought one! Now I just have to replace all NICs on the computers :P

[@joelcrocker1094]

thank u this shows how the 10 gb network works a little bit better of understanding it - I am in the slow process of upgrading to 10gb network - I have the 10gb switch with 4 & 24 1 gb on it - I got this for about 60 bucks ebay used - my other switch the two 10 gb are broken when I got it, so this was the replacement - and all the cable names where hard to find

[@bigkitty7009]

One thing I like about Winbox is the ability to hit things via mac. For instance if I plug into a switch via ethernet, with winbox I can hit the switch via MAC address without having to set an IP etc (assuming of course there is no VLAN settings, ACL etc preventing it)

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

love your leet vlan!

[@jaytfo]

The 10GBaseT SFP+ module shows 10G to the host side interface at all times, because it is always running XFI. The device utilizes flow control when the interfaces are mismatched. This allows 1G/2.5G/5G/10G (if yours supports 2.5/5) when the host does not support the newer autoneg mechanisms in USXGMII (which coincidentally also runs 10G all the time, but duplicates the data 10x for 1G, the same as SGMII did to run 10 or 100Mbit). The Marvell 98DX3236 inside the Microtik CRS305 does not support USXGMII in this case, even if your SFP+ module did. Your tagged VLANs worked, because the switch is set to not modify tags by default, and it will just pass them. There's nothing concerning I see about the SMD caps you pointed at. I wasn't aware of this product, and I have a use for it especially given it's price point, so thanks for that. Cheers...

[@UnkyjoesPlayhouse]

Nice switch, I had one and did a giveaway as another sub donated a 10Gb Unifi.

[@brandonv8721]

I've used 2k hour caps in a 10k hour design. If you are cool and well under ripple current rating they will last significantly longer. Many reliable mfgs put life curves in datasheet and will send you a cap with embedded thermal couple.

[@rdwnisme]

more mikroTik product please !!

[@nagi603]

One thing not mentioned: Mikrotik specifically says on their product page that if you use an RJ45 10Gig adapter, you might need extra (active) cooling. Though if you want to fill this one up with 10gig rj45 adapters, it's probably cheaper and less complicated to just buy an actual small 10gig rj45 switch.

[@Mi_Fa_Volare]

Oh fuck! No thanks. Later maybe.

[@charlescc1000]

Thanks Tom! Excited to learn more about MikroTik’s offerings. I noticed they offer a 24 gigabit port + 2x 10Gbe SFP+ switch. It’s only $140 which is very competitive for a managed switch with 10Gbe support. Ordered one to try it out

[@fcosmin327]

yes man, the CSS326-24G-2S+RM. Have some in my network. They work great. No RouterOS. Just SwitchOS. Excelent managed switches (especially for the price) !

[@WolfHunter1043]

I just bought one of these switches yesterday from Baltic Networks, gets delivered today. Plan to run my home off of it with server and workstation at 10Gb via the SFP+. If I ever plan to expand my 10Gb network I will add one of these 5 port switches from them.

Every CRS has wireless menu, regardless on absence of radio hardware, and can be used for capsman so you can manage your cap wifi network on it. Also, since this switch is L5 licensed, it can even provide you hotspot for 500 users among some other stuff. L4 is 200, L6 is unlimited, cheapest L5 is CRS106 with msrp 49$ and cheapest L6 is RB1100AHx4 with msrp 299$. I doubt that anyone would use those features on CRS305 since it probably would not be the only RouterOS device in the network. But it's doable for extreme budgeting on 10G, especially if router/gw/fw is not RouterOS.

[@Chaz393]

can't recommend powering it via POE for extended periods of time (I've had nothing but issues with it locking up and shorting the POE power to the case, that was painful) but when powered via the included wall wart it has been rock solid. great cheap entry to 10gig

[@davidlp6510]

I concur. I had similar experience and even had to replace it under warranty for that exact reason. Use the AC adapter instead.

[@jeremyturner4327]

My POE stopped working after first power on. Did you find any solution to POE

[@davidlp6510]

Is there a video where you talk about your setup there? I am very interest on your trueNAS experience and how you built your data server there.

[@user-fs6jo9hc9j]

讲的非常棒，感谢您的分享~谢谢~

[@craigreynolds4449]

Hi Tom, can you review the switching performance as a storage switch please?

[@JBNetwork]

Give Winbox a try... its the same menu's of the web interface but you can have multiple areas opened in the same window and everything updates realtime...

[@dpgdigit]

Obviously this switch is running RouterOS which is a router firmware. Some device can run both RouterOS and SwitchOS depending on your needs. SwitchOS is probably a better choice if you only need switching because of it much simpler interface. Winbox and Web config share same functionality. Winbox is just quick and allow multiple modal window. You may also check the CLI. Just run « export » command to spit out config (similar to « show run » on cisco)

[@andljoy]

MikroTik make some cool stuff ! I wish they would do a 3x3 access point and get the 48 port switches out. Also going to trigger people now , but IMO CAPsMAN > Unifi controller .

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

I've played with capsman and find omada superior in ease of use. Maybe you can get better results with capsman if you spend time having sex with it, but unless you're a network specialist unify or omada are a better choice. And having compared my 2x cap ac+ wap ac setup with a u6-lr / eap670 / eap653 + eap225-outdoor I can say mikrotik wireless sucks. Their routers and switches are great though. Again, if you're able and willing to spend some quality time with them.

[@ArtiZirk]

`ip -c a` gives you a pretty colors on the terminal. `alias ip='ip -c' in bashrc is a nice addon to always show colored output

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Good point, thanks!

[@AwesomeNickGaming]

Cool, I didn't know about this until I saw your comment, thanks!

[@jamesmartens4873]

I have a Dell Powerconnect 8024F in my homelab, which is really overkill (I'm only using 5 ports). I'm looking at switching (haha, so punny) to a MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+ (8 port 10gbe), and cut down on some of the power usage.

[@rager1969]

It looks like it's a L3 switch when running RouterOS (makes sense). Seems to be a great value.

[@BattousaiHBr]

it's not a L3 switch, it only does L2 switching. you _can_ run all the L3 stuff in routerOS, however it'll run on software on the CPU, and since this device is a switch (doesn't even have active cooling) you can imagine performance is not going to be pleasant. but it does at least work.

[@trabelsiachraf2361]

Can you try to run Ubibiquiti unifi ac pro with miktoritic and use VLAN to separate IoT devices from a home network, it will be awesome!

[@justDIY]

Triple redundant power sources then? PoE plus two DC inputs?

[@InversionesAlfadan]

Hello, do you know how to do a link aggregation between routerOS and SwicthOS? Thank you

[@dluckie747]

seems like you got a bit of network knowledge. Are you familiar with Vyos (formerly Vyatta) and if so, could you share your comparisons w/ JunOS/IOS?

[@bojer1415]

same device start using local isp for providing new speed - 10Gbit/s :D

[@DeLoreansgarage]

Question - I have Fiber to the Home with a 1 Gig connection (option to go up to 10 gig if I have the $$$) Right now I am running a edge router lite, but would this give me better results? also I believe that I have the option to remove the "Gateway" and plug directly into the fiber. Would this be a better solution. Both me and the wife work from home plus we do a lot of streaming and watch a lot of plex with family outside my house.

[@pr0jectSkyneT]

Since this is a managed switch, does it support link aggregation for 20gb throughput?

[@atomsbudgetreviews8713]

I've got a CRS305 as well. Oddly enough, it seems to route my 10G through the CAT port? is that possible? I've struggled getting the Mikrotik getting an IP address from my LAN (which is 1000Mb), and plugging in my 10G network into this switch. My 10G network wouldn't get internet access. I had to tinker with VLANs and failed miserably. Not sure why I couldn't just plug and play this unit into my network without causing issues.

[@Jamesaepp]

Redundant power? Nice.....

[@rosswilson627]

Hey man i have tasked with creating a new network for garden centre nursery and there current setup is terrible, my question is can i get unifi stuff with a uk plug

[@bahmanhatami2573]

Nice review. really good. I have a question not related to this topic. I've seen you use ubnt products, so I have a question about it. Do ubiquiti APs are kind of dumb? I mean if you set them up using a laptop that controller is installed on it, then you turn off the laptop. then who is in charge of roaming and this kind of stuff? Is answer The router? so then this APs are something like bridge between the router and clients? and they just provide layer 1 and 2 connectivity and have nothing to do with layer 3 and IP and DHCP things?? I have no access to this ubiquiti APs so I can't figure it out myself.

[@91yjeeper]

Did you power that with 802.3at from your unify switch? I have a USW-Lite-8-PoE and wondered if I can power the Mikrotik from it?

Wait a minute, in the first configuration page it showed options for Router or Bridge. Can this switch be a router as well??

[@danroberts7975]

I would really like a 10G switch as right now I am bridging a couple 10Gb cards to get by. The MikroTik would be nice if it were offered in RJ-45 since that's what I use. I know the adapters were mentioned but I would need to either buy 4 (expensive) or buy 2 along with 2 DAC cables and SFP+ cards (probably almost as expensive), just unfortunately doesn't make sense for my use case...

[@in2quads]

I am running Mellonox gen 2 SFP+ network cards in all of my machines. They can be picked up for under $30 used on fleabay. These MikroTik switches work with every DAC I have thrown at them. Passive SFP+ cables are about $20 each for 6 footers. You can get fiber cables for the same price as Cat 6a cable, and the fiber DACs are $20 each.

[@lalalu7803]

it is a very good switch but as a router it is very hard to setup, you need to relearn everything from ground up.

[@mrp2301]

Can I use the one ethernet port for internet connectivity?

[@dipasoleha]

I'm sorry, I'm new to networking, if the Ethernet is only 1 Gigabit and you use it for the "WAN", the SFP+ bottlenecked to only 1 Gigabit and not 10G, no? I'm sorry for my English too if it's messy 😅

[@tank1demon]

What is the top speed possible by a NIC connected to a PCIe generation 2.0 x4 slot, or a PCIe generation 2.0 x16 slot wired for x4? ? Can it use a 10gb NIC? Why or why not?

[@electrohacker]

I'm very curious about its heat issues especially when all ports are filled with copper SFP converters. I might consider modding a noctua fan and some heat sinks to it.

[@notpublic7149]

I wonder myself. I have a buddy with a fluke cam if I can pry it off him for a sec I will get some readings running at least one rj45 adapter in.. those do seem to get quite warm to the touch even at idle. A fan for this thing might not be a bad idea in my rack methinks.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

They do run hot.

[@akschu1]

Actual Mikrotik expert here. You forgot a few significant issues with this switch. You can only use (2) 10G-base-T SFP modules because the power budget for SFP modules is only 8 watts. Also, the 10G modules get super hot and mikrotik says that you need to use caution when using them on passive devices. Those reasons more or less make this switch useless for anything running over RJ-45 copper. It's only useful in a fiber or DAC environment. As for switchOS or routerOS, the advantage of having the complete routerOS is that this can be a gateway or DHCP server, or firewall, or whatever. That's nice because sometimes you might want 10G in a small 4 port environment connected to the internet or some other network over 1G. The little CPU in this is plenty enough to be a gateway to another network over 1G as long as you don't have a huge amount of firewall rules. Lastly, the CLI is nice. It makes it easy to copy the entire config to a text file, modify, backup, restore, version control, etc.

[@criptoportugal]

It have dual boot, you can boot on switch Mode

[@casperghst42]

Would it work as a 10G router running RouteOS - that would make is a very cheap 10G router

[@LokiDaFerret]

How much learning curve could there be on a switch? Maybe I should watch the rest of the video. 😂

[@notpublic7149]

5:45 ..... That has been said. :)

[@markshaz8691]

People talk about Mikrotik because the routerboardOS software is insanely good. This isn't for the layman. If you use winbox, you can get to it via the mac address.

[@thdiaman]

that 1G unifi transceiver was SFP to fiber rt? anyone knows if it works with a unifi 1G SFP - RJ45 one?

[@BrianGarside]

What is Switch mode called is it Bridged? very confusing for a newbie.

[@joanrodriguez9852]

Este Mikro Tik Puede trabajar con multigigagit 5gbe (Gbps) y 2,4 gbe (Gbps)?

[@Dr.AnonymousPro]

Seriously, I'm age 54, been in IT for about 38 years or so, and I have yet to meet the network switch that dies on me because of 'bad capacitors'. Those that are in them are barely in use on switches. If you know your electronics and physics, you'll know this is not an issue.

[@RobinCernyMitSuffix]

and if you know high bandwidth network electronics, you'll know 10G and higher can get pretty hot, especially if there is no airflow.

[@X5abeerX]

winbox good tools to contrall mikrotik

[@jeremyrangel8138]

Does it support PoE out to power a deskphone or something? Assuming you have it powered via external power, obviously?

[@lepsycho3691]

I'm sure you already found the answer after 11 months, but for other people there is no POE OUT, just POE IN to power the switch.

[@tudime]

please please please, i dont understand completly, this device is like an OLT, but works like: INTERNET (RJ45) - >MIKROTIC -> FIBER (4SFP ports) -> ONU/ONT (CLIENTS) ??

[@mindustrial]

Would you recommend using MikroTik to a novice networker/home user? I've read that just using the Quick Setup will set up a MirkoTik router well enough to run in a home situation with a few phones connected via WiFi and few wired systems. Or is spending $65-70 on MikroTik equipment only gonna give headaches due to it being more of an enterprise product and thus interfaces aren't easiest to understand for a novice?

[@istoOi]

MikroTik offers many features for home and enterprise solutions. Doesn't mean you have to use or understand all of them. The default setup on the more consumer oriented hardware works fine and you can learn and expand from there. If you wanna test it out, you can install RouterOS on a computer or run it in a VirtualBox VM . Also there is some cheap hardware like the Mikrotik mAP for 45$ (2 Ports + WiFi). For home usage i would suggest the hEx or hAp series (depending on if you need WiFi)

[@babakedhaba2898]

How distance it work sir

[@DrDingus]

I can't seem to get the vlans to work nor find a good tutorial on how to setup vlans in SWOS anywhere from start to finish. I created the vlan (50) in pfsense, added it and enabled it's interface, disabled dhcp for it, and created the same vlan id (50) in 'VLANS' in SWOS with the trunk plus port 2 and 10 as checked. On the 'VLAN' page on the switch I set port 10's 'Default VLAN ID' to '50'. Because I can't have DHCP on for this new VLAN, I manually set my ubuntu server on port 10 to have a static IP address. I created allow rules from LAN to VLAN50 in both the LAN and VLAN50 networks in Pfsense, but I cannot ping or ssh from my LAN machine to the ubuntu server on port 10 (vlan 50) nor the other way around. I read the mikrotik documentation on vlans, but didn't help at all. I have no idea when to set 'default/enabled/optional' for vlan mode or when to force VLan ID, etc. Any help is super appreciated.

[@SB-qm5wg]

Any issues using different transceivers? Cisco, Mellanox, Gtek?

[@kennykropp2309]

I have cisco and mellanox in use, no problems. also 10G DACs from cisco work as intended

[@aure_eti]

I have one, it's good. But i have a little problem and i don't know why this happend: I have an FSP+ 10G to RJ45 plugged to it (Mikrotik S+RJ10) and about 15 meters of CAT6a S/FTP for which i redo an end with a shielded RJ45 connector and it doesn't syncronise in 10G (windows says 5Gbps but i have less than 1Gbps when doing a speedtest). Hope someone who reads commenst will have a solution. :)

[@HavokR505]

im almost certain this was designed for the geek at home to get 10gig in their network and to learn microtiks OS so that same geek can recommend them in their work environment

[@pennakira]

thank you for the video. can it be used as a router too?

[@keto4life197]

Nope and you can''t use it a hairdryer.

[@dealerovski82]

Is the RJ-45 MNGT port only for management traffic or can I use the port as a link to another Gbit switch in my network?

[@isaaclee-mort]

It can be used as a link either to another machine or to a switch. It's only 1G though Edit. It can also be used to power the switch using POE

[@garymccloskey3710]

How did you get that elgato stream deck to work with your linux laptop?

[@sitte24]

He records on a windows machine, the only one is his office by the way

[@garymccloskey3710]

@@sitte24 Ok I was hoping that there was a way to get it to work on linux. Thanks for the reply.

[@friedrich1277]

I already have two devices with 2.5GBase-T. Is it possible to use this switch with RJ45 copper SFP+-Modules at 2.5G speed (mixed with 10G DAC)?

[@notpublic7149]

+1 on this question

[@AlmightyEye]

Yes it will work. Just get a decent quality adapter. You can get them on Amazon. Mikrotik has some on Amazon as well. When you connect the 2.5Gb devices, the switch will auto-negotiate the speeds.

[@leontchekmedyian]

Can this switch mirror the traffic for the fiber ports to the Ethernet one?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Possibly, never tried.

[@ssharpeyes]

Awesome ... hardware .. ... willing switch to it from generic 2k's cpu ... :((

[@hera9539]

Hello and many thanks for your great videos! I have a question about configuring the device as a switch. I want to connect this switch to another 1G switch in my LAN first. Then I want to connect two computers each with a 10Gb card to two of the sfp+ ports. So far I have connected the switch (with SWOS) and can reach it from the LAN. But when I connect a PC via sfp port to the new switch, the new switch shows me this computer as connected, but I cannot reach it from my LAN (the IP's are all from the same area). Why can I ping the new switch but not the connected computer? Thanks!

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

The defualt SWOS config allows it so you may have changed some settings.

[@hera9539]

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS In the meantime I have backed up the configuration of my TrueNAS computer, deactivated the old network card and reinstalled the system with the new 10Gb card. Probably unnecessary, but that was quick. Now everything works as it should - but thanks for the fast reaction! Your videos are really good and helpful!

[@dereksnider7148]

What desktop PCIe NIC would work best with the MikroTik switch, using DAC?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Inter DA 520

[@dereksnider7148]

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS I read that people were having problems with Intel NICs and MikroTik devices. Was that only certain Intel models?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

I'm not aware of any issues

[@Phil-D83]

Good and inexpensive

[@oskArtist]

can port 1 (RJ45) be used as a downlink or uplink only?

[@mightyhalo]

however you want :)

[@slycooperyay]

Both. acts just like a normal rj45 port.

[@McCuneWindandSolar]

Ok this is what sucks. I want to use the switch OS since I want to use this just as a switch. When I change it to switch OS I no longer can get in to it at all. I even used the 88.1 and 88.2 others have tried. even tried the windbox can't get on it at all. any ideas.

[@McCuneWindandSolar]

ha ha got it to work. I found were I can change the ip address or see what it was down were it says Switch OS can I can change the Ip address there.

[@IvarsRuza]

I use winbox to find mikrotiks device. It have discovery protocol.

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Yes and the winbox tool still works as well.

[@jeremyturner4327]

POE stops after first power on. Any one see a fix for this?

[@TheSimonScowl]

I'm shocked it isn't designed to fit into a standard 5.25" drive bay.

[@TheSimonScowl]

@Etienne Right?!

[@DaveBoxBG]

Why SFP ? Is there similar RJ45 model?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Currently SFP is less expensive

[@al0cont]

Can I use the Ethernet port as link to the Internet

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

yes

[@mackie7738]

Does it Work With cisco sfp+ ?

[@robbyandrews223]

maybe too late, but i've heard they DO work with cisco sfp+, they seem to not care what module you are using.

[@Nightowl_IT]

Is there a 10G one with 4x RJ45 ports with the same price?

[@blindside995]

Jan Same price no. Though this may fancy you. mikrotik.com/product/crs312_4c_8xg_rm It is a far more powerful and more expensive consequently. Hopefully, one day they will make a small switch that support 10gbe in a similar form factor. I think that would be very appealing in the current market.