If you are looking at density on the switch, why not do something like the old amphenol telephone connectors. Then either use a breakout patch panel and run the Amphenol cable between the switch and breakout/patch panel? If you're looking at 10/25g ethernet, is something like an MPO fiber connector ...

Looking at a packet trace from one of the linux machines, I see the outgoing DNS request and no replies 90% of the time. Looking at a packet trace on the routerboard I see the requests coming in, and no reply going out, again 90% of the time. When the packet trace shows a reply I get the reply back ...

I'm running into a weird issue. My whole home network is based around mikrotik. The main edge router is a rb3011 its acts as the edge of the network and runs dhcp-server, dhcp-client and dns among other things. There's no hotspot on it, but it is the capsman server for the house. The weirdness I'm s...