It works fine for me, this switch accepts all kinds of generic SFPs (and SFP+) I have and work reliable, no guarantees ofcourse with third party accessories. The only issue I found has been overheating with some generic 10GBase-T SFP+. Make sure it is updated to the latest FW version. Yeah, we had ...

Might be Spanning Tree blocking the uplink port. Not just the uplink one, any port with egde set to anything but yes will wait for eventual arrival of BPDUs for a while before getting into forwarding state. RSTP is enabled by default but maybe it is not necessary at all in @hgomersall's app? I thin...

It's taking ~30 seconds to boot from cold. Are you seeing it faster than this? I'm not saying this is objectively a long time, it's just too long for our application! I'm at work (again), but if I remember this evening, I will power down one of my RB260 switches and stopwatch it from power on to pa...

If all you need is a switch, why are you using a router? I've never stopwatched it, but my Mikrotik switches boot very fast. The only way I have actually paid attention to it was during a reboot. Just happens that although I am 26 miles from home, I am remoted into a computer at home. From that Win...

We have a CSS610-8G-2S+IN and would like to use a 1GBASE-T SFP module in one of the SFP+ slots. Is this something that should just work? Is there anything to think about when choosing the module?

We have an unusual application in which a RouterOS based CRS210 is used in an appliance-like system. One problem we're having is switch takes too long to come up. Is it possible to configure RouterOS to optimise for boot time? We need almost none of the extra RouterOS functionality (over, say, SwOS).