So the rb450 can be used however I wish (not in bridge or switch mode) so long as the eth1 is not 10mb? I can live with that.
I did a new install last week, two RB433 and an RB333. All three on ROS 3.10. All three at 10MB on port 1.
The RB333 was fine, both of the RB433s exhibited the symptoms described on this thread. Bumped them both up to 100MB on port 1, and they behaved much better, but even then had a couple of tests where the ports became unresponsive.
At 10MB, I could easily force the ports to become unresponsive just by running the bandwidth test at speedtest.net. The download test usually worked fine, but port 1 would almost always become unresponsive during the upload test.
While using one of the other ports may get around this problem, it was not an acceptable solution to me because I was powering the routerboards using PoE, which is only available on port 1.
So I really hope this gets resolved soon!