Just wondering if Mikrotik has any plans to offer 10gbe ports on routers any time soon?
Either Fibre or Cat6a jacks.

Thanks.

That would require them porting RouterOS to Cavium or Broadcom platforms, which would mean a huge amount of development or paying ZebOS a huge amount of money.

Normis mentioned that anything is possible on April fools, so who knows you may see an announcement around then

it is possible to use 10Gbit ports on x86 routers, AFAIK some intel chips are supported

Janis, yes we can buy a Dell R610 with Intel x520 adapters and load RouterOS on it, but it's really a bit hit-or-miss as to whether it will work perfectly.

We would much rather purchase a RouterBoard appliance that is supported by Mikrotik.

Hi,

so, one year later. Looking at some specification sheets some chip makers do have some nice products laying around (it is not only Broadcom with e.g. BCM56846) Is there any equivalent product for X86?
As Mikrotik´s software is becoming more and more major, we really need a hardware accelerated switching/routing platform for 10Gbe and up.

Is there any news about this?

Anyone tried loading it up on ESX 5 with a 10gb host nic?

I think there's some routers (Made for Mikrotik)

I have done some testing recently with 10GbE on RouterOS. (pictures hopefully attached).
A very simple routed network between the two test machines.

I was using a small Athlon 3GHz dual core with 2gigs of RAM. The 10GbE cards were an Intel X540-T2 (copper) and an intel X520-SR2 (MM Fiber). Throughput was not too bad but as you can see, my CPU on the Athlon kept maxing out.

I was running this between two other machines (both i5's), one with the X540 and the other with the X520 card.

The test was done between the two machines using Iperf on Ubuntu 12.04. CPU load averaged about 25% across each of the four cores to generate the traffic.

RouterOS version used: 6.0rc11 x86

I plan on doing this test again with a dual processor machine as the RouterOS box in the future.

presently both chipsets and CPU bus-es[and lack[PCI-e didn't count 4 that] of such in iNtel CPU case]unable to handle and severely bottleneck performance.
in fact, motherboards with firmware WITHOUT bus-es flood/overload protection can hang with appropriate message on screen :[