@ignaloidas mikrotik model numbers are spec sheets
RB4011: Motherboard used in device iG: Integrated Gigabit switch S+: SFP+ Port 5H: 5GHz Radio ac: 5GHz radio is ac WiFi Q: 5GHz radio is 4x4 (Quad) MIMO 2H: 2.4GHz radio n: 2.4GHz radio is n WiFi D: 2.4GHz is 2x2 (Dual) MIMO -IN: Indoor (aka non-rackmount) case
honestly everything should just use their full spec sheet as their model number. i shall hereby be known as "NOHu-2A2LiP-191c26y", short for "norwegian human with two arms, two legs, integrated penis, 191cm height and 26 years of age"
i think there's a reason mikrotik started giving their products "friendly" names instead of continuing to use their model numbers. because they only keep getting more and more ridiculous
@lanodan@ignaloidas That is basically what Mikrotik does yes. Although they usually shorten stuff down to be only one or two characters. They also do not use +, they only throw it into a soup, using CamelCase if anything to separate it. So the desktop I'm posting from (Gigabyte B350, Ryzen 1600, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, RX 6600 GPU, built in a desktop case) would probably become something like this:
it works okay for routers and switches though, where the configurations aren't so extreme.
i think mikrotik realized this, so they've started giving the products with extreme model numbers "friendly" names as well. (which typically means products with WiFi or mobile radios)
The model number I posted earlier belongs to the "Chateau 5G ax"
@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me@quad@akko.quad.moe well it's not just a NIC, it has a whole ARM SoC on there that can do (some) stuff with the said 25Gbps. A plain 25Gbps NIC is much more reasonable.
@ignaloidas@lanodan It's honestly bonkers that datacenters are putting entire mini-servers in their NICs these days to do stuff like dynamic routing and tunneling.
They say that if you're using jumbo packets you can do stuff like routing and stuff with the ARM, and you could do some filtering as well. DPU's are a bit of a more powerful concept of this.
It has an ARM SoC and runs the same RouterOS as the rest of their lineup. It can be put in passthrough mode but first and foremost it's an ARM router that just happens to pull power from a PCIe slot.
I don't know what Mikrotik are smoking when they come up with their product ideas, but I want some of it.
@wolf480pl their model names are confusing as heck anyways. Theres no way to tell where the board name stops and port number starts. They seem to just break or change the rules when they feel like it.
For example the RB4011 is an RB4 or RB4000 i presume, with 11 ports. And the RB5009 is one level higher and it has 9 ports.
But the RB1100 sure as heck doesn't have 100 ports.
@wolf480pl this is why the 5GHz section contains both D and Q as well. They probably thought 5HacD5HPacQ was too much so they attempted to somehow merge them.
@wolf480pl It's a tri-band mesh antenna. It has two ethernet ports. I'm pretty sure the "5G-5HP" is supposed to somehow signify that it has two 5Ghz radios. One regular and one higher performance for mesh backhaul.
"oh no, they'll get scared if we just give the real price up front" well if it's bad, I won't buy it whether you have a long sales presentation trying to convince me it's the best thing in the world or not.
@quad I know, and they keep changing the systems every now and then to keep you on your guard, and instead of price stickers you get "contact us", and instead of publicly-available firmware files you have support contracts...
@dragoonaethis until 2080 when two products somehow collide and the universe collapses
for real tho, when buying stuff in an enterprise setting you usually end up having to memorize all the product numbers, or rather the system of how they work