MIkrotik has been rock solid for me for years. Until this year and the 1072's. 
Random reboots set off by watchdog timer on all of my 1072's. Some more than 
others. Threads in the forum all discuss the same problem exactly. Its a 
connection tracking issue.. however I need connection tracking on one 
particular router. I've adjusted everything I could. Firmware and board 
firmware all up to date etc. Happens randomly with low levels of traffic, high 
levels of traffic, sometimes a couple times a day, sometimes weeks. No DDOS 
evidence at all from upstream routers. Configs checked and rechecked by third 
party experts. I graph everything about the Mikrotik and there are no clues or 
anything abnormal happening before the crash. Plenty of memory, disk space, CPU 
etc. Replaces all the trannies, power cables and such. Not running BGP only 
OSPF on the one that is giving me the most trouble. 

Even have a serial console cable plugged into them to my opengear and set it to 
log pretty much everything to console including the kernel and nothing. A hard 
freeze. 

Then there is Mikrotik support... I've never needed their support before until 
now. So I put a ticket in and the shitty attitude I'm getting from them seems 
like they KNOW there is something wrong with the hardware and they are 
intentionally not being helpful. It is pretty clear to see with all the people 
reporting this issue that there IS an issue. 

If this is any indication of how things are going to go with Mikrotik on the 
newer hardware going forware I think its time to jump to an enterprise level 
system. Juniper most likely. Shame because they are just about keeping up with 
the demands with their hardware. Getting closer to 100Gbps etc and ROS7 ... but 
at their current pace I think we've outgrew them. 

All the threads discussing this issue has been absolutely quiet when it comes 
to Mikrotik jumping in to mention or try to help troubleshoot. I think they 
know they had bad hardware out there and do not want to honor warranties. I've 
heard rumors of bad batches of 1072's. 

Anyone else encounter this? 



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