I’m running an L009AX for a couple of months now, and it’s quite capable. The WiFi sees very little use, and mostly the ETH is working. It sits in the basement of our building and is routing traffic with two ISP uplinks, routing and bridging to several VLANs for Video Surveillance, IoT, home & guest nets, and has several severs; AC2s & an AX3 for my home attached to it. It also runs WireGuard and a PyHole container. And frankly, copes well with all this, without getting too high of CPU usage.
Compared to the AX2/3 and the AC2/3, L009 has HW offloaded switching on the bridge with VLAN filtering, and this is an advantage for me. The IPQ switch in the AX series is yet to get a driver (if at all) to support HW offloading for VLAN filtering, so the filtering is done by the AX3’s CPU, and not the switch chip, as is L009. The AX3 is very powerful, and gracefully handles a gigabit of traffic with up to 20-30-40% CPU load, but not enough ports for my use case and the software based VLAN is not ideal IMO.
I still don’t have a good use of the 2.5g port on the L009, as it’s an SFP, but if I run out of eth ports, I may purchase a transceiver to connect the AX3 (or the NAS!) over 2.5gb.
After setting it all up, I think the RB5009 would have been a better choice for me, due to the 2.5g port (for the AX3 link), and the 10g sfp, that I may use for attaching the NAS. But that’s more cash, with a questionable benefit, as the end-point network will remain 1Gbit with a slightly faster backbone. It is more to my RGAS (rapid gear acquisition syndrome) and appetite/greed to want more, than actually needing and benefiting from it. The L009 will work great for me for years to come. An RB5009 would improve my net a little bit, but is the more € justified, I’m not sure.
All in all, the L009 is very capable and practical. And it’s beautiful and of very good quality, IMO. As an owner, I recommend it.
Compared to the AX2/3 and the AC2/3, L009 has HW offloaded switching on the bridge with VLAN filtering, and this is an advantage for me. The IPQ switch in the AX series is yet to get a driver (if at all) to support HW offloading for VLAN filtering, so the filtering is done by the AX3’s CPU, and not the switch chip, as is L009. The AX3 is very powerful, and gracefully handles a gigabit of traffic with up to 20-30-40% CPU load, but not enough ports for my use case and the software based VLAN is not ideal IMO.
I still don’t have a good use of the 2.5g port on the L009, as it’s an SFP, but if I run out of eth ports, I may purchase a transceiver to connect the AX3 (or the NAS!) over 2.5gb.
After setting it all up, I think the RB5009 would have been a better choice for me, due to the 2.5g port (for the AX3 link), and the 10g sfp, that I may use for attaching the NAS. But that’s more cash, with a questionable benefit, as the end-point network will remain 1Gbit with a slightly faster backbone. It is more to my RGAS (rapid gear acquisition syndrome) and appetite/greed to want more, than actually needing and benefiting from it. The L009 will work great for me for years to come. An RB5009 would improve my net a little bit, but is the more € justified, I’m not sure.
All in all, the L009 is very capable and practical. And it’s beautiful and of very good quality, IMO. As an owner, I recommend it.
Statistics: Posted by loop — Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:41 am