On Wed 07 Nov 2012 15:21:25 NZDT +1300, Brett Davidson wrote: Thanks muchly for the highly informative post!
> Before going too much further , too make this a subject on track with the > group, I can tell you that a Mikrotik has a customised Linux machine under > the hood. ;-) Network devices for home networking have never been OT here to my memory. Low power and gigabit is an argument (no go with pfsense there), as long as computing power is available, which it isn't on any of the soekris boards and with limits on the alix boards, hence I never got myself one. 64MB seems a bit puny though. That the mikrotik user interface is not worth its name is off-putting, but the K.O. would be this: > I generally use ssh to do things (the only thing you HAVE to use the Windows > util for is changing the default switch port grouping arrangement to setup > bonding or to arrange more standalone interfaces, for instance as you will > have no access to the unit if you want to change the port you are connected > too). I am not going to start with any device requiring me to cripple myself just to get its basics configured. The acronym soup I can cope with if the documentation is good. VLANs are cool, but what do you use on the other side? Is there some small box that splits a VLAN up into say 3 or 4 ports again? And no, mikrotik is not open source (though the Linux kernel will have to be), but the hardware includes the license and is much cheaper than alix & co. I don't mind so much as long as documentation is good, it does what I want and it's safe to use. They sell stand-lone licenses for PC hardware too. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
