> Not to be antagonistic, but rather to be better educated, let me ask you > this. > What does MT do that Star doesn't do in the routing arena?
In terms of "just" routing and basic firewalling, the two are fairly comparable. I'm putting more and more Mikrotik RouterOS in my network because of all the nifty extra stuff it does better than StarOS (or that StarOS doesn't do, period). Keep in mind my shopping list is based mainly upon StarOS 2.x. * "Nstreme Dual," a proprietary extension that would be great for busy backhauls (you put in two radio cards and have a full-duplex link, one dedicated to transmit and one to receive at each side of the link) I've never actually used this but it sure sounds nifty... * the ability to act as both a client and a server for pretty much every type of VPN out there (StarOS can do some of this, but it's limited by comparison) * BGP (this existed in StarOS 2.x, but was taken out of early 3.x releases, I heard StarOS might be getting it back someday) and MPLS * ridiculously extensive traffic shaping/queuing capability * pretty GUI (this could be a plus or a minus, actually, as the SSH interface to RouterOS is pretty blah while StarOS' console is quite nice) Ultimately, though, I'd say this sort of thing is about 95% personal preference. For many basic jobs, both of 'em will work just fine; might as well get the one with which you're more familiar. David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
