MT does BGP and Bandwitdh shaping. Much simpler to use compaired to star, at least you get a graphic interface. N-Stream does the same thing.
Dennis Burgess Mikrotik Certified Consultant www.linktechs.net George Rogato wrote: > Ok > What about Butch? > Butch can maybe better define the difference between MT and Star as a > router considering Star V3 which has been out for a while now. I see > Butch on the Star forums, so I'm assuming he knows both quite well. > > Star does BGP and bandwidth shaping, it's done bandwidth shaping for as > long as I can remember, and I started using it before it was known as > star-os. > > It also does duplex, not sure if it's true duplex, but stars duplex uses > two radios, one to send and one to receive. Not sure how much of a > difference it is between n stream. > > > > > > > David E. Smith wrote: > >>> 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/ >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
