Well said David. I "learned" of Mikrotik about 3 years ago. There is so much, that I am still "learning." It is very useful for many things, more than I care to mention, for sure when it is many $$$$ less than any other solution that can do what it does that it is available in the USA. Keep in mind that the developers are in Latvia... our $$$$ are many more than theirs(or was!) So they get paid well when you license the product!
The doc's are behind somewhat, but I keep behind as far as they do on new upgrades(for the most part). It does so much more than anything else, I can't afford not to use it! Just my observance. Scottie ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "David E. Smith" <d...@mvn.net> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:15:56 -0600 >os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: > >> What frightens me about taking the leap into Mikrotik is it appears >> the web interface is of no use in the advanced configuration and it >> sounds like one must get heavily into the CLI and scripting. I don't >> see an online repository of scripts for programming or even a highly >> detailed help/wiki online. > >The Web interface is kinda a joke, but the preferred GUI is probably >"Winbox" anyway. Winbox is a small proprietary (and Windows-only) >utility, that you can download via the Web interface, that exposes most >functionality. > >The documentation on Mikrotik's Web site is actually pretty thorough, >with the caveat that it's always about one version behind. The wiki >isn't the best, but it has a few clever tricks here and there. > >Mikrotik RouterOS's greatest strength is that you can do just about >anything with it - the same device can do routing, firewalling, traffic >shaping, BGP, wireless access, wireless client, RADIUS, and about 873 >other things. Its greatest weakness is that you can do just about >anything with it ... > >Fortunately, just about everything is turned off by default, and you can >usually just ignore the features you're not using. :) > >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/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $30.00/mth. Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
