This OS has some good and bad sides, and good are that you are having a lot of control through GUI, quite good performance and support.
Bad things are sometimes glitching GUI<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:) and lack of sophistication. For example, you may create a VPN between two routers, but this company (Mikrotik) understands VPN as Ethernet-over-IP. They don't really care about security. You can add new VPN users, but passwords are not even hidden by asterisks. No L2TP with certificates, and moreover - not even planned. You also have to input encryption keys by yourself, and generate and hex them is your duty, they don't care how you do it<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
You don't have control over the files of that OS. No access to kernel or whatsoever. This is not a drawback, just a feature. It's like having a firmware on router.
You don't have any linux commands here, excerpt to CD<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
It seems this OS is not used on huge corporations, as some features don't look quite well tested. Just this year they fixed errors with scheduling and timezone switching, although they do it quite fast.
What is good in this company, is that it is in fact a normal company. They have an office, a training facility and so on. From the other side, they are not really a software company. Software is secondary for them, so don't expect extraordinary efforts of tuning this OS for your needs. Their main business, as you can see on their website, is selling a hardware, like routers, with their OS embedded.
From the point of view of manageability, it is very good, especially if you are not linux expert, or mostly a windows administrator. In fact, it only requires a theoretical knowledge of networking, but no knowledge of linux required.
Loading time of this OS is about 5 seconds. Quite good.
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Posted by: Administrator on May 22, 2006 04:58 PMThis OS has some good and bad sides, and good are that you are having a lot of control through GUI, quite good performance and support.
Bad things are sometimes glitching GUI<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:) and lack of sophistication. For example, you may create a VPN between two routers, but this company (Mikrotik) understands VPN as Ethernet-over-IP. They don't really care about security.
You can add new VPN users, but passwords are not even hidden by asterisks. No L2TP with certificates, and moreover - not even planned. You also have to input encryption keys by yourself, and generate and hex them is your duty, they don't care how you do it<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
You don't have control over the files of that OS. No access to kernel or whatsoever. This is not a drawback, just a feature. It's like having a firmware on router.
You don't have any linux commands here, excerpt to CD<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
It seems this OS is not used on huge corporations, as some features don't look quite well tested. Just this year they fixed errors with scheduling and timezone switching, although they do it quite fast.
What is good in this company, is that it is in fact a normal company. They have an office, a training facility and so on. From the other side, they are not really a software company. Software is secondary for them, so don't expect extraordinary efforts of tuning this OS for your needs. Their main business, as you can see on their website, is selling a hardware, like routers, with their OS embedded.
From the point of view of manageability, it is very good, especially if you are not linux expert, or mostly a windows administrator. In fact, it only requires a theoretical knowledge of networking, but no knowledge of linux required.
Loading time of this OS is about 5 seconds. Quite good.
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