Zenarmor performance @ Intel Atom C3758R

[nero355]

Mikrotik is great, IMHO.

I know and forgot to mention these two :
- https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1280173/mikrotik-cloud-router-switch-305-1g-4s+in.html
- https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1324602/mikrotik-crs309-1g-8s+in.html

Simply AMAZING value IMHO :)

[Patrick M. Hausen]

CRS326-24G-2S+IN here. Plus hAP-ax2 and hAP-ax3. Planning to investigate Capsman soon - at least for WiFi they seem to have a central control plane.

[Seimus]

Keep it that way if you are happy with the performance and stability ;)

I am, for me its perfect, the stuff it can do is above and beyond.

Honestly it never occurred to me to replace OpenWRT with anything else (yet). OpenWRT provides features that are on enterprise HW yet for fraction of the price lets say. Plus I like to mingle with OpenSource stuff and DIY.

So think about this VERY CAREFULLY before you buy anything... ;)

All of these are valid points, when I looked into the Management platform, at least the latest "revamp" sounded to me like a mess.

Mikrotik is great, IMHO. Cheaper, and very feature rich. And reliable, at least in my environment - using only layer 2, switches and APs. It's still called "Router OS" but I only use the layer 2 features. Plus, if you happen to live in the EU ... they are from Europe, too. Sovereignty, customer protection, GDPR, something something ...

This is kinda as well my mindset currently. And strongly plays into the decision making.

They lack a central management solution but if you actively seek to get rid of something like that ... SNMP works great and RANCID supports Mikrotik so you can automatically pull and version configurations in e.g. git.

Good to know!


Thank you both for your opinions and inputs!
Regards,
S.

[Seimus]

CRS326-24G-2S+IN > https://mikrotik.com/product/crs326_24g_2s_in

I like this one, I just wished it had 2.5G ports.

Regards,
S.