Re: Looking for routers

[Arnis Riekstins <rieks at mt.lv>]

Gurus can make Linux and FreeBSD do lot of things.
However, most of administrators do not want that.
MikroTik RouterOS comes as one package - OS and software together,
has terminal, telnet and GUI, is easy to configure and maintain for anyone.

With 4-port cards, you are limited only by the number of PCI slots.
Four slots/cards give you router with 16 interfaces!

One of the most popular application is bandwidth shaping.
You can do it on per-customer basis, per protocol, port, etc.

Arnis

At 11:03, 2002.06.25., you wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:38:50AM +0300,
>  Arnis Riekstins <rieks at mt.lv> wrote
>  a message of 82 lines which said:
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> > You don't need Linux experience if you build your own Intel PC based 
> router
> > with four Ethernet cards
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>Warning, many PC do not have as many free PCI slots.
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> > or just one 4-port D-Link DFE-570TX card.
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>We use the D-link 660. Very good 4-port card, only one PCI slot
>used. Works with the 'tulip' driver of Linux.
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> > install the MikroTik RouterOS software which is free for non-commercial
> > use. Download from www.mikrotik.com
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>What does it provide which is not in Linux or FreeBSD? I cannot find
>this info on their Web page.
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