[aklug] Re: RouterBoard

From: William McKinney <wdmckinney@me.com>
Date: Tue Jun 24 2014 - 18:49:04 AKDT

Mikrotik has been around for a long time, and is quite proprietary.

a. http://askubuntu.com/questions/376717/how-to-set-up-a-linux-server-as-a-router
b. http://www.lartc.org/
c.http://www.zeroshell.org/
d. https://openwrt.org
e. http://www.freesco.org/

On Jun 24, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:

> As I've mentioned, I've been interested in free-softare replacements
> for Cisco netgrear and all the other proprietary heavyweight
> brand-names. Somebody suggested Vyatta earlier, but now that Brocade
> owns 'em (and doesn't seem to care) it is hard to find the equipment.
>
> I ran across this the other day, though:
>
> http://routerboard.com/
>
> Everything runs on RouterOS, which is Linux with a proprietary console
> layer.
>
> http://www.mikrotik.com/pdf/what_is_routeros.pdf
>
> Free telnet demo:
>
> http://www.mikrotik.com/software.html#
>
> So, not quite FOSS, but still pretty cool, at least as an
> alternative.

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