{"id":27,"date":"2009-02-01T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-02-03T23:08:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T05:08:38","slug":"what-is-mikrotik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"What is Mikrotik?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;\">You guys will continue to see me post about <a title=\"Mikrotik.com\" href=\"http:\/\/mikrotik.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mikrotik<\/a>.\u00a0 Most of you will have never heard of it, which is a shame.\u00a0 Mikrotik is a rich man&#8217;s all in one router at a poor man&#8217;s price.\u00a0 It has a huge feature set including OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VPLS, VPN aggregation, 802.1q trunking, superb firewalling, layer 7 firewalling and policy matching,\u00a0\u00a0queueing and much more.\u00a0 All of this with a cli and an unmatched GUI.\u00a0 It is a Linux base, though you are locked out of the base OS, which makes it more an appliance than a server.\u00a0 You can load this on any x86 PC for the low price of $50 for a level 4 license. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;\">They also sell ridiculously cheap embedded systems at <a title=\"RouterBoard.com\" href=\"http:\/\/routerboard.com\" target=\"_blank\">routerboard.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;\">You will hear me talk about their wired implementations most often, but they cut their teeth, and have the highest density of usage as wireless devices.\u00a0 Most of the WISPs in the area use them for their high features and low cost.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen wireless shots, including both sides of the link, getting 50Mb of throughput for a total cost of ~$500!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;\">Needless to say, it is an exciting product&#8230;or I&#8217;m just very excitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">PS: You can install on a machine and run unlicensed for 24 hours.\u00a0 Try throwing it on an old box or on a VM and see what you think.\u00a0 What do you have to loose?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You guys will continue to see me post about Mikrotik.\u00a0 Most of you will have never heard of it, which is a shame.\u00a0 Mikrotik\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikrotik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}