Subj : Re: Network
To   : 2twisty
From : Warpslide
Date : Thu Jun 02 2022 17:26:49

 *** Quoting 2twisty from a message to deon ***

 de> So I'm a bit of a Mikcrotik fan - having switched out from running
 de> opnsense/pfsense, etc... They are not that user friendly

 2t> I tried for a month to figure out RouterOS.  Failed.  Another tech
 2t> who is way more experienced in Cisco, etc tried and failed.

I recently started a new job and inherited 9 locations all using 
RouterBOARDS (1100AHx2) with RouterOS (none up to date) on them as the main 
connection to the internet and all VPN'ed together.  Never touched MikroTik 
gear before and Deon is right, it is NOT user friendly.

I've been poking around at these for a couple of weeks trying to wrap my head 
around them, luckily I've found the "Safe Mode" button so haven't gotten into 
trouble yet.

 2t> In short, we found RouterOS to be TOO complicated and SwitchOS to be
 2t> UNDER complicated.   Because of this, the company eventually gave up
 2t> and replaced them withHP switches that people could more easily
 2t> configure.

This is probably the direction we'll go as well.  We're getting quotes from 
various vendors, but it seems nobody has anything in stock at the moment, so 
we'll probably be stuck with these for the next little while.  Thankfully it 
appears firmware updates for these seem to be pretty easy (all of these are 
still on old versions of v6).


Jay

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