Network Adapter Review

Create an account on MikroTik’s webpage (the top right-hand corner of www.mikrotik.com). You can use a credit card to pay for the key.

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Yes, you can download the installation from MikroTik’s webpage and install your own MikroTik router. The router has full functionality without the need for a license key for 24h total running time. That’s enough time to test the router for 3 days at 8h a day, if you shut down the router at the end of each 8h day.

If you want to download RouterOs, please click here!

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RouterOS features

RouterOS is MikroTik’s stand-alone operating system based on linux v2.6 kernel. The following list shows features found in the latest RouterOS release:
Hardware Support

* i386 compatible architecture
* SMP – multi-core and multi-CPU compatible
* Minimum 32MB of RAM (maximum supported 2GB)
* IDE, SATA, USB and flash storage medium with minimum of 64MB space
* Network cards supported by linux v2.6 kernel (PCI, PCI-X)
* Partial hardware compatibility list (user maintained)
* Switch chip configuration support

Installation

* Netinstall: Full network based installation from PXE or EtherBoot enabled network card
* Netinstall: Installation to a secondary drive mounted in Windows
* CD based installation

Configuration

* MAC based access for initial configuration
* WinBox – standalone Windows GUI configuration tool
* Basic web interface configuration tool
* Powerful command-line configuration interface with integrated scripting capabilities, accessible via local terminal, serial console, telnet and ssh
* API – the way to create your own configuration and monitoring applications.

Backup/Restore

* Binary configuration backup saving and loading
* Configuration export and import in human readable text format

Firewall

* Statefull filtering
* Source and destination NAT
* NAT helpers (h323, pptp, quake3, sip, ftp, irc, tftp)
* Internal connection, routing and packet marks
* Filtering by IP address and address range, port and port range, IP protocol, DSCP and many more
* Address lists
* Custom Layer7 matcher
* IPv6 support
* PCC – per connection classifier, used in load balancing configurations

Routing

* Static routing
* Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
* Policy based routing
* Interface routing
* ECMP routing
* IPv4 dynamic routing protocols: RIP v1/v2, OSPFv2, BGP v4
* IPv6 dynamic routing protocols: RIPng, OSPFv3, BGP
* Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

MPLS

* Static Label bindings for IPv4
* Label Distribution protocol for IPv4
* RSVP Traffic Engineering tunnels
* VPLS MP-BGP based autodiscovery and signaling
* MP-BGP based MPLS IP VPN
* complete list of MPLS features

VPN

* Ipsec – tunnel and transport mode, certificate or PSK, AH and ESP security protocols. Hardware encryption support on RouterBOARD 1000.
* Point to point tunneling (OpenVPN, PPTP, PPPoE, L2TP)
* Advanced PPP features (MLPPP, BCP)
* Simple tunnels (IPIP, EoIP)
* 6to4 tunnel support (IPv6 over IPv4 network)
* VLAN – IEEE802.1q Virtual LAN support, Q-in-Q support
* MPLS based VPNs

Wireless

* IEEE802.11a/b/g wireless client and access point
* Full IEEE802.11n support
* Nstreme and Nstreme2 proprietary protocols
* Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
* Virtual AP
* WEP, WPA, WPA2
* Access control list
* Wireless client roaming
* WMM
* HWMP+ Wireless MESH protocol
* MME wireless routing protocol

DHCP

* Per interface DHCP server
* DHCP client and relay
* Static and dynamic DHCP leases
* RADIUS support
* Custom DHCP options

Hotspot

* Plug-n-Play access to the Network
* Authentication of local Network Clients
* Users Accounting
* RADIUS support for Authentication and Accounting

QoS

* Hierarchical Token Bucket (HTB) QoS system with CIR, MIR, burst and priority support
* Simple and fast solution for basic QoS implementation – Simple queues
* Dynamic client rate equalization (PCQ)

Proxy

* HTTP caching proxy server
* Transparent HTTP proxy
* SOCKS protocol support
* DNS static entries
* Support for caching on a separate drive
* Parent proxy support
* Access control list
* Caching list

Tools

* Ping, traceroute
* Bandwidth test, ping flood
* Packet sniffer, torch
* Telnet, ssh
* E-mail and SMS send tools
* Automated script execution tools
* CALEA
* File Fetch tool

Other features

* Bridging – spanning tree protocol (STP, RSTP), bridge firewall and MAC natting.
* Dynamic DNS update tool
* NTP client/server and synchronization with GPS system
* VRRP
* SNMP
* M3P – MikroTik Packet packer protocol for wireless links and ethernet
* MNDP – MikroTik neighbor discovery protocol, supports CDP (Cisco discovery protocol)
* RADIUS authentication and accounting
* TFTP server
* Synchronous interface support (Farsync cards only)
* Asynchronous – serial PPP dial-in/dial-out, dial on demand
* ISDN – dial-in/dial-out, 128K bundle support, Cisco HDLC, x75i, x75ui, x75bui line protocols, dial on demand

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