--- On Sat, 11/17/12, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:

> $300 is a scary figure.  Turns out, if you're not
> married to Apple gear, you can do everything you want with
> the following $75 box:
> 
> http://routerboard.com/RB751G-2HnD
[...]
> Mikrotiks are ass-kicking devices.  I bought my first
> one in 2007, and it's been sitting at the top of a windmill
> in an unventilated metal box in the Sonoran Desert outback
> routing packets for five years without a break.

Sorry to resurrect an old-ish (and slightly off-topic) thread,
but can anyone who has used one of the Mikrotiks comment on the
security of the embedded RouterOS? I looked at the description
and it sounds like a great little box, but I haven't been able
to find much info (either way) on the security aspects of the
firmware. The only thing I found that seems relevant is this:

http://felinemenace.org/~andrewg/MikroTik_Router_Security_Analysis_Part1/

... but that's over five years old, so I'm not sure how relevant
it is anymore.

I ask because I live in an area where people have been known
to wardrive regularly, build pringle-can 2.4GHz antennas just
for fun, etc. So while I can satisfy myself about the "hardness"
of various third-party firmwares like DD-WRT, OpenWRT, and the
like, none of those seem to support the RB751G, so I'd need to
rely on the stock firmware.

Again, my apologies if this is too far off-topic. Thanks in
advance.

-H
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