Some Other things to think of and comments from below *N-Stream Dual -- Very good at increasing bandwidth and full duplex operations. But also you can use other types of links, such as 150 meg and other solutions, in bridge and allow for failover between those and maybe simple 5gig radios. You can also bond them if you wished. More spectrum use, but more thoughtput too.
*On the VPN, yep, and now even OVPN is supported at AES256 if you wish. Works excellent for client to client connections and VPN Servers. Yes, you can integrate the MT as a VPN Server for a business with Active Directory! * Full Transparent Web Proxy - v3 introduced new version, its not squid, built from the ground up. High performance, transparent Proxying can be done without issues. As well as speeding cache hits up accross your network vs the users normal cap. * New Line of Routerboards based on PowerPC as well, giving you up to 8 wPCI interfaces on one system if needed. * SMP Support for your x86 systems like the PoweRouter and other PCs. Works great on larger installations that require lots of power. * Multicast is supported as well now! * Varius AirCards are supported as well Dennis Burgess Link Technologies, Inc Mikrotik Certified Trainer / Engineer David E. Smith wrote: >> Not to be antagonistic, but rather to be better educated, let me ask you >> this. >> What does MT do that Star doesn't do in the routing arena? >> > > In terms of "just" routing and basic firewalling, the two are fairly > comparable. I'm putting more and more Mikrotik RouterOS in my network > because of all the nifty extra stuff it does better than StarOS (or that > StarOS doesn't do, period). Keep in mind my shopping list is based mainly > upon StarOS 2.x. > > * "Nstreme Dual," a proprietary extension that would be great for busy > backhauls (you put in two radio cards and have a full-duplex link, one > dedicated to transmit and one to receive at each side of the link) I've > never actually used this but it sure sounds nifty... > * the ability to act as both a client and a server for pretty much every > type of VPN out there (StarOS can do some of this, but it's limited by > comparison) > * BGP (this existed in StarOS 2.x, but was taken out of early 3.x > releases, I heard StarOS might be getting it back someday) and MPLS > * ridiculously extensive traffic shaping/queuing capability > * pretty GUI (this could be a plus or a minus, actually, as the SSH > interface to RouterOS is pretty blah while StarOS' console is quite nice) > > Ultimately, though, I'd say this sort of thing is about 95% personal > preference. For many basic jobs, both of 'em will work just fine; might as > well get the one with which you're more familiar. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
