Actually, What I'd be more interested in is... Why did they make the decission to build there own? When there was something already out there satisfactory that could be used? What problems did they have with the common Open source versions, that justified a huge development effort to rebuild from scratch their own? That information could actually strengthen the reason why someone would want to use MT instead, as a benefit, if it were disclosed. What I'd like to see is Whitepapers on what their proprieary versions provided that the others didn't.
I guess they can add that to the 10,000 other tasks probably already on their list :-) Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Intel-based 4-port Fast Ethernet Card - StarOS >I don't know to what extent, but at least some of MT's routing previously > was open source based, but I believe in 3.0, the open source parts were > replaced by Mikrotik coded parts. > > > ---------- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:33 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Intel-based 4-port Fast Ethernet Card - StarOS > > >> Butch, >> >> I agree the MT graphical interface for configuring BGP, OSPF, and stuff, >> is >> pretty nice. >> >> Can you tell us more about MT's BGP. Is it Quagga, GateD, or their Own? >> >> There had been reports that in the past, BGP was buggy on MT, but NOT >> buggy >> anymore with more recent V3 code. >> I was just wondering because I was wondering about compatibilty with >> other >> third party BGP implementations used by upstreams using different >> platforms. >> >> Tom DeReggi >> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc >> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:01 AM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Intel-based 4-port Fast Ethernet Card - StarOS >> >> >>> MT does BGP and Bandwitdh shaping. Much simpler to use compaired to >>> star, at least you get a graphic interface. N-Stream does the same >>> thing. >>> >>> Dennis Burgess >>> Mikrotik Certified Consultant >>> www.linktechs.net >>> >>> >>> >>> George Rogato wrote: >>>> Ok >>>> What about Butch? >>>> Butch can maybe better define the difference between MT and Star as a >>>> router considering Star V3 which has been out for a while now. I see >>>> Butch on the Star forums, so I'm assuming he knows both quite well. >>>> >>>> Star does BGP and bandwidth shaping, it's done bandwidth shaping for as >>>> long as I can remember, and I started using it before it was known as >>>> star-os. >>>> >>>> It also does duplex, not sure if it's true duplex, but stars duplex >>>> uses >>>> two radios, one to send and one to receive. Not sure how much of a >>>> difference it is between n stream. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 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. 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