Isn't Vyatta for the x86 free? I'm not familiar with OpenWRT, but between dd-WRT and RouterOS it's no contest. RouterOS wins.
Greg On Sep 17, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > Several threads have suggests Mikrotik over Vyatta. Cheaper and > better. I have not used Vyatta. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Fred Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote: >> At 9/17/2010 12:39 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: >>> Sounds to me like they are not familiar with RouterOS. >>> >>> Mikrotik's RouterOS does just about everything that you can imagine in >>> a layer 2 and layer 3 network device. It does not perform all of >>> these tasks flawlessly, but the platform is more then usable. Just >>> need to watch out for the "gotchas". >> >> You're right.. I'm not all that familiar with RouterOS yet. I'm doing >> the design now and want to make sure that RouterOS can do what I want >> it to do. Of course there's always OpenWRT or DD-WRT but they don't >> seem to do as much yet. And RouterOS allows virtualization, so we >> can presumably test WRT hacks in a virtual partition without bringing >> down the production net. >> >> UBNT has a little CPU too but it just comes with, I think, Kamikaze, >> and nobody seems to take it seriously. Down on the ground, something >> bigger like Vyatta should be able to handle all of the real routing >> load. So I want to take each of the subscriber CPE radios (probably >> all UBNT) and make each one a VLAN, switched back to the big router >> that sits near the fiber. This is a little out of the usual "route >> everywhere" box. >> >>> Josh Luthman >>> Office: 937-552-2340 >>> Direct: 937-552-2343 >>> 1100 Wayne St >>> Suite 1337 >>> Troy, OH 45373 >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Butch Evans <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 11:29 -0400, Fred Goldstein wrote: >>>>> Glad to hear it's working. My plan is to put a router at the core and >>>>> run layer 2 beyond. How flexible is RouterOS for setting up lots of >>>>> VLANs? >>>> >>>> VERY flexible. >>>> >>> http://blog.butchevans.com/2010/02/to-tag-or-not-to-tag-that-is-the-question/ >>>> >>>>> I'm thinking of using HWMP+ to automatically create paths ("route", >>>>> but not in the IP layer) them across the network ("mesh", in the >>>>> literal topological sense). 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