[127618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bertrand)
Mon Jul 5 19:18:34 2010
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:18:10 -0400
From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ipv6canada.com>
To: Jonathon Exley <Jonathon.Exley@kordia.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <035FE016D625174BA7C7A9FA83E6C17985C1CAB3C1@winexmp02>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2010.07.05 17:26, Jonathon Exley wrote:
> In terms of FOSS routing platforms, I think Vyatta has a better user interface than Mikrotik.
> IMHO if the CLI is awkward then there a higher risk of misconfiguration.
> I haven't used either enough to comment about stability.
...not that I'd like to revert this to Mikrotic vs _vendor_, but *all*
Mikrotic-specific hardware that we have deployed has always accepted a
custom install of FreeBSD & Quagga, that boots directly from the same
type of media that the Mikrotic OS originally came on.
fwiw, the Quagga interface is very friendly to those who know Cisco.
Steve
