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We have been waiting for years for UDP OpenVPN, but we get WireGaurd before most major distros. That's something
Actually, WireGuard has first class support now on a large number of distros, without the need for any additional compilation: Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Mandriva, Alpine, Nix, Void, OpenWRT, and others. Check out www.wireguard.com/install/ for the whole list.
That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. I guess there is some significant demand for it from Mikrotik's customers. I'll probably use it.
There are lots of stable Linux distros running the stable kernel which is 5.8. it is just distros like RHEL that call themselves stable, but are actually antiquated and honestly just give users a bad experience because most of the software is outdated. Wouldn't expect anything less from IBM.
The ball's in your court, Ubiquiti
Maybe Pera will get hit by a bus and things will get turned around but otherwise it's a sad mess and waste of potential.
Has MikroTik ever made any source code available?
For ROS7, however, support said in June:
That is not yet readily available since v7 is not really complete yet and is during heavy development right now, everything is changing, including the kernel. I will inquire how long it will take to get the files you need and will let you know once I have some information.
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who knows, but I run openwrt on my mikrotik rb2011* switches.
Do you happen to know, if the RB2011 will be stuck on the (dead-end) ar71xx release, or whether somebody is working on porting it to the newer ath79 platform with LTS?
[1] - https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=7a...
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I was never a fan of RHEL even before they got purchased. They've done some great things lately with Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, etc but never really been an innovator when it comes to desktop Linux. I see Arch and Alpine being the real innovators, and projects like wlroots.
Just "not for me". It's for enterprise as the name says.
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who knows, but I run openwrt on my mikrotik rb2011* switches.
Do you happen to know, if the RB2011 will be stuck on the (dead-end) ar71xx release, or whether somebody is working on porting it to the newer ath79 platform with LTS?
I have two and just got them working and haven't updated in maybe a year. I use them as internal switches and only really use vlans + dhcp.
It might be interesting to see if porting is a big deal. I have one annoying weirdness where ports are labeled sfp,1-5,6-10, but the logical mapping is really screwed up switch0:6, switch0:1,2,3,4,5, then switch1:5,4,3,2,1 (reversed)
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Redhat did that before they were bought by IBM.
I was never a fan of RHEL even before they got purchased. They've done some great things lately with Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, etc but never really been an innovator when it comes to desktop Linux. I see Arch and Alpine being the real innovators, and projects like wlroots.
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IPsec is pretty light.
Doesn't feel light to setup if you're trying to get a tunnel working between different providers. We had a strange dead peer issue between Fortigate and Mikrotik and could never figure it out as it happened so rarely. All phase 1 and phase 2 settings were identical. I can imagine that happens elsewhere too.
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It's not. Why would one want that workload on their router when they can offload it to a $35 Pi?
I understand that amateurs love the Pi and other underpowered, junk hardware, but not everybody wants yet another science project in their life.
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