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HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

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Re: HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

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Post by mindslight »

msmagh wrote: post #136
mindslight wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh damn. I had just gone up one level from your first link (to https://openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/start ) and saw a small list of 4. RB450 was on there (which I used to run), so I figured it was mostly accurate. That table is a much longer list! Still no love for my CRS/CSS, but it does look like that's probably most of the RB devices that Mikrotik actually intends for use as routers (rather than L3 switches).

Interesting, didn't check this url before. https://openwrt.org/toh/start Also has supported release version column, which is useful to have.

note: That page has a link "Supported by current OpenWrt release" but it doesn't include the latest version! So it too could lead someone to conclude many fewer devices are supported.

Re: HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

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Post by cyberax »

cassianoleal wrote: post #94
cyberax wrote: post #85

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Well, yes. But I can do that with a nice UI in Mikrotik. Other things: switch port management and bridging, proxy ARP, and so on.

What about switch port management? I can't remember the last time I couldn't do something with switching on it. Not sure what you mean about bridging either. I've never had a use for proxy ARP so wouldn't know, but I do know it's possible to enable it. If not on the GUI, at least on the CLI.

MAC-based VLANs and port-based VLANs primarily.

Re: HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

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Post by redlewel »

donmcronald wrote: post #69
redlewel wrote: post #14

I'm more than happy with VyOS. Throw that in proxmox and you have an open source JunOS with zero license headache. I do use Mikrotik for 2.5g switching though, zero complaints.

> zero license headache Isn’t it a subscription? And super expensive? $3k/year/device was the cheapest thing I saw on their site or $12k/5 years. 25k/year for an MSP. On a 5 year cycle we’d need to manage thousands on devices to make it more attractive than pfsense (cost wise). I really wanted to try it a few years ago but they seem like just another tech company that only wants millionaire customers.

Rolling release has zero issues for me and is completely free.

If you want LTS(or you can just pin a rolling release around the same build) you can pay for a support contract. Similar to proxmox. The no-subscription product works just fine.

Re: HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

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Post by redlewel »

davkan wrote: post #80
redlewel wrote: post #14

I'm more than happy with VyOS. Throw that in proxmox and you have an open source JunOS with zero license headache. I do use Mikrotik for 2.5g switching though, zero complaints.

How are you managing updates? I absolutely loved vyos but after their repeated hostility towards non paying users I moved to mikrotik for my routers (already had mikrotik switches). First they stopped publishing LTS images, telling users to build from source. So people built gh repos you could clone and build with actions. Then they stopped making lts builds reproducible and told free users to use the preview release…

Rolling release is actually the closer to bleeding edge version, I have been running fine with it. You can just set VyOS to auto update in the config if you want.

Re: HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

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Post by HackerThemAll »

blurrybird wrote: post #110
bjoli wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of their newer APs has thread radio. That is the best idea anyone has had since the mid 90s.

How is the performance of their newer APs? That was always what was holding me back from switching off a 2.5GbE / WiFi 7 UniFi stack.

There's the hAP be3 in the making, I'm hunting it since the announcement back in spring, but it's still unavailable in my area. :)

Re: HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

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Post by chpatrick »

nopurpose wrote: post #124
chpatrick wrote: post #106

I gave it a shot but I really didn't see any benefit over OpenWRT which is plain old Linux. There's also some really good value hardware that you can install OpenWRT on, I picked up a Xiaomi AP for like $30, flashed OpenWRT and it works great.

Any recommendations for hardware?

I got Xiaomi AX3000T, but I heard newer versions can't be flashed.

Re: HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

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Post by rafal_opilowski »

nubinetwork wrote: post #37

I hope there is a part 2, where they make sure the internet can't access their management interfaces...

I did more research and I've decided to start part #2 from hardening of my MikroTik prior to home-lab setup. Part #2 is live now!: https://justsomebody.dev/blog/gitops-k3s-flux
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