Hi Forum,
This is aimed more so at the employees of Mikrotik - how hard would it be to port the code over to ARM architecture for the purpose of running RouterOS on a Raspberry Pi?
To be honest - I understand if you feel its not worth it. THe 951-2n is pretty darn cheap and has a lot of power for its $$, but it would be cool to run RouterOS on Pi with USB Wireless cards for mini hotspots etc.
Happy to be a beta (or even alpha) test guinea pig if you want to do it ? 
Thanks
No way. What for? Especially on a RPI that slow and old crap? RPI is for hacking, not routing
RPi is not ‘old’, but it is cheap.
In the more generic sense, ARM chipsets could be a good addition for a number of different platforms. RPi is just the first example that came to mind.
RPi may be cheap, but not as much. And count in price of RouterOS licence and instead of RPi with it, you can buy not only one RB951-2n, but two of them for the same price…
If you look at used CPU it is old
just wait a bit for RB mAP
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/new-hardware-map/70322/1
by choosing RPI, we will have some advantages, such as :
so this is like installing ROS on x86 system but with low power consumption
Paul
Maybe any news?
It isn’t about price or power consumption: RouterOS is great about routing but you can have already a system running on Raspberry Pi, and it would be very hard to make same funcrions of RouterOS with standard Linux…
I doubt it will happen. Networking performance isn’t great, it only has a single interface… what’s the point?
None I could see.
Price wise it’s even worse than before. Now I can get new hAP Lite for $22 (incl. VAT) from local distributor and it includes everything (case, power supply, wi-fi, four ethernets, RouterOS licence). Cheapest RPi I can find costs $36 and that’s bare board without anything. Even if RouterOS for it was free, it still does not make sense.
As for available features, it does not make sense either. RPi if great, because you can do anything with it. You can run all kinds of network servers, connect a lot of interesting hardware devices, sensors and stuff, and put all that together in any way imaginable. One thought that I myself also had, is that if you could throw RouterOS on top of that, with nice WinBox interface to manage it, it would be fantastic. The catch is, if you installed RouterOS, you would lose all those extra features. So no servers, no sensors, just regular limited RouterOS. Not interesting anymore.
Therefore we need directly connectable daughter RB board with all ROS features and RPi as backend/frontend…
Is this a joke?
May be..
But openwrt have support for raspberry pi, use that instead.
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi
@marrold:
Why ?
Whats wrong with sandwich-like router+server.
People are asking MikroTik for WWW, HSF+, print-server, AFP, barbecue grill, coffe-machine etc. integrated into RB.
RB mAP 2n seems to be good start for such project.
@patrikg:
Why to use Pi if you can use it on RB:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/rb433
If you want a ‘sandwich-like’ router + server, get some half decent hardware and run virtual machines.
The RasperryPi is terrible at routing packets, and as others have pointed out, you can get a hAP lite for cheaper.
Oh yeah, me, here. 
But I don’t think there’s a market for any special RB device connectable to RPi.
What could work, would be a new RouterOS feature that would allow user to run custom binaries. As a limited user, in isolated environment, to not influence the base system too much. That would be perfect for various servers (simple web or DNS server, full-featured OpenVPN server, …). I know there’s MetaROUTER, but that’s too heavy. Next step, add drivers for few nice USB-connectable devices (something like this for example). Combined with custom binaries, you could suddenly do wonders. Finally, add API to allow use of WinBox/WebFig UI (create custom dialogs, etc..) and you have an ultimate hobbyist router. But not just that, I’m sure that e.g. some sensors connected to router might be useful for something serious.
Apologies to all enterprise users who suffered heart attack while reading this.
You do not understand me…Routerboard for switching+routing and Pi for GUI etc…
Good evening!
I need to test the VPN-server 100 Mbit/s, a few clients on a small device under $ 200 with the OS license.
That device should have a good processor.
Raspberry Pi Model B 2 has a 4 processors core 900 MHz.
Is it possible to run it to install RouterOS?
We have devices that are faster and lower cost. License included for free, for other hardware you would need to buy it.
This one has a 800MHz CPU and is only $39: http://routerboard.com/RB750r2
How 1xCore 800 Mhz processor can be faster than 4xCore 900 Mhz processor?
Now I use 750GL with 400 Mhz CP and if only one client connected to PPTP server, maximum speed is 30 Mbit/s and 100% CP load.
If i use hex with 720 MHz CP I think it will be 50-60 Mhz limit for only one client and 100% CP load.
I don’t see big difference betwen 750GL and hex.
I need 300 Mbit/s PPTP server for 50 users and it must be very small size, smaller than x86 PC and smaller than 19" units.