There is something like “User Friendliness”. Which is a forgotton word in some parts of the SW-developing community. Especially in the part of the community envolved in “Open Source” / LINUX.
For some serious reasons, one of the founders of SAP sponsors an education department at one of the German universities, which especially takes care of this aspect of SW development
To answer your question: I am German, actually in UA to take care of one of my remote offices.
Cause I need a ROS license, I thought, o well, the easiest is to go to their web site, to buy one. They even have an online-shop, so credit card payment will be easy, everything is a piece of cake.
Sounds reasonable, or not ?
Now obviously I have to look for some other solution.
Sure, I have VoIP available, I could try to do some phone calls back to Germany to the credit card company. But I am a lazy guy.
A more sales oriented approach would not harm, right ?
How about a version of Winbox that remembers all the window arrangements that you have made even after a reboot!
Also a separate configure menu for each window allowing for easier selects of visible columns.
Well you’re right, that does work, but the point is it shouldn’t have to be that “tricky”. I would like to see a feature that would allow you to save window preferences, including column arrangements to a separate file that winbox would read every time it loads. Once saved, it would only be overridden by a save window preferences command again. Or something like that… Anything to relieve me from having to rearrange all my monitoring windows.
so you are saying that window layouts are not saved with winbox “reboot” button, but are saved if reboot is typed in terminal? sounds like a bug, I will test
I would like to make a similar and possibly easier to implement request. Have a mikrotik utility that makes it a master over a common layer 3/4 switch like procurve, or being able to stack MT hardware to achieve a single interface with large numbers of IO. Command mapping and port information should be transparent and capabilities of the device should available for all overlapping functionality.
Please oh please give me a RB with SFP ports so I can mix and match my interfaces for the requirements.
4 Ethernet Ports - one fixed PoE for power, and three SFP slots for whatever, copper, fiber, etc.
Give it a mid-range CPU so it will still run over PoE
Add one, maybe even two mini-pci slots for some extra flexibility
Also if you can make ROS support hot plugging the SFP’s that’s even better
Maybe Mikrotik should build a modular router, build a base board and then sell add-on modules for interface types. It would be something like ordering a Cisco access router, then selecting the WIC’s you need for your deployment. Put the board in an enclosure with slots for the add-on cards, and simply slide in the cards as needed. Also in this case it’s almost a requirement to make the slots hot plugable. That would be a cool device, a base board with one or two ethernet ports, and slots for 4-6 cards supporting anything from WLAN to DSL to fiber. Depending on the design of the cards and enclosure it might end up being a good way to shield WLAN cards from each other as they each have their own slot inside a metal frame.
I mentioned this on Ubiquiti’s forums, but you guys may be better to roll out a product faster…I would like to see a 4-5 port switch (RB450 size?) that runs over high power PoE, and can itself supply a few devices with PoE. Then if possible add the option in ROS to power up/down/cycle a port.
I don’t use RB1000’s as I’m running x86 servers for “big” routers, but make a 1u rackmount case that TWO RB1000’s will fit into. In the case install a power supply that runs both boards, and has two external power plugs so we can run off of two power circuits for failover. Some of us are in real data centers moving a lot of packets around, and although I don’t fully trust ROS for mission critical networks I’d surely find a use for a pair of 1000’s in 1u of space.
ADSL mini-PCI card anyone? I would love to see a ADSL or ADSL2+ interface that can be housed right in a router board enclosure. I know many use MT for wireless, but a bunch of us use it for strictly hard wired networks. A lot of our customers or DSL users.
I would like to see an option to set bonding of two or more wan interfaces in similar way as bridging - one simply set which interfaces are bonded, set bonding options and afterwards use bonded interface as single wan interface.
As it si now setting bonding in Mikrotik is far from easy and for some uses it is hard to accomplish and hard to maintain or debug if something goes wrong.