Hello, MikroTik is planning to develop and build a controller app for MikroTik Devices. Currently we are researching possibilities and options, what should be there and how it could be done and implemented. At the moment we do not want to stick to a specific implementation or standard, but build ou…

Nothing. You call native MacOS and Linux client “nothing” ?

As long as it’s nothing more than that: yes.

As long as it’s nothing more than that: yes. As a Linux user. WinBox was nothing to me, until it was made available as native Linux app. It’s an useful app however, I like sub windows more than tabs in browser, combined with ssh. Maybe there’s nothing special feature wise. But, platform cover…

One reason why people ask for or need a controller software: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/too-many-winboxes/178857/1

One reason why people ask for or need a controller software: Too many winboxes That would appear to be advertisement for “The Dude” IMO. :wink: The problem in that post is using winbox to view dozens of logs from different routers. That is easily solvable by remote logging to The Dude – today…

Seen the screenshots of Dude and I was deeply frightened - I wasn’t brave enough to install it. Basically I did not want to find out if it is Wine compatible.

Seen the screenshots of Dude and I was deeply frightened - I wasn’t brave enough to install it. Basically I did not want to find out if it is Wine compatible. What’s nice is you don’t need the “scary” 32-bit X86 Dude client running all the time… the client just configures the “server package” r…

My first device was a Chateau LTE12. This was the first v7 only device IIRC. I had to use v7 beta. The dude was long time not even available for v7. Long time it was the saying that it probably won’t ever be v7 compatible. But then it arrived for v7. But still the documentation lives at http://wiki…

The Dude has always been more or less in that status. It would be better when it would be released as open source, so MikroTik would not have to work on it anymore and still it could be developed by enthousiast users.

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jaclaz February 9, 2026, 4:09pm 384

No, but there is - JFYI - a new kid on the block: