Hello everyone, we are looking firward to deploy mikrotik as a proxy server, firewall, bandwidth manager.
The project is at a big university and there is almost 50,000 students and alot of people on the staff, they are replacing their Isa servers with other product and I suggested mikrotik. So my question is about how far mikrotik can go with x86 systems specially multicore ones to achive such a high performance. Also the bandwidth is not that much which is a fiber 150+ Mbps.
We didn’t decide the type of hardware yet but they can go so far on that for sure so no worries about that.
The proxy portion will be as a transparent proxy, and they did request it to decrease the traffic amount, so you are saying the proxy srver itself is not a good idea or you mean routerOS as proxy server is not good?
About the implementation it is not the wireless part , there is already deployed access point covering the area quiet well, but they did suffer with Isa server and want a replacement.
About the authentication Hotspot feature also a requested feature and we may integrate it with the active directory for all the users as well.