We are reviewing the capabilities of MikroTik routers for a VPN project. I’d like to reach out to the forum in regards our project, router capabilities. Perhaps someone is doing something similar with success? We have received some praise from MikroTik devices in general (not specially VPN), and have had success with this “class” of devices for small niche projects.
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We are a municipal IT dept. and presently have small satellite offices/schools we must serve which are in locations with short leases, no fiber access, no PTP wireless line of site. At present we are serving these locations with old PCs (Celeron 300mhz in one case) running Centos & OpenVPN matched with cable internet service. The problem with using PCs is they are bulky, require larger UPS, extended power outages they don’t re-power on, etc. Linux knowledge is limited to 1 person in our dept.
Sites have a small number of PCs, limited and sporadic traffic. Datacenter has an OpenVPN server receiving multiple connections for multiple sites. All traffic at sites is bridged back to our core, so that Internet is filtered/logged.
Requirements:
Prefer OpenVPN protocol as it has served us well, no mtu problems, etc.
1 Router (at core) to accept multiple connections (2-4).
1 Router for each site to connect to core.
Present cable is static IP (Business class), would like to be able to use dynamic retail class service for cost savings – thus require policy routing capabilities (for bridged traffic) as outbound interface would need to be default route for DHCP.
Bridge all site traffic through VPN via static routes or OSPF, and policy based routing if possible. Want to avoid NAT.
Core to Site all L3, no trunk.
After loss of power and power restored, do MicroTik routers reboot up?
CPU power to provide throughput enough for low volume traffic at sites, and enough for core unit to receive multiple streams?
thanks!