I’ll take a SwOS MikroTik over any other manufacturer’s “managed” switch any day, but I hope I am not the only one who thinks the slight cost saving for a device that only runs SwOS instead of ROS isn’t worth the limitations. With ROS I can:
- Sniff and capture any port
- Manage the device via MAC layer and RoMON
- Connect to far away ports as if I was locally there, using EoIP (including Netinstall)
- Have extensive monitoring and administration via ROS, TheDude and SNMP