In your licencing matrix you say level 4 licences have routing support but then you have a note there that says
(V3 = no)
Does that mean that If I upgrade to v3.x I will loose all routing support on the installation? There is no mention about what the note means anywhere, so this is what I assume.
This will probably mean that the L4 licence is useless to us if upgraded, as our routers require at the very least OSPF support.
There was post by Normunds here that at least RIP and (I seem to remember) probably OSPF will stay in level 4 even for RouterOS 3.x.
Look for it in the forum - he wrote something like “don’t take this features description serious before 3.x is released” or the like
You mean, they are just willing me to pay twice as more (for level 5) as i am doing, and then after all they will just say that routing will be included in 3.x for level 4, and all my levels 5 will be just worth as much as level4?
i have seen configs with 40 clients, bunch of VLANs and BGP routing
so they will need to reconfigure their network usiing OSPF and thats all.
as OSPF is internal and BGP more like external routing protcol (if talking about AS)
I bought bunch of levels 5 because that is wroted on mikrotik pages:
level 4: RIP, OSPF, BGP protocols yes (V3 = no)
And now you said ospf will be included in level4…, that good to hear for those who have level4, but I arleady spend my money for level 5 to have ospf in v3 wchich is twice more expensive.
Agreed, but perhaps it wouldn’t hurt to put a notice next to the license level explanations that states that all information on 3.x is preliminary and may change without further notice until 3.0 is released?
that was my point - there is no need in BGP in example i mentioned. everything can be easily done using OSPF. BG in this situation is waste of resources. like hunting a rat using dynamite, land mines and tanks.
but if you still want to do this that way - open up you wallet.
EDIT:
example for IT Crowd: every server in rack mount has to have at least 30" monitor attached, otherwise it is no server.