After reviewing the comments from the RouterOS Beta channel, it appears that many people are expressing concerns about the increasing size of RouterOS and the inclusion of what they perceive as “useless” features for many users.
As a result, I’m curious to know which features of RouterOS YOU wouldn’t mind being removed, or which you believe would be better to be transformed to package for easy removal. The objective is to let RouterOS focus on more basic routing / tunnel features.
Why does your title imply our 'identification of essential" features, when you are really asking which features can we remove from the core RoS???
Ahhh, south of the equator, even toilets flush backwards …
What I would like to see is a shopping list of functionality that you check off before the MT site wraps up your request in a package for you…
AI driven downloads.
My opinion is we don’t need another pointless thread about removing feature. It only adding new ones that gets them in trouble. Mikrotik has explain numerous times that breaking up is hard to do .
Most people want stable V7 with the features it originally shipped with working. I’d say most professional users don’t expect features to go missing in point release, because they’re not popular. I’m still pissed that I lost dynamic-in rules from V6 when going to V7.
So all these features are used by someone, somewhere.
Mikrotik could have not made a “wifi-qcom-ac” driver — which likely avoid all these discussions — and just suggested folks upgrade to AX models.
I’m glad they did … because it allows me to get rid of all wireless drivers, I’m using my hAP ac2 as router only. And it allows me to unleash full wireless power of Audience (OK, this was achieved by wifiwave2 already).
I agree. I don’t even need to complain on 7.13. Like a charm when 600kb free space. But it is about the addition of new stuff in 7.14+ that consumes all the flash storage.
But they did. And they made one bad decision. They made a monolithic package for ARM WIFI AC devices, called “wifi-qcom-ac”. All these AC devices, except Audience and RB4011, are 16MB flash ones. Still they decided to bundle the firmware for QCA9984 in this package (http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/v7-15beta-testing-is-released/174120/329). There are 2 (!) devices that even have that chipset builtin: Audience and RB4011. Both of these have 128MB NAND storage → and plenty of space for waste.
But it would be easy to resolve: Make a “wifi-qcom-ac-ipq” package and all space issues are resolved with a single action. No need to count peas anymore. QCA9984 takes away round about 700kb of precious flash space. MT, please free our flash memory!
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