Considering that routerOS is using the Linux kernel, how come there are no Linux native Winbox and The Dude apps? All this being said, WinBox runs perfectly fine in Wine for me. I’ve not tried installing The Dude in Wine yet, but I suspect it will be no issue in Wine either.
It just seems to me that a company so entrenched in Linux for their main product would have a native Linux app to manage this product.
Is a native Linux app on the horizon in the future?
Well. No one does native Windows-app anymore. Doesn’t make sense to put all that work into a nische application.
I’m a Linux user and does all my work with SSH or maybe WebFig for some cases.
I don’t understand what you mean. Winbox is absolutely a native Windows app.
I think you’ve missed the point of my comment. This doesn’t have anything to do with the usefulness of WinBox on Wine. It has to do with Mikrotik having great familiarity with Linux yet they choose not to offer native Linux apps for one of their main managemt tools.
I’m very pleased with how WinBox runs on Wine. It just seems like it wouldn’t be that difficult for them to offer a native Linux app.
NetBoot is available as a Linux Command Line Tool since v7
Very nice Step, although it seems to be incompatible with anything v6.
The RouterOS command line is working very nice in principle, but an Interface like WinBox always helps.
The iOS App should have most parts already under the hood.
I also hope to get rid of Wine and for a Tool that doesn’t require things like Java, Node or the like.
I haven’t had a chance to checkout NetBoot yet. You’re right about that being a nice step.
I’m blind…
The Command Line Tool is also available for/since v6.
The Download Site is just not intuitive.
Sorry, I meant that no one does new native Windows management applications. The ones that exists will of course be maintaned. All new development goes to HTML5-based or iOS/Android Apps.
To me it seems like all effort should be put into making WebFig on par with WinBox. I suspect things like WinBox MAC-Telnet and ROMMON might be difficult to implement in the browser. All the more reason to have Linux native apps. Just my opinion.
I believe that native apps are generally the right way, and I’m not excited by modern “everything in web browser” trend, especially if it sometimes turns out horrible (hello VMware!). Problem is that it is extra work to support multiple platforms, and manufacturers may feel that it’s not worth it. And the fact that WinBox works fine with Wine doesn’t help either. Also, can Linux be handled as easily as Windows, i.e. have one exe that works everywhere (sorry for my ignorance, I’m friends with Linux on server/CLI, but desktop/GUI eludes me)?
WebFig has a terminal and it’s possible to use all CLI commands as MAC-Telnet.
Which doesn’t help very much if you want to access RB using MAC telnet from Linux computer.
There’s open source client for MAC telnet (https://github.com/haakonnessjoen/MAC-Telnet), but it doesn’t work with newer RouterOS, because MikroTik keeps new authentication algorith secret for some strange reason.
Yeah one .exe that works every where isn’t possible. Even within Linux this isn’t possible. There are a number of different package managers for the different distributions and there would have to be packages for each of the different package managers. It would also be possible to create a Flatpak of WinBox but I’m sure I’ll get some hate for that comment. LOL!
Nice. I’ll have to give that a shot.
I just hope that Mikrotik is doing security properly. The fact they are keeping it a secret isn’t a good sign. Security isn’t something that you should reinvent the wheel with. There are plenty of off the shelf documented security protocols to use that are secure and easy to implement.
I agree. Mikrotik should offer a MAC-telnet client for Linux. A simple binary would do.
Well, since Mikrotik can’t be bothered, I made a flatpak version using the WINE flatpak they released a while ago as base image.
More info here: https://github.com/darkguy2008/com.darkguy2008.winbox