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SWOS DEAD?

Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:10 am

In this business, "no news" is never "good news", so it would appear that Mikrotik has abandoned SWOS.

It has been over a year, almost 14 months, since 1.6 was released and there is no word on 1.7 or 2.0 or fixes to any of the outstanding issues/requests.

SWOS is Dead?
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:44 am

In this business, "no news" is never "good news", so it would appear that Mikrotik has abandoned SWOS.

It has been over a year, almost 14 months, since 1.6 was released and there is no word on 1.7 or 2.0 or fixes to any of the outstanding issues/requests.

SWOS is Dead?
Unfortunately, you appear to be correct...
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:19 am

I also think its dead but there is one thing.

You have to understand that rb250gs is low-cost Gb managed switch so it doesnt fit to core net. I have about 100+ rb250gs and they are very good but only on the end of the network or in small networks.

So conclusion is you dont need newer fw, 1.6 is good.
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:46 pm

I too believe the entire project is dead.

The idea was good, except the 250GS was a disaster for VLAN usage. It is essentially useless in a VLAN environment as it lacks some very key basic abilities that should always be available in a VLAN environment. This was a HUGE mistake by Mikrotik. For the 250GS it is also a hardware limitation so there is no answer to the problem.

SwOS is a good concept, but it needs serious development. To me it is the equivalent of ROS 1.02 (If that ever existed)

SwOS is dead.
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:46 am

I think they should make fw 1.8 without vlans and then all should be ok.
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Sat Dec 01, 2012 3:22 pm

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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:11 pm

My christmas wish list

I would like to see Mikrotik compete with Ubiquiti and their new line of tough switches.

Configurations I would like to see

8 port 10/100 with and without poe
8 port 10.100/1000 with and without poe

24 port 10/100 with and without poe
24 port 10/100/100 with and without poe

I would like to see the poe models have similar qualities to the RB750. I like that I can infact power the RB750 with poe and then power ubiquiti access points off the RB
The only thing I find lacking with the 750 UP is the ability to missuse the hardware as a switch and add vlan tags to ingress packets on the port level. If there is a way to do that please slap me silly and point me to a howto.

Otherwise I am a huge fan keep up the great work :D
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:45 pm

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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Wed Feb 13, 2013 12:45 pm

mikrotik have plans to resume SWOS development ?
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:09 pm

If it is dead why do they release the new switch model 260GS?

http://routerboard.com/RB260GS
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:36 am

I just received a 260GS with 1.7 firmware.
Since i'm new to SWOS I can't tell what are the improvements.

Also, it's not available for download on Mikrotik website .. strange.
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Wed Feb 20, 2013 4:25 pm

I've just checked the download site & SWOS 1.7 is now there, including for the RB250GS, however the change list is minimal:

What's new in 1.7:

*) updated web look
*) fixed problem - setting link speed (without autoconfiguration) did not
work (allways 10Mbits was used)

Given that there's still a few other outstanding issues, I'm hoping this means that more SWOS releases will follow soon.
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:08 pm

Yep 1.7 is now available for download.

I'm playing with my 260GS since few hours and I realized that the VLANS tab is very different from what I can see here :
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/SwOS/SWOS ... woSwitches

Maybe this is an evolution from 1.6 as well ?

I have read lots of complains about VLAN on SWOS, but it is working fine on mine so far.
 
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Re: SWOS DEAD?

Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:23 pm

1.7 installed on my RB250GS, works good, the management website was refreshed with a new css set i think, but no other visible changes.

I hope, that i get an answer back from mikrotik regarding the further development of SwOS, i will update my post, as soon when i get one.

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