hi Guys!
I think that You can challange with new network teriitories with some new today's user interface.
Besides the fact that Winbox -IS- beautiful and insanely intuitive (can't say that about any competing 'web' interface out there), RouterOS is a router. Not a website. We don't need fancy responsive themes and all of that BS. We need functionality.I mean, all vendors are going for new interfaces that are easy of use and just it looks good. For ex. ubiquiti and bigger vendors like fortinet, cisco and other - they have nice fancy GUI that is just clear. I think that new look and feel for RouterOS management will make more user-friendly usage.
Ok to put some weight on the other end of the scale: I would not care if Winbox is dropped, I almost never usedPersonally I wouldn't touch (change) Winbox. Apart from minor fixes/changes here and there, it's just awesome! It's the main reason I use Mikrotik.
WebFig... I don't really care. I've never used it. It's cumbersome and a bad port of Winbox's design to the web. If web based is your thing then sure, they could re-design the whole thing, but I don't think it's much useful anyway.
Why?Lucky you. You will need to one day.
All this trouble of physically connecting a serial cable to recover the router when you could have just connected via MAC or RoMON and fixed the problem in a matter of secondsI locked me out of my RB2011 one time shortly after I started using it and I recovered using the RS232 console...
Then everyone could stop Wine-ing.I agree though that if Winbox was released as a native application for Linux and Mac would be very welcome by everyone.
++If the cockpit were replaced with a Siri button, (Fly me to Cancun, please) then more people could operate the plane, but they are limited to doing whatever the designers of the interface thought of - you can't directly make the machine do everything it could do. It's a trade-off.
It took me only a few seconds to get a cisco blue cable out of the next room, connect it to a spare port on myAll this trouble of physically connecting a serial cable to recover the router when you could have just connected via MAC or RoMON and fixed the problem in a matter of secondsI locked me out of my RB2011 one time shortly after I started using it and I recovered using the RS232 console...
Maybe I make less mistakes than you do? I have 30 years of hands-on experience with TCP/IP.But when you manage tens of routers that are on top of mountains, roofs, distant datacenters or whatever remote/inaccessible locations, Winbox MAC access and RoMON are simply a life saver!
Those tools have saved my butt from long hour trips on numerous occasions! They are two of the best features on RouterOS. Especially with the release of RoMON which makes mac connectivity available over multiple hops.
This is not what WebFig is, and I see no need to scrap it. It works fine.A way to go, could be to completely scrap WebFig and create a new 'user friendly' web interface, with wizards and whatnot, to cover the non-technical/inexperienced users that are used to TP-Links and Netgear style home routers.
First step is done. Previously WinBox downloaded Windows dll files from router (so not much chance to work with anything else) and now since RouterOS 6.x it only downloads text (json) definitions. Although it does not necessarily mean there are plans for native Winbox for <other platform>. They might have done this simply because the solution with dll files wasn't exactly elegant.I agree though that if Winbox was released as a native application for Linux and Mac would be very welcome by everyone.