I have a low-ish power x86 PC (HP T740 thin client) with a quad GbE card and installed RouterOS bare metal as I didn't want to deal with complexity of a virtualized environment. As expected performance is excellent on my crawling-low speed VDSL connection, including Cake SQM to deal with bufferbloat.
I'm also looking to evaluate other router / firewall distros, but may come back to RouterOS as I really like it. The question is - will my license be reinstated if I reinstall RouterOS down the road on the exact same hardware (including same HDD)? Or is the license lost once another OS is installed overwriting the existing (and licensed) RouterOS? License is currently showing in the "Generated keys 2022" folder in my Mikrotik account and is tied to SoftID that was generated when RouterOS was first installed
Thanks in advance everyone,