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MikroTik is a Linux-based operating system with all the necessary networking features - routing, firewall, wireless, bandwidth management, backhaul link, hotspot gateway, VPN server and more...
MikroTik provides wireless ISP systems for Internet connectivity all around the world.
The operating system is licensed in escalating levels, each releasing more of the available RouterOS features as the level number rises.
Each NimWave product has a MikrotikOS License:
- CPEWAVE series has level3 license (wireless client e bridge)
- BASEWAVE series has level4 license (wireless client, bridge e AP)
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3 (CPEWAVE) |
4 (BASEWAVE) |
| Wireless AP |
NO |
yes |
| Wireless Client and Bridge |
yes |
yes |
| RIP, OSPF, BGP protocols |
yes
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yes
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| EoIP tunnels |
1 |
unlimited |
| PPPoE tunnels |
1 |
200 |
| PPTP tunnels |
1 |
200 |
| L2TP tunnels |
1 |
200 |
| OVPN tunnels |
1 |
200 |
| VLAN interfaces |
1 |
unlimited |
| P2P firewall rules |
1 |
unlimited |
| NAT rules |
unlimited |
unlimited |
| HotSpot active users |
1 |
200 |
| RADIUS client |
yes |
yes |
| Queues |
unlimited |
unlimited |
| Web proxy |
yes |
yes |
| User manager active sessions |
10 |
20 |
MikrotikOS Features List
Bridging
· IEEE 802.1D Spanning-Tree Protocol
· IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning-Tree Protocol
· Multiple bridge interfaces
· Bridge firewalling
· MAC NAT
VLAN
· IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging on Ethernet and wireless links
· Multiple VLAN
Routing
· Static routing
· Equal cost multi-path routing
· Policy-based routing
· RIPv1 / v2
· OSPF v2
Firewall and NAT
· Stateful packet filtering
· Peer-to-Peer protocol filtering
· Source and destination NAT
· Mangle Packet classification
· Layer 7 classification
QoS management
· Hierarchical HTB QoS system with bursts
· Per IP / protocol / subnet / port / firewall mark
· PCQ, RED, SFQ, FIFO queue
· CIR, MIR, contention ratios, bursts
Tunneling protocols
· PPTP, PPPoE and L2TP access concentrators and clients
· PAP, CHAP, MSCHAPv1 and MSCHAPv2 authentication protocols
· RADIUS authentication and accounting
· MPPE encryption
· Data rate limitation
· IPIP tunnels, EoIP (Ethernet over IP)
· IPSec (IP security AH and ESP protocols)
Proxy
· FTP, HTTP, HTTPS caching proxy server
· Transparent DNS and HTTP proxying
· DNS static entries
· Support for caching on a separate drive
· Access Control Lists, Caching lists
DHCP
· DHCP server per interface
· DHCP relay
· DHCP client
· Static and dynamic DHCP leases
· RADIUS support
VRRP
· VRRP protocol for high availability
NTP
· Network Time Protocol server and client
Monitoring
· IP traffic Firewall actions logging
· Statistics graphs accessible via HTTP GUI
· SNMP read-only
· Network monitor Software
Management
· SSH and Telnet CLI
· Web GUI
· Windows-based GUI
Tools
· Ping
· Traceroute
· Bandwidth test
· Ping flood
· Packet sniffer
· Torch connections
· Netwatch
· Dynamic DNS update tool
Wireless Features
Operation modes
· Point to Point
· Point to Multipoint
· Integrated hot spot
· WDS: Wireless Distribution System
· Nstreme polling and framing Protocol
· Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS)
· Transmit Power Control (TPC)
· WMM: Wireless Multimedia Extensions
Access security
· 40 and 104-bit WEP
· WPA and WPA2 (AES-CCM and TKIP encryption)
· Access Control List
· RADIUS Authentication
· EAP and IEEE 802.1x
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