RouterOS

RouterOS este un software de reţea, cu un număr mare de caracteristici şi funcţii excelente. Aceste funcţii sunt extrem de utile în gestionarea unei reţele de furnizori de servicii.

Fiecare model de router MikroTik vine cu acest sistem de operare preinstalat, apand una din licentele Level3, Level4, Level5 sau Level 6!
Diferenta dintre nivelurile RouterOS gasiti aici. 

Avantaje:

• RouterOS operează independent, nu are nevoie de alte aplicaţii
• este mic, rapid şi foarte uşor de configurat
• instalarea durează doar câteva minute
• funcţionează pe bază de ISO Linux
• un PC obişnuit este de ajuns pentru a-l rula
• în loc de hard disk se poate folosi uşor şi un compact flash
• întregul sistem de operare nu ocupă mai mult de 30MB
• este flexibil, uşor de actualizat prin Internet
• ceea ce se poate face prin intermediul reţelei, acest software ştie cu siguranţă
• este complet fiabil, nu trebuie repornit, nu se blochează
• scalabilitatea: totul se poate face cu el de la cea mai mică sarcină până la ISP-ul de reţea
• are o documentaţie uşor de înţeles şi foarte detaliat.

Funcții:

• Configurare
  • Winbox GUI over IP and MAC
  • CLI with Telnet, SSH, Local console and Serial console
  • API for programming your own tools
  • Web interface
• Wireless
• Firewall, tunnels
• RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS routing
• Forwarding
• MPLS
• VPN
• Hotspot
• P2P traffic filtering
• Bandwith control (Quality of Service)
• WEB proxy
• STP bridging
• 802.11a/b/g with WEP/WPA
• WDS and Virtual AP
• Tools
• The Dude - network monitor
  

Cei care nu au multe cunoştinţe de reţea, pot de asemenea consulta documentatia deoarece este foarte detaliată şi conţine multe exemple(http://wiki.mikrotik.com/). De asemenea pe site-ul companiei dezvoltatoare puteţi urma cursuri on-line. (http://training.mikrotik.com/)

Dezvoltatorul softului întreţine un forum activ, unde utilizatorii din întreaga lume pot beneficia de un ajutor profesional detaliat. (http://forum.mikrotik.com/)

Wireless

• IEEE802.11a/b/g/n wireless client and access point
• Nstreme and Nstreme2 proprietary protocols
• Client polling
• RTS/CTS
• Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
• Virtual AP
• WEP, WPA, WPA2 encryption
• Access control list
• Wireless client roaming
• WMM
• HWMP+ Wireless MESH protocol
• MME wireless routing protocol

Firewall

Routing

• For IPv4 it supports RIP v1 and v2, OSPF v2, BGP v4
• For IPv6 it supports RIPng, OSPFv3 and BGP

Forwarding

MPLS

• Static Label bindings for IPv4
• Label Distribution protocol for IPv4
• RSVP Traffic Engineering tunnels
• VPLS MP-BGP based autodiscovery and signaling
• MP-BGP based MPLS IP VPN

VPN

• Ipsec – tunnel and transport mode, certificate or PSK, AH and ESP security protocols
• Point to point tunneling (OpenVPN, PPTP, PPPoE, L2TP)
• Advanced PPP features (MLPPP, BCP)
• Simple tunnels (IPIP, EoIP)
• 6to4 tunnel support (IPv6 over IPv4 network)
• VLAN – IEEE802.1q Virtual LAN support, Q-in-Q support
• MPLS based VPNs

Quality of Service

• limit data rate for certain IP adresses, subnets, protocols, ports, and other parameters
• limit peer-to-peer traffic
• prioritize some packet flows over others
• use queue bursts for faster web browsing
• apply queues on fixed time intervals
• share available traffic among users equally, or depending on the load of the channel

Hotspot

• Plug-n-Play access to the Network
• Authentication of local Network Clients
• User Accounting
• RADIUS support for Authentication and Accounting
• Configurable bypass for non-interactive devices
• Walled garden for browsing exceptions
• Trial user and Advertisement modes

WEB proxy

• Regular HTTP proxy
• Transparent proxy
• Access List by source, destination, URL and requested method (HTTP firewall)
• Cache Access List
• Direct Access List
• Logging facility
• SOCKS proxy support
• Parent proxy support
• Cache storage on external drives

Tools

• Ping, traceroute
• Bandwidth test, ping flood
• Packet sniffer, torch
• Telnet, SSH
• E-mail and SMS send tools
• Automated script execution tools
• CALEA data mirroring
• File Fetch tool
• Active connection table
• NTP Client and Server
• TFTP server
• Dynamic DNS updater
• VRRP redundancy support
• SNMP for providing graphs and stats
• RADIUS client and server (User Manager)