It's completely free, only limited to 1Mbit/s, but otherwise you can test any config you want. VM = Virtual Machine, right? So you download CHR, which is fully functional RouterOS. Now I've to download a VM and install both systems on my PC (pollution), configure VM interfaces (conflicts) and I'm connected to a live environment. some sensors connected to router might be useful for something serious.Īpologies to all enterprise users who suffered heart attack while reading this. Finally, add API to allow use of WinBox/WebFig UI (create custom dialogs, etc.) and you have an ultimate hobbyist router. Combined with custom binaries, you could suddenly do wonders. Next step, add drivers for few nice USB-connectable devices (something like this for example). I know there's MetaROUTER, but that's too heavy. That would be perfect for various servers (simple web or DNS server, full-featured OpenVPN server. As a limited user, in isolated environment, to not influence the base system too much. What could work, would be a new RouterOS feature that would allow user to run custom binaries. But I don't think there's a market for any special RB device connectable to RPi. People are asking MikroTik for Oh yeah, me, here.
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