4 Aug
2021
4 Aug
'21
1:37 a.m.
Hi Rob,
Not trying to belabor the Linux discussion; agreed, it has been tossed
around many times over the last decade+. I do have one more comment,
thought.
I fully agree that a complete roll-it-for-yourself Linux routing solution
is totally impractical for 99.9% of users and would be a nightmare for
maintainers....I'm the developer and maintainer of HamVoIP (with about
10,000 users), so I know this well!!
My suggestion would be to roll an (almost) plug-and-play distro (or
packages), to make the Linux setup process trivial.
This is doable, if fact, probably even easy to do.
73, David KB4FXC
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, Rob PE1CHL via 44Net wrote:
As I wrote in another reply, for each problem and each
admin there
is a different solution. The RB750Gr3 runs IPsec at >450Mbit/s
which
is enough for most users. Do not use OpenVPN on these devices,
use L2TP/IPsec or GRE/IPsec.
I am currently in mail exchange with someone who wants to configure
AMPRnet access on a VPS using standard Linux software. Easy peasy
when you ask me, but it is a nightmare to get someone going who
has no Linux admin skills at all and is only cutting/pasting error messages
all the time, and not really reading the directions or able to debug things
without constant hand-helding. With a MikroTik he would be going,
with the Linux system he is only whining and complaining.
(but others get it working after only a single message with some hints)
Read back in the 44Net mail archives and you can see the same discussion
over and over, so I think this is enough for now.
Rob
On 8/3/21 7:29 PM, David McGough via 44Net wrote:
I'll add a comment here, since I've used the
RB750G gear and RPi boards
extensively as routers. I *highly* recommend the RPi4B! The difference in
SoC processing power is massive, when crunching crypto for VPNs, enough
RAM for BGP and other system services, etc. There are many OS/distro
sources available and the very latest software version are only a few
clicks away.
Also, MikroTik support for OpenVPN is seriously lacking--beyond the
concern for simply having crummy data thru-put due to crypto processing
overhead. I've got several RB750G routers, they're all sitting on the
shelf, these days.
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