Make your own x86 router - EASY!

Put that extra hardware to good use - transform an old x86 PC into a powerful router!

[HeikoRehm]

Love the way Mikrotik preps its customers for hardware shortages :)

[thehoeser]

RouterOS x86 user here. Please never stop supporting this! This is essentially the only platform that can handle PPPoE at multi-gigabit speeds.. my CCR2004 absolutely can't keep up at 3gbps due to the single threaded pppoe encapsulation.. unfortunately pppoe fiber-to-the-home is the only option in my area of Canada.

[isuprun]

CHR licensing looks so much better and flexible

[Pey]

Only if you add zerotier support for x86. But too bad

[dennisolsson]

I am a bit cheap so don't change your business model for my sake, but connecting the license to something else except the disk would feel more comfortable. Like an actual hardware token or just any thumbdrive that is not used by the system but needs to be inserted and acts like a hardware token.

I love MT, hate power consumption and I'm not requiring the performance a dedicated computer provides so I'm not the targeted customer anyway.

Thank you anyway! Had I not gotten in to the embedded systems this feels like a nice way to try router os out.

[core-computinglab]

Thanks so much for making the software available to download for non Mikrotik hardware. I buy from companies that give back to the community. So I now buy Mikrotik hardware because I know the company helps not hinders the users.

[ighor]

What if we wish to add some third party Wi-Fi adapter, will you help to add drivers also?

[xplay]

It is any way to use a wifi adaptor on that RouterOs pc to share the internet via Wifi? Thank you

[bucharestcartraffic]

what do you mean the license can't be used on another server ? are you lost in translation ? the license should be transferable!

[Shajjad_Khan]

My pcle interface not detecting please help

[pedro_]

4:36 and that is a thing that happens, disks die, I had a few SSDs die on me already.
If for whatever reason I need to migrate my key, can I do that or do I need to buy a new one?

[networkpark]

Can I have a budget friendly and decent performance hardware requirement for this, please?

[BrianThomas]

I had no idea. I so love this. Thank you very much. Are there options to support arm64 as well? Like the OrangePi5 other models?

[Meldekopf]

Thank you for a very special video. Download in progress. :-)

[djstraussp]

Just what I'm doing now but, why Mikrotik, why? No Docker Support on Partition inside 1 physical disk or Folder inside the disk. Please allow partitions on disk in X86 so we can install Dockers using just 1 disk. For example a Cloud Server that only allows 1 disk. Thanks

[lucdogge]

i installed ROS on a PC, after installation I can not access ROS. What am I doing wrong?

[EivindGussiasLkseth]

Hm... The drive it installs to is formatted with a single partition, and no boot partition. The result is that the router cannot boot once the USB drive is unplugged. Should I use a different Linux distro to partition the drive first, and then setup a EFI boot partition before installing RouterOS? I can't seem to find any best practices on this.

[jerealizze]

I prefer CHR instead of x86 because of durable licensing management

[aliancemd]

I installed it on Ryzen 5700G for sh*ts and giggles and failed to enable the containers feature(I did set it to “yes” from console) which seems to be limited to ARM or something - a bit weird, since this would probably be the best platform/architecture to have containers on. The limitation makes it less attractive against something like OPNsense.

[ddEEE]

Do you have throughput and power consumption numbers versus LEDE/Linux and BSD running on the same system?