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Hardware
CPU and motherboard - advanced 4th generation (core frequency 100MHz or more), 5th generation (Intel Pentium, Cyrix 6X86, AMD K5 or comparable) or newer uniprocessor Intel IA-32 (i386) compatible (multiple processors are not supported); RAM - minimum 32 MB, maximum 1 GB; 48 MB or more recommended hard disk/Flash IDE - minimum 32 MB; 48MB or more recommended for installation time - floppy drive, CD reader or PXE-compatible NIC (depending on installation method), keyboard, monitor
Basic Network Platform
TCP/IP protocol suite
- Firewall and NAT
packet filtering; source and destination NAT; classification by source MAC, IP addresses, ports, protocols, protocol options, interfaces, internal marks, content, matching frequency
- Routing
RIP v1 / v2, OSPF v2, BGP v4; Equal cost multi-path routing; Policy based routing; firewall marked packet routing
- Bridging
spanning tree protocol; multiple bridge interfaces; bridge firewalling
- Data Rate Management
per IP / protocol / subnet / port / firewall mark; HTB, RED, SFQ, byte limited queue, packet limited queue; hierarchical limitation, CIR, MIR, contention ratios
- Point-to-Point links
ISDN dial-out and dial-in; RADIUS authentication/accounting; onboard serial ports; modem pool; PPTP and L2TP encrypted tunnel (VPN); PPTP, PPPoE and L2TP Access Concentrator and client
- Tunnels
IPIP tunnels, EoIP (Ethernet over IP)
- IPsec
IP encryption (IP security)
- VLAN
Virtual LAN support
- DHCP
DHCP server per interface; DHCP client
- HotSpot
HotSpot Gateway with RADIUS authentication/accounting
- Universal Client
Transparent address translation not depending on the client's setup
- NTP
Network Time Protocol server and client
- Monitoring/Accounting
IP traffic accounting, firewall actions logging
- Tools
ping; traceroute; bandwidth test; ping flood; telnet; SSH; packet sniffer
- DNS client
name resolving for local use; Dynamic DNS Client
- SNMP
read-only access
Special Protocols MikroTik Packet Packer Protocol (M3P)
- For Wireless links and for Ethernet
- MikroTik Neighbor Discovery Protocol (MNDP)
Caching Features
- DNS cache
- SQUID caching proxy
Administration
General
- History undo / redo / display; multiple administrator connections; safe-mode operations
Real time updates in WinBox GUI; real time configuration
Web/GUI
- Uses GUI tool for remote administration,
graphing of traffic, statistics and resource monitoring multiple internal configuration windows
Terminal Console
- standard keyboard and monitor connection, scripting
import/export of configuration scripts to screen / file command history, hierarchical command structure monitoring of interface status and traffic, context specific hints
- Telnet
all terminal console features, SSH option, cut/paste of configuration
- Serial terminal console
all terminal console features
System
- date/time setting, identity setting, upgrade, ftp upload, users, access levels, groups, PPP access, UPS monitoring APC, router safe-mode on power outage, LCD hardware option, 2 X 16 or 4 X 24 character backlit displays, configurable revolving system status / statistics
- FTP
For uploading upgrade packages, uploading and downloading scripts, HotSpot authorization servlet pages.
- Upgrading
Remote upgrading by uploading the software packages to the router
- Scripting
Scripts can be scheduled for executing at certain times, periodically, or on events. All Terminal Console commands are supported in scripts.
Hardware Supported
See Device Driver List for more complete supported device list. Wireless Interfaces (additional license purchase required)
- 2.4 GHz Wireless 11Mbit/s IEEE802.11b clients
Aironet Arlan 655 Aironet 4800 ISA/PCI/PC Cisco 340/352 ISA/PCI/PC WaveLAN Bronze/Gold/Silver ISA/PC
- 2.4 GHz Wireless 11Mbit/s IEEE802.11b Access Point and clients
Prism II chipset based cards Atheros AR5212 chipset based cards
- 2.4 GHz Wireless 54Mbit/s IEEE802.11g Access Point and clients
Atheros AR2111 chipset based cards Atheros AR5212 chipset based cards
- 5.2 GHz Wireless 54Mbit/s IEEE802.11a Access Points and clients
Atheros AR5000/AR5001A chipset series based cards Atheros AR5111 chipset based cards Atheros AR5212 chipset based cards
- 5.8 GHz 10Mbit/s 10BaseRadio Wireless
10Mbps RadioLAN
- Synchronous
(additional license purchase required)
- Protocols
PPP Synchronous, HDLC, Cisco HDLC, Frame Relay Synchronous Interfaces Moxa C101 V.35 (4 Mbit/s) Moxa C502 PCI 2-port V.35 (8 Mbit/s) Cyclades PC-300 V.35 (5 Mbit/s) Cyclades PC-300 E1/T1 FarSync V.35/X.21 (8.448 Mbit/s)
- Asynchronous Interfaces
Standard Communication Ports Com1 and Com2 Moxa Smartio C104H, C168H, CP-114, CP-132, CP-168U, CP-104U, CP-134U, CP-132U PCI 2/4/8 port up to 4 cards (up to 32 ports) Cyclades Cyclom-Y and Cyclades-Z Series up to 32 ports per card, up to 4 cards (up to 128 ports) TCL DataBooster 4 or 8 PCI cards
- Ethernet Interfaces
Most widely used single and multiport Ethernet interface cards including: ISA and PCI NE2000 compatible (most common network cards) 3Com 509 Series (3Com EtherLink III ISA) 3Com 3c59x/3c90x series Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 Intel PRO/1000 series DEC 'Tulip' compatible Realtec RTL8139 based Winbond w89c840 based Davicom DM9102 based ADMtek Pegasus based USB adapters AMD PCnet/PCnetII/PCnet32 National Semiconductor DP8381x based National Semiconductor DP8382x based Gigabit Ethernet cards VIA Rhine based TI ThunderLAN based ISDN Interfaces Most ISDN PCI Cards Data connections at 64...128kbps, client and server
- VoIP Interfaces
H.323 Protocol VoIP Analog Gateways QuickNet LineJack ISA QuickNet PhoneJack for IP telephones Voicetronix V4PCI - 4 analog telephone lines cards Zaptel X.100P IP telephony card (1 analog line) H.323 Protocol VoIP Digital Gateways ISDN cards for VoIP gateways H.323 Protocol IP Telephones QuickNet LineJack and PhoneJack ISA
- xDSL Interfaces
(additional license purchase required - 'Synchronous') Xpeed 300 SDSL cards Up to 6.7km twisted pair wire connection, max 2.3Mbps
- HomePNA Interfaces
Linksys HomeLink PhoneLine Network Card Up to 10Mbps home network over telephone line.
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