Completely solves the problem of Routing Switching equipment in the Enterprise

As the core of routing equipment, Routing Switching equipment becomes more and more important in enterprises, especially in networking applications. Here we have analyzed the common problems of Routing Switching devices in applications. As the core equipment of the enterprise network, Routing Switching devices play an important role, but do you have any shortage of funds when enterprise network administrators need to buy new route exchange devices?

Have you ever felt pity for the old computer being decommissioned? Are you sure you want to make a career in the field of Routing Switching? In my opinion, the above problems are nothing. Because we have routerOS, we can use it to skillfully solve the problem of shortage of Enterprise route switching equipment, with routerOS, we can transform a computer that is on the verge of decommission into a high-performance router or switch. Today, I would like to learn how to use routerOS to solve the problem of Enterprise route exchange.

1. Introduction to MikroTikRouterOS:

The main content of this article is to install the software on a common computer, so that the computer can become a high-performance routing switching device. The key software is routeros, which is a soft route product developed by MikroTik.

MikroTikRouterOS is a routing operating system. We can use this software to convert standard PC computers into dedicated routers and continuously update and develop software development and applications, the software has undergone many updates and improvements, so that its functions are constantly improved and improved. It has outstanding features in wireless, authentication, Policy Routing, bandwidth control, and firewall filtering. It is highly cost-effective and favored by many network users. With a software operating system, we can simulate hundreds of computers as vrouters worth tens of thousands of yuan, it is not inferior in terms of functions and performance.

Ii. Installation Requirements of MikroTikRouterOS:

Of course, the installation of MikroTikRouterOS is not random. Although he does not have high requirements for computer configuration, if the enterprise wants to use the simulated router as its core device for some advanced applications, the memory and CPU speed of the simulated computer must be guaranteed.

If your computer CPU supports hyper-threading, We need to manually disable this function. In addition, MikroTikRouterOS is not compatible with SATA hard disks, and it is easy to find the hard disks that cannot be installed, for example, an error message "unabletomountrootfson01: 00" is prompted during the installation process. Therefore, we 'd better use the hard disk of the IDE interface. Of course, it would be better if we can find the CF hard disk, in this way, the simulated router performance will be better. After all, the CF hard disk has better read and write capabilities. We can use the CF to IDE tool to install the CF hard disk on the old IDE interface.

Iii. Differences between a router simulated by MikroTikRouterOS and a traditional device:

As far as the author's own experience and online technicians feel, the performance and functionality of the routers simulated by MikroTikRouterOS are not much different from those of traditional devices. Therefore, the cost-effectiveness of MikroTikRouterOS is very high, however, because we use MikroTikRouterOS to simulate a general computer as a routing switch device, the simulation result is to directly use the computer's Nic as the network interface of the router, in this way, the number of computer NICS is limited. Generally, we only simulate a common computer as a router. After all, the number of router interfaces is small. Two or three NICs can be simulated as the Ethernet interface of the router, 2 and 3. Many interfaces are one of the features of vswitch devices. Therefore, although MikroTikRouterOS can simulate vswitches and their related functions, few do this, even the simulated vswitch can only provide up to four Ethernet interfaces due to the limited number of PCI interfaces.

In addition, the router simulated by MikroTikRouterOS is installed with the RJ45 standard Ethernet Card. Therefore, the simulated router cannot smoothly Support WAN interfaces, therefore, it is difficult for us to use interfaces such as ATM and E1. Unless we purchase the corresponding adapter card and can smoothly install the driver, we can only discard the WAN interface.

In any case, the cost-effectiveness of MikroTikRouterOS is still very high. After all, we only need one piece of software to make the decommission devices more youthful, and to make full use of previously unfeasible functions. It is no exaggeration to say that many small and medium-sized enterprises and Internet cafes are now using MikroTikRouterOS to manage the Intranet.