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Does it support Wireguard?

Also RouterOS does not seem open source.

Sadly RouterOS isn’t open source. They’ve received a bit of flak for their “available on request” stance on getting GPL sources too. The fact that their GPL patches aren’t readily available is pretty uncool.

WireGuard isn’t supported on RouterOS 6, which is the current stable version, afaik. RouterOS 7 (currently available in beta) did support for WG in August though, as part of 7.1beta2 [1].

[1] https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs/development-release...

If you have any more details about the GPL issues with Mikrotik RouterOS, I recommend reporting them to the Linux developers via Software Freedom Conservancy, who have copyleft compliance projects:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/#reporting

V7 supports Wireguard and UDP OVPN, it's in beta but reasonably stable, at least for home use.

finally! been waiting for any UDP VPN from mikrotik since ... 2008?

I use a Microtik hAP AC (Small little SOHO style router with an sfp and PoE). You can easily flash it with OpenWRT and use wireguard on that. All open source too.

It's great hardware but I'm no personal fan of RouterOS.

Huh. What's the experience like? Eg are there any driver issues, or edge cases with unimplemented/missing bits of functionality?

It's brilliant, everything works fine. I've even used the USB port with a smartphone for 4G backup tethering (just need to add relevant usb packages, the openwrt wiki details all this). Plus there's the luci web interface which runs like a charm. No complaints whatsoever.

Although it isn't OSS, it's based on Linux and therefore semantically comprehensible by someone familiar with iptables, iptraf, etc. Unlike say IOS which will explode your brain.

RouterOS is not, but Mikrotik added wireguard support to their firmware sometime in mid-late 2020. IDK if its out of beta yet.

No, still very shitty beta sadly. In mikrotik communities routeros7 is a meme (it'll never arrive). Even though its here, its not.

A few months ago when ROS 7's first few public beta releases were out (and before then), I'd agree with you.

However, MikroTik seem to be making slow but steady progress with new features. Stability is still an issue to an extent, but for home use I could almost make the jump.

In fact, if I didn't use CAPsMAN to centrally control the multiple access points in my home, I would make the jump purely for fq_codel/cake AQM, Wireguard and WPA3.

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