This is the first article of The Networking Hardware Vendors Assessment 2021 series. In this series, I’m going to talk about some major networking hardware vendors, their hardware and software, their achievements and what to expect if you buy their hardware in 2022.

MikroTik has always been the definitive choice if my purchase target is the cost effectiveness. This is not to say their product is good (the “good” good), but:

• They produce some products that perfectly match some weird usage I needed
• They pack a lot functionalities into all their products so you can kind of expect a high baseline of what a low-end MikroTik device can do (not in terms of performance, obviously)

This is the MikroTik way to find its position in the market.

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It is always a misconception that you can’t access services (management services like HTTP, WinBox or SNMP, and end-user services like SMB or DNS) from a VRF on RouterOS 6.x. In fact, you can, and here’s how you can achieve it.

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