I have to say I sometimes kick own-goals on the issues I encounter because of a new feature or an improvement offered in an update. I feel that, and maybe I'm the only one, maybe not.. I will get to specific "stable" version and mitigate the one or two issues we know about until a newer more promising version comes along and then make the jump after a few weeks testing but run into one or two new issues that I don't yet know how to mitigate, so when the next release comes promising a fix for those I jump ahead again and find myself stuck close to the bleeding edge releases because I don't have our workaround and have come to rely on the features in the newer versions too much to go back to that old stable. Then there are the other people (some others on this list) who will make do with a v5.14 or v5.26 release all this time because it's the best that's come out, the issues with it are known but are still eagerly waiting to see what v7 will bring :-) - Andrew On 11 August 2014 13:49, Mike Everest <mike@duxtel.com> wrote:
Hi Paul,
-----Original Message----- I for one love the Mikrotik product and wish I could use it for everything, but as our network grows and becomes more complex I find myself asking the question of "which cisco or juniper should I put in here as I just can't quite trust a Mikrotik device for this critical job" more than I used to.
That is perfectly fair - I would argue that it should be a question asked in all cases by default, and for all vendor products also! :-)
There is no 1 size fits all approach with MikroTik and the same can be argued for any other vendor hardware I can think of - in many ways: do I trust it to do the job? is the additional expense worth the extra capability? Is the savings in price worth the reduction in performance? Is the additional support level worth the additional cost? ... ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
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