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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I love the mikrotik routers, and have used ansible to configure them during automated setups using the raw module like...<div><br></div><div>ansible -m raw -a "ip dns static assress=10.9.101.56 name=server56.mycompany.lan"<br><br><div>> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 01:49:17 -0500<br>> From: paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca<br>> To: kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] need a new router -- which one?<br>> <br>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:34:32PM -0500, William Park wrote:<br>> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:12:55PM -0500, Paul Nijjar wrote:<br>> > > <br>> > > Also the WRT54GL is not as well-supported as it used to be. OpenWRT<br>> > > has effectively dropped support for it. We still use them as access<br>> > > points for now, but I do not think we will be buying more. Sadly, I<br>> > > think we have gone proprietary: we now buy Mikrotik routers, which are<br>> > > highly configurable and pretty cheap. <br>> > <br>> > Which model of Mikrotik? And, who is your source? These aren't the<br>> > usual retail products.<br>> <br>> We have purchased: <br>> <br>> - RB951G-2HnD (about $90)<br>> - RB951-2n (about $50, but I think is now obsolete -- maybe replaced<br>> with the RB951Ui-2HnD?)<br>> <br>> Our most recent purchases were from solimedia.net, but we have also<br>> purchased from xagyl.com . <br>> <br>> One thing that distinguishes the cheaper routers from the more<br>> expensive ones are gigabit ports built in. For our application 100Mbit<br>> was okay, so we tended to get the cheaper routers. <br>> <br>> Note that we have mostly been using these as wired routers, not<br>> wireless ones. (There may have been one or two locations where we<br>> depended on the wireless.) However, from casual testing it seems that<br>> the wireless strength is okay even though the antennas are built in. <br>> <br>> - Paul<br>> <br>> -- <br>> http://pnijjar.freeshell.org<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> kwlug-disc mailing list<br>> kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>> http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br></div></div> </div></body>
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