alt Hacker Newson the other hand i got a mikrotik a while back and while setting it up it was silently phoning home.
I installed openwrt and then installed it on many mikrotik routers over the years. to be honest, not so much traditional routers (wifi+4-5 ports) but on ~10 port mikrotik switches for my infra.
i've since been switching to zyxel gs1900-* switches (up to 48 ports with openwrt)
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znpy • last Sunday at 8:37 PM
> i've since been switching to zyxel gs1900-* switches (up to 48 ports with openwrt)
I’m sorry what? You can run openwrt on that line of switches?
I just have a 24-port one at home running stock firmware…
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> on the other hand i got a mikrotik a while back and while setting it up it was silently phoning home
Yes, I think it connects to the mikrotik cloud automatically to setup a usable external DNS to your device, but I believe access to it is turned off by default unless you turn it on.
https://manual.mikrotik.com/docs/network-management/cloud/
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/ROS/pages/197984280/Ba...
The other reason is for updates, it can check periodically for firmware updates.
But outside of that it's not like streaming network telemetry or anything like that.