alt Hacker NewsAbout 2 years ago I tried to use Mikrotik, as the router for my ATT Fiber.
It's royal pain.
Basic router setup is not hard.
Port forward to expose web server? Can be done after heavy docs&forum reading, but hair pinning never worked for me.
I checked their WiFi AP. It's UI is hard even for senior software engineer.
In the end I got opnSense installed in VM on Proxmox and it's my router for last 2 years.
I'm using 2 Mikrotik switches with their simplified UI to operate VLANs. Zero complains.
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Port forwarding is a simple dstnat rule and hairpinning is just a srcnat rule.
It wasn’t terribly complicated for me but I seem to be built for the old Cisco style iOS.
But with an LLM it’s easier than falling off a log and the command line means it can do everything easily.
Agreed. I tried Microtik. Seemed like it was written by DOS people from the 70s or 80s, made difficult on purpose.
I ended up switching to back to Ubiquti.
It should be doable by most software engineers. They did teach some basic CCNA course in the university as part of computer science studies and the concepts taught there should help a lot with configuring any router, including RouterOS. It could also be helpful to watch some guides on routing and firewall on Linux, since RouterOS is just Linux with a very specific UI on top.