On the Comparison between Ros and Hard Routes

First, what is ROS?
Ros is a set of routing operating systems installed on PCs by mikrotik. It has outstanding features in wireless, authentication, policy routing, bandwidth control and firewall filtering. It is a low cost, high performance and representative software route.
Second, what hard route?
Hard-routing is the use of specific hardware devices, based on embedded system architecture, self-developed or off-the-shelf embedded operating systems such as Vxworks, uClinux, etc. as the operating system, together with the routing software developed by the system vendor, providing dedicated routers. Features.
Third, the comparison between Ros and hard-routed hardware
The hardware of Ros depends on the configuration of the PC. If the configuration is too low, the bottleneck problem of packet forwarding may be easily formed. If the configuration is moderate or high, the power consumption is large. Hard routes have no such problem.
Ros is built on the PC, and the PC itself is not designed to forward packets. The hard route is designed specifically for forwarding packets.
Ros is paid software, cracked version of ros easily cause dropped, lost packets and so on. Hard routes do not.
Performance vs. performance comparison parameters: Full-duplex line rate forwarding capability, port throughput, back-to-back frame count, routing table capability, packet loss rate, and latency.
Comparing with the price system, the hard route is dominant; without considering the price comparison, Ros dominates the stability. Because the configuration of the PC is more complicated, the difficulty of coordinating normal work of each hardware is greater than that of the hard route, so the possibility of Ros failure may be higher. More sexual. Therefore, the stability of the hard route is higher.
How easy to configure features
Ros has many configuration parameters and the configuration is complicated.
Bandwidth control function
Ros has built some anti-thunderware, P2P, and other downloads, and can limit threads. Bandwidth control is more flexible than hard routing.
Intranet monitoring diagnosis maintenance function hard route: you can see every session in the network, the source address, destination address, source port, destination port, lifetime, upload package, download package, failure package, and each The current IP/MAC address of the intranet PC, the number of upload/download packets, the number of successful/unsuccessful NAT translations, the ratio of broadcast packets sent, broadcast packets/send packets, and the current routing table of the current router, each State of the port, traffic of the port, number of packets sent/received by the port, number of broadcast packets sent/received by the port, proportion of broadcast packets/transmitted packets, and current history message record, abnormal record of the system, record of system running time, etc. A series of informative parameters to help network administrators quickly determine the current problem. On this aspect, hard routes are better than ros.
After-sales soft routing is a foreign routing software, and its current after-sales service is provided by its partners in China. According to the survey, its partner's main after-sales service is its forum, and its problems are raised on the forum. Often, it is not its partners to respond, but some enthusiastic users, but often the level of each user is uneven, it will inevitably be biased when the problem is solved, resulting in the loss of the end-user's network; and the domestic hardware broadband router Manufacturers generally have very good after-sales service, and their headquarters and regional offices/distributors have their own support engineers to help users quickly solve existing problems. In addition, most manufacturers of broadband routers can provide free technical support to users around the world through the phone/network/forum. Their biggest feature is fast response and short time to solve problems. In this comparison, the hardware broadband router wins. .

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