MikroTik RouterOS

hi guys!
i was wondering if any one of u guys has been aware of MikroTix RouterOS?Check out the below website

www.mikrotik.com

It amazingly turns ur PC into fully fledged Router and i dunt mean like router tht dunt have serial interfaces...Plug in E1,E3 etc cards and u r good to go on WAN.
Tell me if someone has experience in this OS...i need to know wht else can b achived with this OS.

Thnx

Taqqi

Hello,

Mikrotik RouterOS is used extensively for routing at the Athens Metropolitan Wireless Network , a free wireless metropolitan-area sized community here in Greece.

It is a very powerful commercial solution based on Linux. Technically it does not provide anything that can not be done by using directly GNU/Linux, however it has some other advantages like a compact central interface that controls all of it's features nicely, a less chaotic development cycle and comprehensive documentation. Likewise it has some disadvantages, like not allowing you to install some of the thousands of free projects that are available for Linux anyway, or tweak it's internals.

Non-the-less, it's interface shows some impresive innovations and I wish something similar existed as OpenSource (actually, if I recall correctly, RouterOS started as an opensource project and then turned into commercial).

I'm not sure about it's complete feature-list. Being a customized Linux distribution it's features could actually be limitless, however because of the way it is developed, they depend on what pieces of free software Mikrotik company has ported and tested sufficiently to guarantee it's flawless use by providing them. I believe this list sums about all of it's features however.