Soft routing and hard routing
Soft routing is a general term for devices that are equipped with analog router functions such as computers, servers, and industrial computers through software installation.
Hard routing is the use of specific hardware equipment, based on embedded system architecture, self-developed or ready-made embedded operating systems such as Vxworks, uClinux, etc. as the operating system, and then cooperate with the routing software developed by the system manufacturer to provide a dedicated router Function, software and hardware are coordinated with each other.
I believe everyone knows the manufacturers of hard routers, such as Cisco, Huawei, H3C and Ruijie, and home routers such as TP-Link and Tenda.
What is RouterOS?
RouterOS is abbreviated as Ros. It is a routing operating system developed based on Linux-based Debian. Its boot method is LILO. The more stable version is version 4.16.
Ros's official website address: www.mikrotik.com
Ros Soft Routing Forum: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1ntuVOVn#list/path=%2F
Types of Ros system
There are many systems for soft routing, including Sea Spider, Aikuai, ROS, Weimeng, etc.
Pros and cons of Ros
Ros is a routing system solution with low cost, high performance and flexible operation.
Ros has complex configuration, higher energy costs than general hardware routers, poor stability, and delayed software updates.
How to install Ros
Ros learning method: see tutorial -> practice -> summary -> improve