| ▲ | m463 a day ago | ||||||||||||||||
on 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) | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | esseph a day ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> 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. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | znpy a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> 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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