Ah, yeah, Linode is a major hosting company.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com> To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 8:28:58 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik I guess I didn't know what Linode was. I suppose The Dude? Just about anything else that would run on RouterOS I wouldn't think to run remotely. On 6/10/2020 9:24 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > Not questioning virtualized routers, but locating them at a remote hosting > service like Linode instead of near your infrastructure. > > Storage, computation or command-and-control intensive functions can be "in > the cloud" (as long as latency doesn't get too high), but it seems like > edge/core/access routers need to be connected to the physical infrastructure. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 8:08 AM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik > > Yeah. I was resistant to that idea for a long time, but the push for more > mbps for fewer dollars makes it hard to ignore. > > The future is layer2 to remote locations, and layer3 on virtual routers in > the core. > > > On 6/10/2020 9:01 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: >> Oh, for sure. Virtualized routers are where the industry is going, whether >> it's a VM running on your compute infrastructure or on your switch\router. >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> >> Midwest Internet Exchange >> >> The Brothers WISP >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dennis Burgess via AF" <af@af.afmug.com> >> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> >> Cc: "Dennis Burgess" <dmburg...@linktechs.net> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 6:56:29 AM >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik >> >> Most people don't use them in the "cloud" but they run them in their data >> center, i.e. instead of a physical box in front of the servers, they just >> run it on their servers. Not stating that this is good or bad, just another >> design choice. I have complicated this, but cannot justify when I already >> have hardware running. >> >> >> >> Dennis Burgess >> >> Mikrotik : Trainer, Network Associate, Routing Engineer, Wireless Engineer, >> Traffic Control Engineer, Inter-Networking Engineer, Security Engineer, >> Enterprise Wireless Engineer >> Hurricane Electric: IPv6 Sage Level >> Cambium: ePMP >> >> Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second Edition" >> Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services >> Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net >> Create Wireless Coverage's with www.towercoverage.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mike Hammett >> Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 7:38 PM >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik >> >> VPN concentrator is about the only think I can think of. >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> >> Midwest Internet Exchange >> >> The Brothers WISP >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> >> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 7:32:01 PM >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik >> >> OK, I'm willing to appear stupid and ask the question. What do you do with >> a router in the cloud? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Matt >> Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 6:27 PM >> To: af@af.afmug.com >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik >> >> Managed to get it setup on Linode and seems to be working quite well. >> >> https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CHR_Linode >> >> Anyone else using Linode? >> >>> Anyone using a cloud hosted Mikrotik router? Where and how much? We >>> have one Mikrotik we use to terminate a number of tunnels for modem >>> management and when its fiber got cut last time it made us think a >>> cloud solution might be better. >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
