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Re:“Sonicwall products are not returnable” by fencepost on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:55PM (#12464550)
Mikrotiks are remarkably powerful if you have knowledge and are willing and able to configure them properly. They are rock-solid routers with a great feature set, and we use them at almost all of our customers (except ones where we still haven't replaced older routers).

Sonicwalls have a comparable feature set for hardware and basic networking, but also add the ability to do some UTM on the device - things like content filtering, antivirus, etc. for traffic passing through. There's nothing comparable that I've ever heard of on the Mikrotiks.

Re:“Sonicwall products are not returnable” by Alupis on Friday September 09, 2016 @02:52PM (#12465056)
> things like content filtering, antivirus, etc. for traffic passing through

In fairness, I believe these are subscription based services on the sonicwall (at least it was when I had a sonicwall). The same features would normally be implemented in different devices, and could still be with a mikrotik.

And I don't see a reason why something couldn't be done on the mikrotik - either natively with some scripting, or by making use of the meta-router functionality (a linux vm running on the router which you can pass traffic too and have advanced stuff done)

Re:“Sonicwall products are not returnable” by shwash on Friday September 09, 2016 @08:08PM (#12466937)
>They are rock-solid routers

They are not rock-solid routers and frequently ship buggy releases, especially if you are using advanced features or their wireless offerings. They are great, they have a ton of powerful features, but don't use them unless you plan to spend time maintaining them and learning a lot about them.

Manipulating their firewall rules is also a really cool way to intro yourself to iptables concepts.