MikroTik RouterOS v7 is finally here!

you have been asking us about routers version 7 on forums social media emails and even paper mail but before we start just kidding let's start right away router os version 7 is here the beating heart of microtech that rewards curiosity and sparks creativity no matter how many ethernet ports you have what cpu you're running even the smallest of routers can achieve greatness with the software with any microtech device you're getting full features no paywalls and now routers is more powerful than ever today i want to talk to you about some of the changes in the long awaited version 7.1 full release we will look at the kernel changes routing improvements containers zero tier support and more okay so first things first what made routers version 7 finally possible the linux kernel update the 5.6 update shook the linux world so many new features in hardware support as well as new network drivers for example the highly anticipated wire guard support became possible this new kernel opens many doors for producing new and exciting types of hardware you can expect really impressive version 7 only product soon enough router is version 7 redefines routing with the new ipv6 stack and new routing engine you can expect the best performance to date the new features include ipv6 policy routing separate processes for each routing protocol fully functional ipv6 recursive routing ecmp and vrf support for ipv6 we have added proper vrf light support and you can now use interface lists and here comes the game changer massive bgp performance boost now each bgp pier can be processed by up to two cores one for the input one for the output and if we talk about performance there is another change i must mention remember how you sometimes needed 10 to 15 minutes for the print command to handle your largest routing tables well in version 7 we managed to optimize this process 2 seconds not minutes that's right 10 seconds and you're good to go we have added global routing ids when you're running a set of routing protocols in one instance they'll have the same routing id previously you had to change it separately for ospf bgp ldp and so on but not anymore now the id is located in one place and can be easily modified now let's look at some more bgp changes we decided to rewrite bgp from scratch and so we did the new bgp features the aforementioned affinity control reduced memory consumption significantly improved performance dynamic peer support ability to see received routes before filtering and address list support one last thing here we also redesigned the routing filters the new routing filters include introduction of output selection users can now define rules for how bgp and ospf will select output routes added large community and extended community filtering introduction of community lists destination can now be matched with address list rpki support script-like rule syntax allowing advanced filtering and assignment of values based on other protocol parameters for example you could adjust bgp local preference from the ospf constant ospf is now a separate process this change alone fixes many issues and ospf could previously lose connection when used together with other cpu-intensive routing protocols like bgp we also merged ospf v2 and v3 configuration and introduced interface templates for more control over interface network matching also ospf now supports addressing interface lists moving on mpls now supports interface lists it also features multi-path ldp v6 support and some other features that we will discuss in depth some other time please note that multicast and mpls are now included in the system package instead of being separate packages before we continue i want to give you a quick real-life example regarding the memory usage and performance my colleague modis took an old rb 450 with 256 megabytes of ram with router as version 6 he couldn't load a single bgp feed the router would just struggle for 9 minutes and then reboot as it ran out of memory with version 7 the router managed to load the whole bgp feed in just two minutes and it still had 120 megabytes of ram left so routers version 7 is amazing not only for new exciting products but also for everyone out there with older devices it is with great sadness that i must announce that the classic user manager has been discontinued however we made a new one and you can configure it from winbox the new user manager features many new options for example you can create custom parameters and send to your client the new user manager is completely different than the previous version but i promise you you will get used to it quickly and enjoy it a lot another cool addition is zero tier support zero tier combines the capabilities of vpn and sd-wan it provides advanced network virtualization and management capabilities basically you can have all the benefits of a personal cloud without complicated configuration setting up a domain name or having a public ip for example install the iphone xero to your client and join your homeland without a hitch but that's not all xero tier allows your devices to communicate directly despite having different environments since communication is not going through one specific server as in the case of vpn you wouldn't be losing too much speed any two devices in the world should be able to locate each other and communicate through the most optimal path almost instantly with almost zero configuration obviously this communication is end-to-end encrypted don't you worry xero tier emulates a true ethernet switch you can have lto bridges with other ethernet networks wired wireless even virtual the best part this open source service offers enterprise level subscriptions as well as several free plans for home labs remote access tunneling and so on to keep this video brief i won't go into detail for some other changes we will have opportunity to explore those in other videos like our deep dive series what can i say routers version 7 got me routing in heaven there will be more news and updates as we're always working on new features as well as digging through our feature requests one thing for sure the new kernel changes everything and yes proper wave 2 wireless drivers are coming soon so stay tuned we have many surprises yet to be revealed

Channel: MikroTik

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Keywords: mikrotik, routerboard, routeros, latvia

Id: Zp-U7Anv5-0

Length: 6min 28sec (388 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 07 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/always_creating]

Welp, time to start updating books and articles. I’ll be done by the time RouterOS v8 comes out.

[u/Scorcerer]

HL3 confirmed! xD

[u/goiter12345]

It still says testing when I just upgraded

[u/meritez]

pdf here:

https://mt.lv/RouterOSv7

[u/L0mbart]

anyone already upgrade to v7.1 ?

[u/slycoder]

I've never paid close attention, has there ever been two releases marked stable before? Is Mikrotik planning to maintain two branches?

[u/Digi-Fu]

I'm curious now that v7 punts intervlan processing to hardware would that make the CRS line a viable "cheaper" option for something in the core/distribution layers (I'll prob do spine-leaf vxlan setup if it ever gets full support of it with evpn).

I've been using CRS3xxx primarily for just l2 access switches and another brand for l2/l3 core switch.

[u/jishimi]

Didn't they just recently flag it as testing?

Also, is rc7 newer than stable 7.1? I'm getting confused over their versioning scheme...

[u/Discrete_Number]

Just upgraded my RB2011. So far so good, the upgrade was flawless. My setup is very simple, just a few VPN clients and the usual firewall rules. Need to test BGP, OSPF, Wireguard and ZeroTier NOW!

Upgraded by manually downloading the NPK from the website. Downloading from System -> Packages was too slow from my end