I understand that MikroTik allows apps to run on their devices. I wonder
if writing a LibreMesh app to run on MikroTik would be easier and more
effective than flashing MikroTik devices with LibreMesh firmware.
What sort of effort would this require?
Are there any other manufacturers that allow this? Seems that Ubiquiti
doesn't.
This seems interesting to me for a variety of reasons:
- re-use existing network hardware
- MikroTik has a wider variety of devices than LibreRouter at the moment
- MikroTik devices are more easily available than LibreRouter at the moment
- as the LibreRouter becomes more available and with more diversity of
models, people will already be used to LibreMesh since they used it
already on MikroTik devices.
So we could install a network today with MikroTik, and then seamlessly
integrate LibreRouters when they're available.