When You open the 'check for updates', on the 'packages' area, the router shows You the latest version of the train in use by it at the moment. Now, I can see why someone not familiar with Mikrotik would think that 'upgrade' is the same as 'we updated our firmware, and this is what is new'. I can't speak for EVERY version of RoS out there, but AFAIK, one would need to change the train from 'stable' to 'upgrade', in order to go from 6.x to 7.x RoS 7 is really promising, but it is NOT feature complete. Yes, one should only do the jump if REALLY needed. If so, why is this not mentioned anywhere near the upgrade options, because as it stands, all my 6.* devices have upgraded to 7 over time, and not because I chose to, but because it was the next version when looking for updates.Īre you saying I should do a netinstall for all those devices to downgrade to 6.49.6 ? And can I then re-load config using the latest config backups saved from a 7.* version ? A virtual Ethernet device will be created and I've set some private address to it (192.168.57.1/24 in my case).So, if my hardware came with a 6.* version, I should not upgrade to 7.* if I don't need extra features?

You need to create another virtual switch configured as 'internal network'. You will need two network interfaces: one comes default, with NAT to access internet and your Dude instance another to connect on X server on host OS (read on!). 8 GB drive, 1GB RAM and 2 cores is plenty.

Hyper-V comes only with Pro versions of Windows, so use whichever you have at hand. Later I've migrated it to Hyper-V for better performance and integration with Windows. I've spun up a VM in VirtualBox and installed Debian. A full-blown distro with whole desktop environment just for one application.

A virtual machine will do as a workaround, but it will be resource heavy. Actually even Mikrotik states that Dude works in Wine on Linux. I know for a fact that Dude is fully usable inside Wine on Debian. I'm not paying back for lost time, jobs, sanity, borked Windows installs, exploded routers or getting invaded by a neighboring country. Let's try something different.įollow that rabbit hole at your own risk. notepad, but not in this particular case. That includes the official Wine documentation. Many would consider Wine on WSL crazy, if not outright blasphemous. First of all, how big is the desire to run this software on Windows 11? Quite a lot, I believe.

Is mikrotik the dude safe