I think you can consider a Ros device as something like a piano. ![:shock:]( "Shocked")
The instrument, under the right hands, can do marvels, but to master it years of study and practice are needed.
But all you want to do is learning some basics in order to play "Happy birthday to you" or "White Christmas" at the next suitable occasion.
It Is definitely doable and you did the right thing buying the hex on the cheap to play with.
The (big) difference between a "SoHo" device (like the hex) and a "professional" device is that the first comes with a basic (but good/working) default configuration including a set of firewall rules, whilst the latter will come with no (or very minimal) configuration.
So a good idea is to start from a "clean" (reset configuration) on the hex, get familiar with Winbox and terminal and do experiments on that base, so that when you will get the CCR you will be able to "replicate" the hex configuration on it.
But unless you need anything more advanced, there are only a handful of things/concepts that you have to understand, and of course once you have these basics set you can ask for assistance here on the forum for those parts that you may have difficulties with and for a check-up of your intended configuration.
A couple good (shameless plug) basic references (essentially what I would have wanted to find when I stated):
viewtopic.php?t=215004
viewtopic.php?t=215018
The instrument, under the right hands, can do marvels, but to master it years of study and practice are needed.
But all you want to do is learning some basics in order to play "Happy birthday to you" or "White Christmas" at the next suitable occasion.
It Is definitely doable and you did the right thing buying the hex on the cheap to play with.
The (big) difference between a "SoHo" device (like the hex) and a "professional" device is that the first comes with a basic (but good/working) default configuration including a set of firewall rules, whilst the latter will come with no (or very minimal) configuration.
So a good idea is to start from a "clean" (reset configuration) on the hex, get familiar with Winbox and terminal and do experiments on that base, so that when you will get the CCR you will be able to "replicate" the hex configuration on it.
But unless you need anything more advanced, there are only a handful of things/concepts that you have to understand, and of course once you have these basics set you can ask for assistance here on the forum for those parts that you may have difficulties with and for a check-up of your intended configuration.
A couple good (shameless plug) basic references (essentially what I would have wanted to find when I stated):
viewtopic.php?t=215004
viewtopic.php?t=215018
Statistics: Posted by jaclaz — Thu Mar 27, 2025 12:53 am