CHR: all about licensing

[@Supermunch2000]

I've been using Mikrotik for the past 12 years and loving it but only now has it finally dawned on me how useful VM installs of RouterOS can be. Thanks Normunds!

[@jebw]

This is a very good clear presentation of CHR licensing. Thankyou, Normis.

[@The_John_Galt]

Please never do subscription licensing for your products! It separates you from everyone

[@video-bv3sj]

This is the most underrated comment here. All the industry is pushing subscriptions, you are our favorite because the lack of subscriptions. Please don’t change!

[@mikrotik]

We don’t and have no plan to

[@drumaddict89]

@@mikrotik a million thanks toward MT for that!

[@m-electronics5977]

I am not into this licensing world now: what is the difference between the license model that is actually used and a subscription license model?😅😅

[@DiscipleDown]

​​​​@@m-electronics5977 subscription would imply a non-perpetual license. The current model entitles you to lifetime updates (unless mikrotik ever decides to discontinue CHR). A subscription model would introduce a yearly fee to maintain access to updates and support like Cisco & Juniper do, or worse yet, turn the device into a paperweight if payment lapses like Cisco Meraki and other cloud managed solutions. Mikrotik is extremely generous with CHR licensing. Offering a free-trial to test in your environment, and allowing full functionality less updates should you lose compliance (not pay for the license). It's an honor-based system that can be abused to some extent. But, Mikrotik's leniency there makes for a better user experience.

[@drumaddict89]

license management done DAMN RIGHT!!!

[@sergiobeltrao]

The more I learn about MikroTik, the more I love it.

[@JonasHeinz]

You Guys forgot to Blur the Price at 5:55. Can i now have a License for that Price cause i told you 🥺?

[@altmindo]

word of caution - never press the "Generate new ID" - you wont be able to register the device with new id in your mikrotik account(even with a paid license) and you would need to do a full CHR reinstall.

[@sberry25]

Thanks for the info! Is there a route to license CHR where access to the Mikrotik license server is not possible? Or in this case is it best to just use the x86 iso install with 'traditional' licensing?

[@mikrotik]

Better would be to connect the VM to insternet, license it, then disconnect it. Then you can move the VM to other place. ISO has other drawbacks, like different drivers and less RAM support.

[@OlindoPindaro]

I can by an accesspoint mikrotik on ebay and you use its license for an installacion on my pc?

[@m-electronics5977]

Good video!😊 Very helpful!

[@Andrew_Thrift]

Great pacing, very easy to digest the information. Thanks Normunds !

[@mikrotik]

You are welcome!

[@SiBex_ovh]

IP Cloud, means MikroTik DDNS is limited in this version !. 1:29 "Speed is only a limitation"

[@mikrotik]

No. How is cloud dns related to CHR?

[@SiBex_ovh]

@@mikrotik Yes, because: ip cloud set ddns-enabled=yes failure: Cloud services not supported on CHR free licence

[@mikrotik]

Of course, but that is not limited by license. WiFi and LTE interfaces are naturally also not supported. But also, not due to license limitation.

[@SiBex_ovh]

@@mikrotik Ohh, I was wrong thinking that license enable IP Cloud - this feature is just unsupported in CHR... Thanks for clarification.

[@tgiannakarios]

Normunds if i have a P1 Perpetual and i want to upgrade to P10 Perpetual, before i upgrade i must transfer my P1 to another system ID or else i will loose it??

[@mikkio5371]

Beautiful for the explanation. Can this be carried out on vmware .

[@AliNetWorker]

Thanks for allow using chr even after trial expiration

[@wojciechkonowrocki37]

After the 60 days period, would I only stop getting updates, or will the upload speed on the interfaces be limited to 1mbit also?

[@mikrotik]

Only updates are no longer allowed

[@sesalamedas1104]

when i insert it?

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

So all I need to do is add 20,000 interfaces?

[@mikrotik]

Hm. But why?

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

@@mikrotik To get my 20gbps throughput

[@mikkio5371]

​@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh😂😂😂 u are funny.

[@gerooq]

good luck adding....

[@hectorchimal7157]

Thank you!

[@santiagosaldarriaga1418]

ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE

[@karimbabni9272]

Febens Lordeus Thank you!

[@MrCrusayder]

У меня только два вопроса. Первый Как такое может быть? Я только неделю назад себе на CHR поднял VPN сервис, а сейчас дополнительно установил на сервер ещё один CHR прокладкой. И тут это видео в рекомендациях!..O_o Второе Что это за интересное устройство лежит на столе у ведущего?

[@mikrotik]

On the table there is a MikroTik "LtAP" router.

[@boumarc]

talking about licensing why don't you respect the spirit of the GNU General Public License and share the entire source code of RouterOS which is mostly based on free open-source software such as Linux ?

[@mikrotik]

We do! Have you tried asking or looking for it?

[@boumarc]

​@@mikrotik yes I did try, and after several repeated requests and quite a bit of time all I got were a set of useless patches. If you respected the spirit of the GPL, which is about software freedom, I would be able to download corresponding source code for every RouterOS release, and be able to modify and rebuild usable binaries out of it which would be useful in many cases. For example, I recently encountered a pppoe incompatibility, and asked support for a fix, but they refused. The problem would be trivial to fix if proper source code would be available.