Does Mikrotik replace Kerio Control in terms of Internet access?

Question

System administration

If you do not take into account that Kerio Control has an antivirus and IPS, are these products equivalent in terms of capabilities?
Is it possible to switch from Kerio to Mikrotik without much loss in functionality?

Answer 1

I have 5 branches of the organization in different cities.
VPN tunnels, VPN clients and more.
In general, I switched without any problems at all, except for one moment.
They say that I didn’t see it myself, Kerio was able to track which users go where on the network. I don’t know how he tracked https traffic, because I didn’t see it, but on RouterOS I had to make a bunch of Mikrotik + linux + sqiud + log reader. I don’t see the pages, but the visited sites themselves are quite.

Answer 2

Mikrotik is a router, gateway, VPN server, wifi server. There is no antivirus. IPS in understanding of Kerio too is not present. As you set up a brandmauer, it will work. The usual Linux philosophy is to ban everything, then allow only what is needed. As a consequence, "intrusion analysis" is unnecessary. Mikrotik will not automatically check files, block some sites / ports. Because it's a bit counterintuitive. For this, Kerio's proxy is usually used
- this is a combine, into which they stuffed only what is necessary and not necessary)
Mikrotik is a ROUTER with excellent functionality
I think that the maximum approach to Kerio in terms of functionality is pfSense. But I can be wrong