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The Dude 7.18.2
Application by MikroTik which can dramatically improve the way you manage your network enviroment. Learn what's new on this latest version. Click here if the download does not begin automatically.
It will automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout a map of your networks, monitor services of your devices and alert you in case some service has problems.
Alternatively you can download the latest beta version of this software. Read more.
Features
- The Dude is free of charge
- Auto network discovery and layout
- Discovers any type or brand of device
- Device, Link monitoring, and notifications
- Includes SVG icons for devices, and supports custom icons and backgrounds
- Easy installation and usage
- Allows you to draw your own maps and add custom devices
- Supports SNMP, ICMP, DNS and TCP monitoring for devices that support it
- Individual Link usage monitoring and graphs
- Direct access to remote control tools for device management
- Supports remote Dude server and local client
- Runs in Linux Wine enviroment, MacOS Darwine, and Windows
- Best price/value ratio compared to other products (free of charge)
What's New
- Bridge - improved stability in case of configuration error (introduced in v7.15);
- Bridge - show warning instead of causing error when using multicast mac as admin-mac (introduced in v7.17);
- Cloud - fixed issues when bth is toggled fast between enable/disable;
- Cloud - improved "Bth files" web page design;
- Console - fixed issue with files when using scripts (introduced in v7.18);
- Console - improved file add/remove process stability;
- Dhcpv6-relay - clear saved routes on dhcp release;
- Dhcpv6-relay - show client address;
- Disk - add "Sector-size" property in print detail;
- Disk - improved stability when formatting crypted partitions;
- L3hw - remove vlan tag before vxlan encapsulation (fixes pvid behavior for bridged vxlan);
- Lte - fixed modem recovery after firmware upgrade for r11e-lte modem;
- Lte - fixed router advertisement processing issue for at modems when an apn with "Ip-type=ipv6" was configured;
- Ovpn - disable hardware accelerator for gcm on mmips cpus (introduced in v7.18);
- Poe-out - fixed health showing 0v voltage when using poe-in for rb960;
- Poe-out - upgraded firmware for 802.3at/bt pse controlled boards (the update will cause brief power interruption to poe-out interfaces);
- Route - show bgp session name instead of cache-id;
- Switch - improved stability when enabling igmp snooping with vxlan (introduced in v7.18);
- System - improved internal "Flash/" prefix handling for different file path related settings;
- Winbox - fixed missing smb client on non-rose devices;
Alternatively you can download the latest beta version of this software. Read more.