First of all, I am thankful I have found this device and community through my College Professor and realized how to manipulate networks using RouterOS. Although I have just started out. I was excited to know that there is a new Mikrotik Hex Refresh(E50UG) with a modern CPU which is a dual core arm64. But to my shock when I just received my device. It is not running 64bit natively unlike its more expensive counterparts. As I have retried multiple times to upgrade the system only to realize I wasted plenty of hours trying to reboot the system and wondering why it won't upgrade is due to the fact that Hex Refresh despite having an arm64 which prompted me to use just the 32bit version for both the upgrade and to the container npk.
I wanted to test it out running its own local DNS Server using Pi-Hole. I tried to configure it for the whole day trying to make it work but then I stumbled upon this forum post:
viewtopic.php?t=212694 which made me realize how futile my attempts were.
I really wanted to purchase a Chateau PRO ax just so I can run containers inside the device itself. Knowing I can't afford it even after I graduate. Can I get a confirmation if my Mikrotik Hex Refresh device will eventually get native RouterOS arm64 support or at least make it so that containers can run natively on arm64 inside Hex Refresh?
Re: I bought my first Mikrotik Device.
Problem is similar with AX Lite. 64bit processor, 32-bit OS.
Main reason they gave is that the device does not have enough memory to justify use of 64-bit. Using 64-bit means larger memory usage of OS itself (64-bit instead of 32-bit pointers) which is then wasted on that device.
As far as running ROS goes, it shouldn't matter.
Native arm64: not likely but who knows.
Container support: they will fix that part for sure. There are 2 responses from support in that thread confirming so.
Main reason they gave is that the device does not have enough memory to justify use of 64-bit. Using 64-bit means larger memory usage of OS itself (64-bit instead of 32-bit pointers) which is then wasted on that device.
As far as running ROS goes, it shouldn't matter.
Native arm64: not likely but who knows.
Container support: they will fix that part for sure. There are 2 responses from support in that thread confirming so.
Re: I bought my first Mikrotik Device.
For devices with EN7562CT CPU, only arm32v5 container images are supported.
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/R ... /Container
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/R ... /Container
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