RouterOS supports many features and modes of operation in which I will mention some of them which are:

• dedicated router
• Bridge with filters in layer 2
• Layer 7 firewall with multiple filters
• Rate control, bandwidth guarantee, burst, hierarchy, and queuing disciplines
• Wireless Access Point 802.11 Mode and Proprietary Wireless Client
• WDS, NSTREME, NSTREME Dual
• PPPoE, PPtP, IPSec, L2TP, etc.
• Edge router
• Dial-in and dial-out server
• Access point and user manager
• WEB Proxy (page and file caching)
• Binding characteristics, VRRP, etc.
• Virtualization with Xen and MetaRouter
• Advanced scripting language
• Routing with OSPF, MPLS, BGP, etc.
• Tools: watchdog, bandwidth test, torch