How about a "lite" firmware version for depricated devices

I was surprised when I saw in forum posts that there are issues with the Mikrotik hAP ac lite and the new firmware.  Our mesh has many of these devices (30?) that are frequently the only device in a ham's QTH.  They are in our go-boxes and interfacing with our services.  Beyond this, if 64MB of memory is now, or may soon be, marginal, take a look at the supported devices list and how that list might be truncated.  I get it that the hAP has a lot of features and two radios that can be used any one of 3 ways, but my 5G Ubiquiti PowerBeams and LiteBeams also have 2 radios (2G Management radio) and 64MB.   We'll likely remain on 2024 FW if the list of devices with issues increases.  I do, however, appreciate the new features and improvements.  Still, if it ain't broke, I won't fix it.  ;-)   73, Lee

The hap is the busiest device in the AREDN corral.   If you run a lot of tunnels it can handle it, but the killer is the wireless daemon; it's a memory hog.  If you don't use the built-in radios you should be fine. 

If you need a wireless access point on your AREDN network, plug any old router into a LAN port on the hAP, have it get a DHCP address from the hAP so it's on the network.  Also turn off the router's DHCP server so it passes DHCP requests to the hAP to service.  (and turn the hAP's internal radios off).

Orv W6BI