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I'm confused on why this is needed. I have a couple MikroTik devices and I just use SSH to login to them. I also have automation that runs via SSH to update things on the devices.

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Someone else in this thread mentioned it was used to login with Level 2 access. I.e with Ethernet MAC address?

When you screw up and delete the ip address from a remote router it will come in handy.

When that device is hundreds of miles away, it's double handy.

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