How to upgrade a Mikrotik routerOS license key.
The Mikrotik routerOS comes in various license levels; ranging from level 3 to level 6. The capabilities of a device running level … Read more
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How to provision a Mikrotik router as a dhcp relay agent.
If you are a Mikrotik user, chances are you have seen the DHCP relay feature severally but do not know what it … Read more
Mikrotik wireless: Which channel width is best? 20MHz or 40MHz?
Because it is possible to set up a wireless link without knowing much about the various advance parameters that one should enable, … Read more
How to remove Mikrotik router ports from slave mode.
Part of the things Mikrotik has done to aid the deployment of their technology is the infusion of switching functions into routers. … Read more
How to permit only company-allowed websites and block all other websites using Mikrotik routers
As a network administrator, one of the things that make you a master of your job is your ability to take full … Read more
Mikrotik Layer 7 protocols: How to block torrent on Mikrotik routers using firewall filter rules and layer7 protocols
If you live in a first-world country where internet bandwidth is not a problem, then this post is obviously not for you. … Read more
Mikrotik Address-list: How to create manual and dynamic address-lists on a Mikrotik router
The Mirotik address-list allows for the grouping of two or more users, using the source or destination address as the factor. This … Read more
How to solve Mikrotik IPsec VPN connection problem.
Ipsec is a security feature that allows for the implementation of a secured end-to-end tunnel over the public internet as well as … Read more
How Mikrotik fasttrack feature works in routerOS and why you should use it.
Mikrotik fasttrack is a feature in routerOS that most users have heard of but only a few understand and are willing to … Read more
Email notification: how to configure email notifications on a Mikrotik router using netwatch
Yesterday, I made a post on how to achieve automatic failover when using a Mikrotik router with two ISP connections. You can … Read more
Video: How to stop bruteforce attacks on Mikrotik routers by changing service port numbers.
I have earlier made a post on this and, as always, I have decided to share a video on it as a … Read more
BGP Video: Using BGP AS-Path prepend to load-balance across two ISP links on Mikrotik
I have earlier made a written post on this topic. You can find it here. Based on the feedback I have been … Read more
Dual ISP bgp on Mikrotik with load-balancing and automatic failover.
The border gateway protocol is the routing protocol of the internet. It allows organizations with blocks of public IPs, known as prefixes, … Read more
How to stop distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks via SSH on Mikrotik routers
If you are using Mikrotik routers on your network with live IPs, you may have come across log messages that notify you … Read more
IPv6to4 tunneling: How to configure Generic Routing Encapsulation 6 (GRE6) for IPv6to4 tunneling on Mikrotik
In this post, I will be sharing with us on how to configure a generic routing encapsulation (GRE6) tunnel. If you find … Read more