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Category: Mikrotik

  • Bulk Mikrotik Usermanager Import

    The Mikrotik Usermanager is a radius package you can optionally install on a router. This gives you the ability to locally or remotely authenticate users for: Hotspot, PPP, DHCP, Wireless, or RouterOS logins. It has some paypal/authorize.net integration, but the features are so limited I’d personally look at a different solution. It is actually a…

  • Mikrotik RouterBOOT Changelog

    A lot of us often forget that there is boot firmware on a Mikrotik router also. To upgrade, you go to: /system routerboard upgrade To view the changelog you can go here.

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    Mikrotik Changelog 6.37

    What’s new in 6.37 (2016-Sep-23 08:20): — IMPORTANT! WIRELESS PACKAGE CHANGES: There will be only one “wireless” package starting from RouterOS v6.37. — IMPORTANT! DFS CHANGES: DFS configuration in RouterOS has been redesigned, now device looks at specified country settings (/interface wireless info country-info), and applies corresponding DFS mode for each frequency range automatically, making…

  • TheBrothersWISP 30 – Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 and  UTM Rumors,  New FAA Tower Regs, Mimosa Firmware
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    TheBrothersWISP 30 – Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 and UTM Rumors, New FAA Tower Regs, Mimosa Firmware

    This go around we have Greg, Mike, Cox, Tomas, and a little Miller. We go down the rabbit hole like always, but mostly we talk about: Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 XG UBNT hiring PF Sense engineer FAA Tower Regulations 50′-200′ New Mimosa Firmware WISPA Elections Fail2Ban To see the video please visit the link below!!!

  • TheBrothersWISP Unimus – Mikrotik Plus More Backup System
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    TheBrothersWISP Unimus – Mikrotik Plus More Backup System

    Greg, Mike, Tomas, and Tom talk about Unimus, Tomas’ new backup application for Network equipment. It’s dead simple, so you no longer have an excuse NOT to have proper backups for your infrastructure. It’s the “up and running in less than 10 minutes” system! To see the video please visit the link below!!!

  • Mikrotik Firewall Raw Feature Test
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    Mikrotik Firewall Raw Feature Test

    While talking about doing a podcast on DoS protection it was brought to my attention that Mikrotik added a new firewall feature (Raw). Raw is a mechanism to less granularly, but more efficiently drop traffic in the router. Raw is configured similarly to a standard firewall rule, but it will drop traffic BEFORE it has…

  • Mikrotik HTB-Token Bucket Algorithm After 6.35

    Mikrotik HTB-Token Bucket Algorithm After 6.35

    You can find the wiki article here. The HTB system is a little wacky, and recently some previously hard-coded values are accessible for configuration, namely bucket size. It was previously hard coded to .1, but is now configurable from 0-10. Janis created a nifty diagram to help illustrate how everything works: If this sort of…