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    Mikrotik L2TP For Remote Windows Client Connections

    L2TP is a secure tunneling protocol that is great for road warriors. It can also be used for MTK to MTK tunnels, but here we are looking at desktop client connections. L2TP tunnels traffic with IPSec encryption on top to keep your data secure. This is more secure than PPTP, though it is slightly more…

  • Icons Are Back

    Icons Are Back

    I seem to recall ancient versions of MTK had cute little icons in winbox…and it seems as of the late versions of 6 they have made a comeback 🙂 This is V6rc5

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    BFD – Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

    BFD is a routing protocol independent fast failure detection method(subsecond detection is possible). It is basically a faster way to signal to your dynamic routing protocols({Cisco – OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, and BGP}{Mikrotik – OSPF and BGP}) that there has been a failure of a neighbor. The Cisco link above has a very good description of…

  • Mikrotik CCR Models And Prices Available
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    Mikrotik CCR Models And Prices Available

    The prices are available and MAN…are they gooooooooood!!!!!!! *Edit* Tom just let me know that they will be shipping end of November 2012…so end of this month. CCR1016-12G 16 core networking CPU, 1.2GHz clock per core 12 Mbytes total on-chip cache State of the art TILE GX architecture 12x Gigabit ports, all directly connected to…

  • Mikrotik AU MUM Presentations On Tiktube

    Be sure to jump over to Tiktube.com and see the AU presentations. Andrew Cox has his up on scripting. Andrew Thrift has his up on securing your mikrotik. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to watch them today!

  • Mikrotik SXT CPE Install Video

    Here’s a cute lil video put out by MTK on installing an SXT as a CPE. I’m really starting to like these marketing videos. Someone needs to hire me to make some of these for them 😉

  • Mikrotik 6.0rc2 Released

    *) added generic fast path support on certain interfaces (all ethernets on RB3xx, RB6xx, RB7xx, RB8xx, RB9xx, RB1000, RB11xx, RB2011); *) added ipv4 fast path, it doubles ipv4 forwarding performance on supported interfaces when no firewall, conntrack, queues. *) added traffic generator fast path; *) addedbridge fast path; More info on fast path: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path Looks…