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Category: Mikrotik

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    Mikrotik ROS V6rc1 Released

    *RouterOS v6 release candidate 1 has been released* v6 has many new features, among them: – Doubles performance for Simple Queues – New kernel and drivers – Increases multicore system performance 25% or more – Increases single core performance 10% or more – High speed configuration for filters, scripting and other features What’s new in…

  • MUM 2012 NOLA

    MUM is next week and I hope I see you all there. I’ll be running around in my new shirts, so be sure to get one. This year I’m selling them, though I’m just trying to break even, so they won’t be breaking the bank. Oh, BTW, they will have a live demo of the…

  • Mikrotik Newsletter 41

    Mikrotik Newsletter 41

    THIS…is a news letter. This one is jam packed with delicious cookies…or at least it has some new product. RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN 600MHz CPU two 4dbi antennas Dual chain 2.4 B/G/N wireless 128MB RAM 5 copper gig 5 fastethernet 1 SFP port (which I believe has DDMI?) RJ45 serial port which appears to be on the back…

  • Mikrotik ROS V5.20 Released

    What’s new in 5.20 (2012-Aug-15 13:04): *) manual upgrade to NEW beta poe controller firmware v2.0 for RB750UP and OmniTIK UPA; more info at http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PoE-Out *) fix RB951-2n wireless issues; *) ups – fixed resource leak; Looks like a lot of work on the PoE and then a few bug fixes…hmmmm…perhaps a V6 release soon?…

  • Interview with Mikrotik CTO Arnis Riekstins

    If your Latvian is as rusty as mine, then be sure to hit the CC closed captioning button at the bottom. They show you inside their fab shop, which is pretty cool. I had assumed that they just did design and farmed the rest out to China, but this isn’t exactly the case. It seems…

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    Mikrotik Border Router Firewall Script

    Here’s an older version of my firewall script that I’m making public. This is compiled from some wiki/forum/personal experience. It blocks spoofed traffic inbound, has some portknock rules included, SMTP spam blocking, some ICMP rate-limiting, blocks some port scans and DOS attacks. In the below script replace X.X.X.X, Y.Y.Y.Y, and Z.Z.Z.Z with your own values.…

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    Tilera / Mikrotik Press Release

    Thanks to Andrew, this is old news…how he finds all this stuff I’ll never know 😉 EDIT, thanks for the proper link Normands! It appears as if there is an official press release from Tilera talking about how the Mikrotik CCR is using their 36 core chips. They confirm a couple of things: Mikrotik is…