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  • Mikrotik Winbox DOS Exploit Protection

    Mikrotik Winbox DOS Exploit Protection

    I was just alerted to a winbox exploit that is affecting all MTK versions(Thanks Mike). Here are a few tips to protect yourself. Add firewall rules to allow access to winbox only from management network. You really should have your router locked down so management can only come from certain subnets anyway. /ip firewall filter…

  • Round Table At The New Orleans MUM

    I just noticed that my good friend Justin Wilson will be doing a presentation about cookies at the MUM. I’m hoping for some oatmeal raisin or peanutbutter. I’m going to be doing a presentation about Multihomed BGP…far less enticing than cookies…I wonder if he is giving away samples!?!?! Since there will be several of us…

  • Mikrotik V5.16 Released

    What’s new in 5.16 (2012-May-09 17:23): *) webfig – fixed problem when new item addition to status page in design skin mode did not work; *) add pw-type option for BGP VPLS; *) fixed mac telnet – sometimes did not work if more than one mac level path to destination; *) user – fixed problem…

  • MUM Australia 2012 October 23-24

    MUM Australia 2012 October 23-24

    I just noticed that the AU MUM is online, though there are no vendors listed yet. Other than Andrew “now I can dance” Cox, who of you are going? Does anyone from that side of the world even read this blog. Since you are in Australia on the opposite side of the world, does that…

  • Mikrotik V5.15 Released

    What’s new in 5.15 (2012-Apr-20 13:11): *) ssh – added option “/ip ssh always-allow-password-login” which will allow password based login for users using public key; *) snmp – moved disk oids shown in console from “/system resoure” to “/store disk”; *) certificate manager – added PKCS#8 support for key import; *) lte – support for…

  • Mikrotik V6 Beta 2 Released

    Thanks to JM for the update. It looks like just a round of bug fixes. Go get your beta on.

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    Mikrotik V6 Beta 1 Released

    What’s new in 6.0beta1 (2012-Apr-13 15:26): *) updated drivers and kernel (to linux-2.6.38.2); *) improved interface management (scales well for up to thousands of interfaces and more); *) improved queue management (/queue simple and /queue tree) – easily handles tens of thousands of queues; *) improved overall router performance when simple queues are used –…