Category: Mikrotik
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Why is Mikrotik Pushing MPLS?
Funny you should ask yourself that, because I’ve been asking myself the same thing ever since I saw that the feature was added. I personally administer a network that includes a chunk of MPLS, but before then, it was just another buzz word. When I say it contains MPLS I mean we actually do MPLS…
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MUM Update 1
Met some of the Latvian’s so far, Normands is a pretty cool cat. He commented on my blog a while back on the 450G BGP testing. Hardware updates: The RB750s will be coming out with a wireless version. The RB750s will also be coming out with a gigabit version. The RB1000 will be coming out…
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Mikrotik Video Tutorial – Creating an IPSEC LAN to LAN Tunnel
So you have multiple sites that all have internet connections. You want to securely connect the internal subnets together…how would one accomplish this? You would use an IPSEC tunnel. Imagine it as a nice secure pipe that connects one site to the other. This tutorial will show you just how this configuration is accomplished. Use…
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Mikrotik METArouter
You may have seen metarouter in some of the Mikrotik change logs. First off, what is it? Metarouter is a way to have logical routers running on your routerboard. In essence, you create a virtual router on your RB, then you assign some interfaces to it. You then can hand this virtual router off to…
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Mikrotik NAT FTP to same IP as Masquerade
The idea is that you have a single public IP on your Mikrotik. You want to grab anyone on the internet heading to your IP for FTP and redirect them to an internal FTP server. The first thing you want to do is disable the FTP server on the Mikrotik. ip service disable ftp Next,…
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Mikrotik – QOS Per File – Web Server Limiting
Jimmy has released another great little article on his personal experience with Mikrotik. His cactiEZ cd gets a LOT of downloads, so this is his method with dealing with such problems. He marks connections using a L7 regex statement, then wrangles those packets into a queue. You can find the article HERE.
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Mikrotik VPN Client Connections – PPTP
Alright my peoples. This one will show you how to do a simple PPTP setup on your Mikrotik and even how to configure your Windows machine to connect to said PPTP server. This will allow you to securely access your network remotely by creating a secure tunnel over the internet. Click the link below for…