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  • Protect Your Network From Mikrotik Exploits

    Protect Your Network From Mikrotik Exploits

    Attacks on older versions of Mikrotik have stepped up recently. You can easily protect your network from such attacks in a couple of simple steps. 1. Update your Mikrotik to a new version that isn’t affected system package upgrade 2. Disable any unneeded Mikrotik services ip services dis 0,1,2,3,4,7 3. Add firewall rules to protect…

  • Mikrotik – Move WAN To PoE Out Port
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    Mikrotik – Move WAN To PoE Out Port

    On many Mikrotik devices there is a PoE out port on ether 5, but the WAN port defaults to ether 1. Here’s a quick tutorial on moving the WAN over to ether 5 to power up the CPE straight from their home router.

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    Full Internet Routes/Full Internet Feeds For FREE!

    If you are building a BGP lab to test/learn with, look no further, you can now get full feeds for your lab for free! Visit the BGP Lab link at the top of the page, or click HERE. See a demonstration of the system in action below! Mikrotik MUM 2018 – Building A Better BGP…

  • Pre Mikrotik RouterOS v6.38.5 Exploit In The Wild

    Mikrotik released the following information: Hello, It has come to our attention that a rogue botnet is currently scanning random public IP addresses to find open Winbox (8291) and WWW (80) ports, to exploit a vulnerability in the RouterOS www server that was patched more than a year ago (in RouterOS v6.38.5, march 2017). Since…

  • Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM – 24 Port PoE Switch
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    Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM – 24 Port PoE Switch

    It looks like the CRS328 is about to be a thing, and I was looking at where it fits in. Switching Features • Non-blocking Layer 2 switching capacity • 16K host table • IEEE 802.1Q VLAN • Supports up to 4K simultaneous VLANs • Port isolation • Port security • Broadcast storm control • Port…

  • Video Guide to Configure OpenVPN in Mikrotik For Remote Offices

    Video Guide to Configure OpenVPN in Mikrotik For Remote Offices

    Use OpenVPN along with OSPF to have remote offices that dynamically create tunnels to a hub site and share routes dynamically between the two. Create a self-signed certificate in Mikrotik: /certificate add name=ca-template common-name=myCa key-usage=key-cert-sign,crl-sign add name=server-template common-name=server add name=client1-template common-name=client1 add name=client2-template common-name=client2 /certificate sign ca-template ca-crl-host=192.168.88.153 name=myCa sign server-template ca=myCa name=server sign client1-template…

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    My Mobile Home Network Lab

    So my lab allows me to login to a web page and power on/off all of my network gear. I also have a console server to remotely access every piece of gear. I use this lab extensively for building my Lynda and LinkedIn Learning videos. I also use it regularly for all sorts of network…