Category: integration

While there are existing ways (SNMP/SMS) to run scripts on RouterOS via external means, I’ve been meaning to show off a system I built based around Telegram Messenger – as it’s a relatively common one, and has a flexible API for interfacing with. I began this with the older MikroTik 4096 character variable limit in … Continue reading Making your router talk – MikroTik and Telegram Bot Scripting →

TD of Pebkac.io – At the time of writing, Mikrotik’s current CHR build is 6.35rc49.

While purported to work in a Hyper-V VM, there are no instructions I could find at the time to get one up and running in Microsoft Azure (with ARM).

Knowing that it should be theoretically possible, given Azure utilises a hypervisor with the same origins as Hyper-V, I went down the rabbit hole.

MikroTik supports exporting NetFlow traffic data via /ip traffic-flow, which can be read using free or paid software. This guide shows you how to setup ntop (a free option) on a fresh CentOS 6 (or RedHat) install and assumes you have setup a CentOS 6 server that has a connection to the internet.

This is a bit of a different post based on some configuration I did just recently to enable the bridging of a Virtual Switch between 2 ESX hosts. There is an VMWare option for this called a “VMware vSphere Distributed Switch” however this requires one of the higher end licencing packages so isn’t available on … Continue reading Bridging ESX Virtual Switch Networks using MikroTik and EoIP/Vlan/VPLS →