Tag: routing

Janis M. from MikroTik was kind enough to point me to a copy of his presentation from the Russian MUM which I feel is an incredible helpful document and well worth a read by all of the current CCR users out there. I would highly encourage anyone running (or thinking of running) CCR’s on their … Continue reading CloudCoreRouter and RouterOS v6.x (linked post) →

Given v6.0 stable is now upon us I’ve taken some time to collate some of the posts I’ve been familiarising myself with over the last few weeks to understand the major changes that have been implemented in this release and how to best upgrade and make use of these. I’ve tagged some videos and forum posts … Continue reading Study guide: Moving up to RouterOS v6 →

There have been a number of improved netwatch scripts listed on the mikrotik wiki in the past however many of these are hard to understand, broken or both. I had a request from an associate to assist them finding a solution to fall over VPN traffic from one link to another in the event of … Continue reading Improved Netwatch-style script. →

Came across an interesting (yet to be verified) bug today. The info: RouterOS v4.10 running on x86 server Site runs both a hotspot and PPPoE server on the same interface. Users can decide to login via the captive portal (which most do) or for those who understand and wish to use a pppoe connection, they … Continue reading Bug spotting – PPPoE and Hotspot →

Please note this guide assumes some basic knowledge of IPv4 and IPv6 address space. Many of you may know of the impending doom that surrounds the IPv4 network and lack of remaining IP ranges. The question is, how many people are actually doing anything about it? Given the slow take up worldwide I thought it … Continue reading IPv6 and Mikrotik – Using 6to4 →

Having received one of the first RB1100’s to arrive in Australia, I can sum all my thoughts on it in 5 words “better and cheaper than cisco”. However seeing as that’s just my opinion, I’ll elaborate a little further on why exactly the RB1100 rates so high in my mind.

This is my ongoing work at using multiple ADSL services and the Mikrotik PCC rules along with some inbound mangling to allow a single router to load balance traffic across as many non bonded links as required.

I am the user known as omega-00 on the mikrotik forums (see here) and as always am happy to be of assistance in all mikrotik related matters. I can be contacted via the email address listed in my forum profile or alternatively send an email to: admin at this domain dot com (if you can’t … Continue reading Consultant for hire →