Questions tagged [routeros]

Linux-based operating system known also known as MikroTik RouterOS that runs on x86 and RouterBOARD systems.

Major features:

  • Powerful QoS control
  • P2P traffic filtering
  • High availability with VRRP
  • Bonding of Interfaces
  • Improved interface Smaller and Less resource-hungry
  • Tons of other new features
  • Advanced Quality of Service
  • Stateful firewall, tunnels
  • STP bridging with filtering
  • High speed 802.11a/b/g wireless with WEP/WPA
  • WDS and Virtual AP
  • HotSpot for Plug-and-Play access
  • RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS routing
  • remote WinBox GUI and Web admin
  • telnet/mac-telnet/ssh/console admin
  • real-time configuration and monitoring

For more information, see:

http://download.mikrotik.com/what_is_routeros.pdf

http://www.mikrotik.com

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MikroTik beep on RDP

I am a newbie in MikroTik RouterOS. How can I add a rule or script to beep when some one tries to connect to a special port on one of interfaces? For example I need to know if someone is trying to ftp to my server from outside world.
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How do I configure routing for an IPSEC tunnel between Openswan and RouterOS

I am trying to create a site-to-site VPN between a Linux router that runs openswan and shorewall (host A, serving subnet 10.10.0.0/16) and a MikroTek RouterBoard running RouterOS 6.3 (host B, serving 192.168.88.0/24). The IPSEC tunnel itself seems…
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On RouterOS, how will transparent proxying (with DNAT) affect reporting of netflow?

I have a box running Mikrotik RouterOS, which is set up to do transparent web proxying, as described here. In short, this means that I have a firewall rule for destination NAT causing any port 80 traffic to get redirected to port 8080 on the router,…
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On Mikrotik RouterOS, is it possible to get Netflow information from a bridged connection?

I have a RouterOS box set up to bridge two ethernet connections. I have use-ip-firewall=yes in the bridge configuration, so that the ports go through the firewall. I've enabled netflow reporting via ip/traffic-flow, but the only packets I see…
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Why is port forwarding in Mikrotik RouterOS stuck at SYN_RECV?

I'd like to set up port forwarding of tcp port 8000 -> 192.168.1.16:4200 on my Mikrotik RouterOS. I've done the following: /ip firewall nat add dstnat chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.1.16 to-ports=4200 protocol=tcp…
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How to allow responding to broadcast pings on Mikrotik RouterOS?

By default, most systems don't respond to broadcast ping requests. However, there exist ways to explicitly allow responding to broadcast ICMP requests on multiple systems, such as Linux. How can I enable responding to broadcast ping requests on…
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MikroTik Capsman is trying to push network channel configurations that are not allowed by access points

According to information from allowed-channels command on my Access Point the allowed channels are the following: 5180/20-Ceee/ac, 5260/20-Ceee/ac/DP, 5745/20-Ceee/ac, 5750/20-Ceee/ac, 5755/20-Ceee/ac, 5760/20-Ceee/ac, 5765/20-Ceee/ac Despite the…
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Simple router with two ethernet interface no static route needed?

Normaly, for two subnets connected with one router, i always used to create two routes per example: subnet 1: 192.168.1.0/24 subnet 2: 192.168.2.0/24 router interface 1: 192.168.1.99 router interface 2: 192.168.2.99 route 1: dst-adress…
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RouterOS push static route for IPSec IKEv2 VPN

Can't find a solution how actually I can push a static routes to VPN clients, when they connect via VPN. Configuration from here RouterOS, IPSec, IKEv2. Clients mainly macOS users via standard soft. Any ideas with examples are appreciate.
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Make a Mikrotik Router behave as a separate router on each port

We use Mikrotik routers for many points in our system, but we have an odd need for one location. We would like to use one router (example: RB960PGS-PB), where the main Internet connection comes in on port 1, and have ports 2-5 each act as a separate…
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RouterOS sending malformed packets

I have a Routerboard 951G-2HnD which runs latest stable: RouterOS v6.50.5 Firmware v3.41 The board acts as the WiFi AP in WPA2-PSK mode. Recently I have noticed unhealthy amount of traffic sent from AP to clients for no good reason. Example of…
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Order of external DNS servers on Router OS DNS Server

We have DNS server on our Mikrotik (RouterOS 6.36). [admin@xxx] /ip dns> print servers: 10.0.10.3,8.8.8.8 dynamic-servers: allow-remote-requests: yes max-udp-packet-size: 4096 query-server-timeout: 2s …
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How to setup route to gateway on different subnet with MikroTik Routers?

We have the following setup which I need to get working: Location A: Subnet 1: Network: 192.168.1.0 Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1 Subnet 2: Network: 192.168.2.0 Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 192.168.2.1 Location…
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Mikrotik: Firewall dropping packets even though rule seems to match

I set up an L2TP VPN server on my Mikrotik. Connecting to the VPN when I'm behind the router works, but once I'm connecting from the WAN side, it doesn't. I logged my firewall to see if I was dropping it with the default drop rule and it…
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Export vs Backup

Basically self-explanatory. Mikrotik's RouterOS has two distinct functions, one which backs up the router and one which exports the configuration of the router. What exactly is the difference, and when should one use one instead of the other?
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