Mikrotik Router Basic Configuration

MikroTik RouterOS is an operating system what is used as a network router and also manage bandwidth.In this time MikroTik used widely at ISP's, local office's, local cyber cafe and also local provider who give connection for home user's.

You can access Mikrotik Router 3 different ways.

1. Via Winbox
2. Via Console (like putty,ssh etc.)
3. Via Web .

I am describe here step by step.

Basic Configuration

After start the Mikrotik OS give the username = admin (By Default), Password= (Blank)

1. IP Configuration at Ethernet cards: (Need 2 Ethernet Card)

ether 1 (Wan)= 192.168.1.1/24 for Internet/DSL Connection

ether2 (Local) = 192.168.0.1/24 for local user’s

Command Line:

[admin@Mikrotik] ip address> add address 192.168.1.1/24 interface Ether1/Wan

[admin@Mikrotik] ip address> add address 192.168.0.1/24 interface Ether2/Local [admin@Mikrotik] ip address> ip address print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic

# ADDRESS NETWORK BROADCAST INTERFACE

0   192.168.1.1/24 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.255 Wan

1         192.168.0.1/28 192.168.0.0 192.168.0.255 Local

[admin@MikroTik] ip address>

2. Default Routes Add: (Default Route will be the ISP’s provides gateway)

[admin@MikroTik] ip route add gateway=192.168.1.1

3 . DNS Setup:

ip dns set primary-dns=192.168.1.2 allow-remote-request=yes

ip dns set secondary-dns=192.168.1.3 allow-remote-request=yes

4.      Testing the connection:

[admin@Mikrotik] ping 192.168.1.1 (Your ISP’s Gateways/DNS or something else)

5.       NAT/Masquerading:

[admin@MikroTik] ip firewall nat add chain=srcnat action=masquerade out-interface=Wan

6. Bandwidth Management:

queue simple add name=”queue1” target-address=192.168.0.6/256 dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 interface=Local queue=default priority=8 limit-at=256000/256000 max-limit=256000/256000

7. Graphs:

tool graphing set store-every=5min

tool graphing interface add interface=all store-on-disk=yes

at your windows browser type

http://serverip/graphs/

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