Now it is time to add some protection for clients on our LAN. We will start with a basic set of rules. This rule allows established and related connections to bypass the firewall and significantly reduce CPU usage.
For more detailed examples on how to build firewalls will be discussed in the firewall section, or check directly Building Your First Firewall article. Sometimes you may want to block certain websites, for example, deny access to entertainment sites for employees, deny access to porn, and so on.
This can be achieved by redirecting HTTP traffic to a proxy server and use an access-list to allow or deny certain websites. We will use RouterOS built-in proxy server running on port RouterOS has built-in various troubleshooting tools, like ping, traceroute, torch, packet sniffer, bandwidth test, etc.
We already used the ping tool in this article to verify internet connectivity. The problem with the ping tool is that it says only that destination is unreachable , but no more detailed information is available. Let's overview the basic mistakes. You cannot reach www. If you are not sure how exactly configure your gateway device, please reach MikroTik's official consultants for configuration support.
Pages Blog. Page tree. Browse pages. A t tachments 22 Page History. Pages RouterOS Getting started. Jira links. Or from WinBox Fig. When you click on the button additional configuration parameters will appear and the description of the button will change to Simple mode ; Choose parameters as shown in the screenshot, except for the country settings and SSID.
You may want to also choose a different frequency and antenna gain; Next, click on the HT tab and make sure both chains are selected; Click on the OK button to apply settings. At this point, your routerboard is running Commotion in memory. To permanently install Commotion to the device's NAND flash similar to a computer hard drive , the files must be loaded from the web server running on your computer. In the serial console, check if your Commotion router received an IP address from the dnsmasq instance on your computer.
Run the command:. You can proceed to the next installation step, wget2nand. If your router doesn't receive an IP, set an IP address for the Ethernet interface on the node statically. Run this command:. After this, you can load the image files from the computer to the note. This command assumes that your computer's IP address is If successful, your serial console should display information indicating that the device is being flashed, and eventually it will reboot.
Once the device is rebooting, use the commands below on your computer to turn off dnsmasq and lighttpd:. When the router has completely rebooted, it will provide your computer with a DHCP lease. Next, run the Commotion setup wizard and configure the settings for your network. If you want to read more about this process, see the document Configure Commotion. Introduction This document contains a step-by-step process for installing the Commotion software on MikroTik routers.
Time required: 1 hour or more. Let's have a look on simple network with 3 routers the same method works on networks with infinite numbers of routers ,. RouterOS version 6 has new auto upgrade option.
RouterOS checks amazon servers for information if new version is available and upgrades after upgrade command is executed. You can automate the upgrade process by running a script in the scheduler:. For complicated networks, when routers are connected sequentially, the simplest example is 1router-2router-3router connection.
You might get an issue, 2router will go to reboot before packages are uploaded to the 3router. The solution is Dude groups, the feature allows to group routers and upgrade all of them by one click! When upgrading from older versions, there could be issues with your license key. Possible scenarios:. Views Read View source View history.
Main Page Recent changes. When installing RouterOS on a drive, the drive is going to be formatted, make sure you have saved all information from that drive. Used to enable PXE booting on your network, should be enabled and configured to have an IP address of your network in order for Netinstall to function properly. After selecting the router or drive and selecting the RouterOS packages below, use this to start or stop the installation.
The Software-ID that belongs to the router. Use this ID to purchase a key for your device if required. Key use previous key browse get key ; Default: use previous key. Specify the licence key for your RouterOS device, use the previous key if your device already has a licence key , apply the purchased key if your device does not have a license by selecting Browse or retrieve a key from your mikrotik.
Launches the Flashfig utility, which can be used to apply a custom configuration on new devices easy and fast. If set, then Netinstall will apply the specified baudrate for serial console after installing RouterOS.
Applies default configuration on the device.
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