This post illustrates on how you can configure load balancing of multiple wan links using Mikrotik Routerboard hardware (or RouterOS x86 version). In this example I have used Mikrotik Routerboard CCR 1036 model. 4 ports are connected with Four DSL Routers, and 5th port was connected with User LAN. Don’t forget to rename the interface […]
Introduction This example is improved (different) version of round-robin load balancing example. It adds persistent user sessions, i.e. a particular user would use the same source IP address for all outgoing connections. Consider the following network layout: Quick Start for Impatient Configuration export from the gateway router: / ip address add address=192.168.0.1/24 network=192.168.0.0 broadcast=192.168.0.255 interface=Local […]
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:System/Time Clock and Time zone configuration RouterOS uses data from the tz database, Most of the time zones from this database are included, and have the same names. Because local time on the router is used mostly for timestamping and time-dependant configuration, and not for historical date calculations, time zone information about past years is […]
For example, you are hosting a web server with port number 80 in your private network and you would like to allow anyone on the Internet to access your web server, you can follow this guide to setup the port forwarding on your MikroTik router or RouterOS device. You can change the port number and […]
What is a hotspot server? The hotspot feature provided by MikroTik may not be the one in your mind, it is much more powerful than what most of us expected before we learn about it. Let’s read about the description from MikroTik Wiki. The MikroTik HotSpot Gateway provides authentication for clients before access to public […]
One of the method, probably the most popular method to configure MikroTik routers or RouterOS devices is using WinBox, a Windows software provided by MikroTik officially. Please note that older version of mikrotik like version 5.26 require the older version of mikrotik and the newer version need to use the latest one from http://download.mikrotik.com To […]
