Mikrotik Load Balancing over Multiple Gateways

The typical situation where you got one router and want to connect to two ISPs. Of course, you want to do load balancing! There are several ways how to do it. Depending on the particular situation, you may find one best suited for you.

Policy Routing based on Client IP Address

If you have a number of hosts, you may group them by IP addresses. Then, depending on the source IP address, send the traffic out through Gateway #1 or #2. This is not really the best approach, giving you perfect load balancing, but it's easy to implement, and gives you some control too.

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Mikrotik Winbox Tutorial

Winbox is a small utility that allows administration of Mikrotik RouterOS using a fast and simple GUI. It is a native Win32 binary, but can be run on Linux and Mac OSX using Wine.

All Winbox interface functions are as close as possible to Console functions, that is why there are no Winbox sections in the manual.

Some of advanced and system critical configurations are not possible from winbox, like MAC address change on an interface.

Winbox loader can be downloaded directly from the router.

Open your browser and enter router's IP address, RouterOS welcome page will be displayed. Click on the link to download winbox.exe 

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Mikrotik Making a Simple Wireless AP

This article will show a very quick overview for beginners on setting up a Wireless Access Point in RouterOS Winbox graphical configuration tool.

Requirements:

* a router running RouterOS loaded with supported miniPCI wireless cards

* a connection to the router via the Winbox utility

Instructions:

Start by opening the Wireless Interface window in Winbox. You will see some wireless cards listed here, they might be disabled - to turn them on, click on the blue Enable button. Make sure that the interface is configured and the antennas are connected before you enable an interface.

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Mikrotik Bandwith control on ADSL link

I used the MikroTok / RouterOS as my gateway to the Internet. It servers as a PPPoE-client (as my ISP uses PPPoE over ASDL), a router and AP. It does the job perfectly, but with a range of different clients connected, some more "important" that other, and a relatively slow internet-connection, I want to shape and prioritize the the traffic going to and from the internet.

Since the ADSL modem has a small buffer and a tendency to slow everything down when it's full, the MikroTik must never send more than about 95% of the up- and download-speed of my line. After some bandwidth-test I figured out I had a real speed of 5660/563. Using that, I started with the challenge of limiting the data-traffic.

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Mikrotik Certification

MikroTik training seminars are for network engineers, integrators and managers, who would like to learn about routing and managing wired and wireless networks using MikroTik RouterOS. The training is organized and provided by MikroTik and its Training Partners at various locations around the World.

There are following types of approved training programs and certificates:
MTCNA - MikroTik Certified Network Associate
MTCRE - MikroTik Certified Routing Engineer
MTCWE - MikroTik Certified Wireless Engineer
MTCTCE - MikroTik Certified Traffic Control Engineer
MTCUME - MikroTik Certified User Management Engineer
MTCINE - MikroTik Certified Inter-networking Engineer

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Mikrotik DHCP Server (English E-Book)

The DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is needed for easy distribution of IP addresses in a network. The MikroTik RouterOS implementation includes both server and client parts and is compliant with RFC 2131.

The router supports an individual server for each Ethernet-like interface. The MikroTik RouterOS DHCP server supports the basic functions of giving each requesting client an IP address/netmask lease, default gateway, domain name, DNS-server(s) and WINS-server(s) (for Windows clients) information (set up in the DHCP networks submenu)

In order DHCP server to work, you must set up also IP pools (do not include the DHCP server's own IP address into the pool range) and DHCP networks.

It is also possible to hand out leases for DHCP clients using the RADIUS server, here are listed the parameters for used in RADIUS server.

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Mikrotik Hotspot Setup

The MikroTik HotSpot Gateway provides authentication for clients before access to public networks .

HotSpot Gateway Setup:
- different authentication methods of clients using local client database on the router, or remote RADIUS server;
- users accounting in local database on the router, or on remote RADIUS server;
-walled-garden system, access to some web pages without authorization;
-login page modification, where you can put information about the company;
-automatic and transparent change any IP address of a client to a valid addres.
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HotSpot Profile
Hotspot server profiles. There may be various different HotSpot systems, defined as HotSpot Server Profiles, on the same gateway machine. One or more interfaces can be grouped into one server profile. There are very few settings for the servers on particular interfaces - most of the configuration is set in the server profiles. For example, it is possible to make completely different set of servlet pages for each server profile, and define different RADIUS servers for authentication.
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HotSpot User
This is tutorial, where client's user/password information is actually added, additional configuration options for HotSpot users are configured here as well.
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HotSpot Walled Garden
This is tutorial, where client's user/password information is actually added, additional configuration options for HotSpot users are configured here as well.
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Mikrotik Customizing Hotspot

You can create a completely different set of servlet pages for each HotSpot server you have, specifying the directory it will be stored in html-directory property of a HotSpot server profile /ip hotspot profile. The default servlet pages are copied in the directory of your choice right after you create the profile. This directory can be accessed by connecting to the router with an FTP client. You can modify the pages as you like using the information from this section of the manual. Note that it is suggested to edit the files manually, as automated HTML editing tools may corrupt the pages by removing variables or other vital parts.

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Mikrotik Hotspot Introduction

HotSpot is a way to authorize users to access some network resources, but does not provide traffic encryption. To log in, users may use almost any web browser (either HTTP or HTTPS protocol), so they are not required to install additional software. The gateway is accounting the uptime and amount of traffic each client have used, and also can send this information to a RADIUS server. The HotSpot system may limit each particular user's bitrate, total amount of traffic, uptime and some other parameters mentioned further in this document.

The HotSpot system is targeted to provide authentication within a local network (for the local network users to access the Internet), but may as well be used to authorize access from outer networks to access local resources (like an authentication gateway for the outside world to access your network). It is possible to allow users to access some web pages without authentication using Walled Garden feature.

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Mikrotik Issues (No. 21 - 28)

LAST ISSUE

Issue No. 28, October 19, 2010

• low cost CPE devices
• a new RouterBOARD product
• MikroTik event updates
• new Nv2 features
• CPU load monitoring tool

ARCHIVES

Issue No. 27, August 10, 2010

• RouterBOARD 711
• Training classes in USA before MUM
• MUM in Brazil, Colombia and USA
• Nv2 TDMA protocol
• Multicore improvements

Issue No. 26, July 09, 2010

• The Dude 4
• MUM USA
• MikroTik used in Oil Spill cleanup
• New secure tunnel - SSTP
• Mulicore support extended

Issue No. 25, April 29, 2010

• RB411AR-M
• R52n-M
• RB1100 availability
• New Dude and RouterOS features
• MUM update

Special Issue, March 15, 2010

• MUM news
• Video news
• New products
• New RouterOS
• New SwOS

Issue No. 22, November 30, 2009

• new product RB750G
• new product RB800
• MUM information
• Spectrum tool
• Tips and tricks
• BFD support

Issue No. 21

• Special RouterOS v4 release edition

Mikrotik FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

This e-book contain basic questions & answers as follows:
* 1 What is MikroTik RouterOS™?
* 2 Installation
* 3 Logging on and Passwords
* 4 Licensing Issues
* 5 Upgrading
* 6 Downgrading
* 7 TCP/IP Related Questions
* 8 Bandwidth Management Related Questions
* 9 Wireless Questions
* 10 BGP Questions

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