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  • GNS3 Installation and Configuration Step by Step in Windows

    GNS3 (Graphical Network Simulator) is one of the most popular network simulator software used by hundreds of thousands of network engineers worldwide to emulate, configure, test and troubleshoot virtual and real networks. GNS3 supports a large number of vendors such as MikroTik, Cisco, Juniper, Windows, Linux and many other vendors. GNS3 can be installed on Windows, Linux and MAC Operating System. In this article, I will show how to download and install GNS3 application in Windows Operating System. I will also show how to configure a basic network in GNS3 that will communicate with the real networks. GNS3 Download for Windows Operating System GNS3 is completely free and open source software. So, it can be downloaded from its official website without any charge. In GNS3 official website, the installation file is found for major three operating platforms (Windows, Linux and MAC). The following steps will show how to download GNS3 installation file (.exe) for Windows Operating System. Go to GNS3 official website (gns3.com) from your favorite web browser. You must Sign Up and Login before any download. So, Sign Up and Login with your personal information. Now click on DOWNLOAD menu item. GNS3 current version (now it is 2.1.9) information [...]

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    MikroTik Router Integration and Configuration on GNS3 |   September 19, 2018

    GNS3 is a network simulator software used by hundreds of thousands of network engineers worldwide to emulate, configure, test and troubleshoot virtual and real networks. GNS3 can talk a large number of network vendors including MikroTik. MikroTik introduces Cloud Hosted Router (a RouterOS version) that is used to run as virtual machine and a virtual machine can easily be integrated with GNS3. So, network administrators who are fond of MikroTik Router can now configure, test and troubleshoot their MikroTik network [...]

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    FreeRADIUS Installation and Basic Configuration on CentOS 7 |   November 28, 2018

    FreeRADIUS is a modular, high performance and highly customizable open source RADIUS server. Anyone can use FreeRADIUS without any charge and can customize his RADIUS server according to his organizational requirements. In my previous article, I discussed how to install and configure user manager RADIUS server developed by MikroTik. The main disadvantage of user manager RADIUS server is ‘it is not customizable and not suitable for medium or large organization’. On the other hand, FreeRADIUS is giving facility to customize [...]

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    MikroTik Load Balancing over Multiple Gateways (2 WAN) |   October 13, 2016

    Load Balancing is a technique used to send network traffic over multiple gateways. If you have multiple ISP connections in your network, you can send your network traffic through those ISP connections and can make a load balancing network. Accidently you may ask me, why will I use multiple ISP connections? What are the benefits to use multiple ISP connections in my network? I will say, ask yourself deeply then you will find the reasons why multiple ISP connections is [...]

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    Ubuntu Server Set Static IP Address with Netplan |   July 1, 2021

    Ubuntu Server is one of the most popular open source sever operating systems. Ubuntu Server can be used in production without any hassle. In my previous article, I discussed how to install Ubuntu Server’s latest version (Ubuntu Server 20.04) with LVM. In this article, we are going to see how to assign static IP address in Ubuntu Server with Netplan network management tool. Netplan Since Ubuntu Server 17.10, Netplan is being used as the default network management tool instead of [...]

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    MikroTik Bandwidth and Resource Monitoring with Graphs |   January 31, 2018

    “Am I getting my committed bandwidth?” is a common question to any network administrator. This question may arise either from your customer or from your owner if you are an employee of any organization. If you feel boring hearing this question and want to establish a system where your customer will be able to inspect his bandwidth usage, MikroTik Graphing is your best friend. MikroTik Graphing can be used to display graphics for traffic which is passed through interfaces and [...]

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    MikroTik VPN Configuration with Site-to-Site PPTP |   February 19, 2018

    VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that provides a secure and encrypted tunnel across a public network and using this VPN tunnel a private network user can send and receive data to any remote private network as if his/her network device was directly connected to that private network. MikroTik PPTP is a popular client-server VPN service that provides a secure and encrypted link across public network. MikroTik PPTP can be applied in two methods. Connecting remote workstation/client: In this [...]

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    MikroTik Dual WAN Load Balancing with Failover using PCC |   May 27, 2018

    Hi geek, going through this article means you are finding Load Balancing as well as Link Redundancy solution for your MikroTik network because you already have multiple WAN connections or you are planning to lease multiple WAN connections. MikroTik has various Load Balancing and Link Redundancy methods such as ECMP, PCC and so on. ECMP method provides an easy configurable load balancing with failover solution but it has some known issues too in a large network. On the hand, PCC [...]

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    How to Prevent Simultaneous User Login in MikroTik Hotspot |   November 10, 2020

    MikroTik Hotspot is a user based internet access system. Most of the user authentication and authorization can be controlled with MikroTik Hotspot. But sometimes some users misuse user based authentication system. Misusing simultaneous login is one of them. Usually we provide one username and password for a user and we expect he/she will use this username and password from only one device at a time. But it is also possible to use same username and password in multiple devices at [...]

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    VMware ESXi 7.0 Installation and Basic Configuration |   December 1, 2020

    VMware vSphere is the pioneer in virtualization world. No other virtualization software is as feature rich as VMware vSphere. More than 500,000 enterprise data center are now using VMware vSphere. It is expected that most of the data center will be turned into virtualization in near future. As VMware vSphere provides more feature than any other virtualization software, it is also expected that demand of VMware vSphere will increase day by day. VMware ESXi is the foundation of VMware vSphere [...]

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