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MikroTik Site to Site VPN with L2TP/IPsec
VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that provides a secure and encrypted tunnel across a public network. A private network user can send and receive data to any remote private network using this VPN Tunnel as if his/her network device was directly connected to that private network. MikroTik L2TP server is one of the most popular VPN services. It provides a secure and encrypted tunnel across public network for transporting IP traffic using PPP. L2TP/IPsec is more secure than MikroTik PPTP VPN server because it uses IP security protocol suite that authenticates and encrypts the packets of data send over a network. MikroTik L2TP Server can be applied in two methods. Connecting remote workstation/client: In this method, a L2TP client supported operating system such as Windows can communicate with MikroTik L2TP server through L2TP tunnel whenever required and can access remote private network as if it was directly connected to the remote private network. Site to Site L2TP: This method is also known as VPN between routers. In this method, a L2TP client supported router always establishes a L2TP tunnel with MikroTik L2TP Server. So, private networks of these routers can communicate to each other as if they were [...]
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MikroTik L2TP/IPsec VPN Configuration (Connecting Remote Client) | February 26, 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 L2TP server is one of the most popular VPN services. It provides a secure and encrypted tunnel across public network for transporting IP traffic using PPP. L2TP/IPsec is more secure [...]
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How to Create Free SSL/TLS Certificate with OpenSSL | July 23, 2021
SSL/TLS certificate is required to encrypt data sent over internet communication. Without encryption, the sent data can be hacked by the middle man attack. SSL/TLS certificate is usually a pair key, public key and private key, solution where data is encrypted with public key and decrypted with private key. In public communication, public key is required to be signed by a CA (certificate authority) but in private communication, there is no need to be signed by any CA. If we [...]
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MikroTik User Management (RouterOS User) | October 22, 2017
MikroTik User Management plays an important role in MikroTik system administration as well as MikroTik security. Don’t be confused the title User Management with the MikroTik UserManager. UserManager is an optional and totally separate package distributed by MikroTik. UserManager is an implementation of Radius server that is used to maintain not only RouterOS users but also PPPoE, PPTP, Hotspot, Wireless and DHCP users. In my few future articles, I will discuss how to maintain these users with MikroTik UserManager Radius [...]
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NGINX Web Server Installation and Configuration in Ubuntu | September 7, 2024
NGINX is a feature rich and high-performance software which is mainly used for Web Server. NGINX can also be used as a proxy server, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP Cache Server. NGINX is a free and open-source software and can be run on Linux, Windows. macOS and other operating systems. NGINX is a single-thread based application. So, it can handle unlimited client requests using asynchronous technique. NGINX processes highly efficient run loops in a single-thread process called workers. Workers accept [...]
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6 Best VPN Providers to Consider in 2022 | October 19, 2021
There are many VPN providers on the market. It can be difficult to know which one is best for you, but luckily we have compiled a list of six of the best! Get ready for our top picks. What is a VPN? A VPN, or virtual private network, hides and encodes your internet traffic so that you can surf the web more securely. By doing so, it protects your data from hackers and prying eyes. Think of a VPN as [...]
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Managing Disk Partition with the parted Tool in CentOS 7 | March 2, 2019
As a system administrator, sometimes you may require to manage partitions of your CentOS/Red Hat Linux Operating System. Partition management is always a risky task. But there are some useful tools those are so helpful to manage CentOS/Red Hat Linux disk partition easily. In my previous article, I discussed how to manage CentOS/Red Hat 7 HDD partitions with the fdisk utility. The fdisk tool is only eligible to manage MBR partition table. But GPT partition table is now becoming more [...]
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MikroTik HotSpot One to One NAT/Universal HotSpot NAT | September 27, 2020
MikroTik Hotspot is an awesome service that can be customized widely. When MikroTik Hotspot is enabled on an interface, it adds dynamic destination NAT rules which will redirect all HTTP and HTTPS requests from unauthorized users to the Hotspot authentication proxy. So, no user can get internet access in Hotspot network without authentication. MikroTik Hotspot also uses one to one NAT providing an IP address from selected IP Pool and this IP address handles user’s data and limitation. Sometimes we [...]
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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 Unequal Dual WAN Load Balancing with Failover using ECMP | September 15, 2019
MikroTik Router is capable of doing Load Balancing with Failover over multiple gateways. Policy Based Routing, ECMP, PCC and NTH Load Balancing are the popular load balancing methods in MikroTik Router. Among these methods, ECMP is so easy to configure and provides almost 100% load balancing and link redundancy solution. In my previous article, I discussed how to configure Load Balancing and Link Redundancy using ECMP over two equal bandwidth gateways. ECMP method is also capable of doing load balancing [...]
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