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  • MikroTik Port Forwarding using Winbox

    MikroTik Port Forwarding or Port Mapping is a NAT application that is used to redirect a request from MikroTik IP address and port number combination to a local IP address and port number. For example, if you have a Web Server or FTP Server in your private/local area and want to access this local server from outside of your local area (from internet/public), you can apply MikroTik port forwarding or port mapping and can easily access your Web Server or FTP Server. Port forwarding configuration in MikroTik Router is not so difficult task. In this article, I will show how to easily configure MikroTik Port Forwarding or Port Mapping using Winbox. Network Diagram In this network, MikroTik Router’s ether1 interface is connected to WAN having IP address 117.58.—.198/29 and ether2 interface is connected to a LAN switch having IP block 192.168.10.0/24. There are three servers (Web Server, FTP Server and SSH Server) in internal network and these are only accessible from LAN. Configuring MikroTik Port Forwarding, these servers can be accessible from out of this internal network (from internet/public) and this article will show how to configure MikroTik Port Forwarding to access these internal servers from internet or public network. [...]

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    MikroTik Firewall Basic Concept |   October 6, 2017

    MikroTik Firewall functions as a network security tool for preventing unauthorized access to networks as well as provides Network Address Translation functionality. So, a network administrator who is using MikroTik Router in his network cannot go a single day without MikroTik Firewall. Actually, the main duty of a MikroTik administrator is to maintain Firewall properly along with Bandwidth management after completing MikroTik Router basic configuration. So, a MikroTik administrator should have enough knowledge on MikroTik Firewall and so this article [...]

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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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    How to Create Free SSL/TLS Certificate with OpenSSL |   July 23, 2021

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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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    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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    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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    MikroTik Hotspot Login Page with Random MAC Detection |   October 5, 2025

    Hotspot businesses such as cafés, restaurants, co-working spaces, schools, and ISPs often rely on MikroTik Hotspot solutions to provide Wi-Fi access. One common challenge is that many modern devices (Android, iOS, Windows, macOS) use randomized (private) MAC addresses, which can cause repeated logins, loss of session persistence, and difficulties with usage tracking. To solve this problem, we have designed a professional Hotspot Login Page Template that not only looks modern and mobile-friendly but also detects randomized MAC addresses and notifies [...]

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