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  • How to Recover MikroTik User Password

    MikroTik Wiki and Forum say that there is no way to recover MikroTik user password without losing MikroTik configuration. But if you have an unencrypted configuration file backup taken before, you will be able to recover your user password using MikroTik password recovery tools. How to Backup and Restore MikroTik configuration file manually was discussed in my previous article. I also discussed how to backup MikroTik configuration file automatically via Mail in another article and in this article I will show how to recover forgotten user password using MikroTik configuration file backup. Recover MikroTik User Password using Configuration File Backup If you have a practice to store MikroTik configuration file backup regularly, you will be able to recover your MikroTik user password if you forget unfortunately. There are two methods to recover MikroTik user password from unencrypted configuration file backup. Recover MikroTik password using online password recovery tool Recover MikroTik password using Linux password recovery tool Recover MikroTik Password using Online Password Recovery Tool If you have an unencrypted backup file, you can easily recover your user password using MikroTik Password Recovery Online Tool. The following steps will show how to recover MikroTik user password using online password recovery tool. [...]

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    MikroTik Backup and Restore Configuration using Winbox |   July 31, 2018

    Backup and Restore feature in MikroTik Router helps to recover router configuration when running router fails to operation due to hardware failure. If you have a backup copy of your failed router and purchase a new MikroTik Router and then upload and restore that backup file, you will get your running network without any hassle. MikroTik Backup file is also useful when you unfortunately forget your admin privilege user password. You can easily recover your forgotten password with backup file [...]

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    MikroTik User Manager Installation and Basic Configuration |   December 15, 2019

    MikroTik User Manager is a RADIUS application developed by MikroTik team and can be used without charge. User Manager is used for authentication, authorization and accounting of MikroTik RouterOS, PPPoE, Hotspot, DHCP and Wireless users. Although User Manager Package is developed by MikroTik it will not be found in RouterOS by default. So, we have to install User Manager Package manually if we wish to use this RADIUS application. User Manager can be installed on MikroTik RouterBOARD, MikroTik CHR or [...]

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    Single IP NAT Strategy in MikroTik Router |   September 29, 2015

    MikroTik Router has a lot of features which help to customize your network as your requirement. Sometimes, it may be your requirement that you need to allow per IP internet access. Normally, when you apply masquerade NAT rule in your MikroTik router, you accept all private IP will be masqueraded or a network block will be masqueraded. But if you do so and enable a DHCP server in your network, you may face a lot of unauthorized accesses in your [...]

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    WiFi Station Setup in MikroTik Wireless Router |   November 27, 2019

    MikroTik Wireless Router is capable of working as a WiFi Client.  So, if any ISP provides WiFi connection for their clients, MikroTik Wireless Router can be used to connect to that ISP SSID by configuring wireless station mode. MikroTik WiFi station mode finds available SSID and connects with permitted SSID.  This wireless connection can be used as wireless WAN connection and configuring LAN, multiple devices can get internet over this wireless WAN connection. In my previous article, I discussed how [...]

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    CentOS 8 Installation with Screenshots (Server with GUI) |   November 21, 2020

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    MikroTik RADIUS Server (User Manager) Installation |   October 28, 2017

    RADIUS Server is a centralized user authentication, authorization and accounting application. RADIUS authentication gives the ISP or network administrator ability to manage PPP users, login users and Hotspot users from one server throughout a large network. MikroTik RouterOS has a RADIUS client that is able to authenticate login users, Hotspot users and PPP users through a RADIUS server. MikroTik team also developed a totally separate RADIUS server package named User Manager that can be used to authenticate MikroTik users smoothly. [...]

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    MikroTik Router Bandwidth Management |   September 3, 2015

    MikroTik is one of the most popular routers in computer networking. It is said that no office or ISP company cannot go a single day without MikroTik Router. MikroTik Router is also a popular router to a network administrator because MikroTik Router is easily maintainable with graphical user interface software named winbox than other routers. A lot of services are available in MikroTik router to run a network smoothly. Among these services, Bandwidth Management Service is the most popular service in [...]

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    MikroTik Hardware Redundancy with VRRP |   October 8, 2018

    MikroTik VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) ensures high availability internet network. If any organization requires uninterrupted internet connection, MikroTik VRRP implementation will be a vital solution for them. MikroTik VRRP creates a virtual router accumulating two or more physical routers and ensures uninterrupted internet connection keeping activate one physical router always. That means, if any physical router fails to operate due to any hardware failure, MikroTik VRRP uses another backup router for internet gateway until the running router comes back [...]

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