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MikroTik VRRP Configuration with Load Sharing
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 again. In the previous article, I discussed the basic MikroTik VRRP configuration to establish a high available internet network. But in basic configuration, the backup router keeps completely idle during Backup state and this behavior may be considered as waste of valuable resources. In MikroTik VRRP, it is possible to set backup router as a gateway for some clients and this method is known as load-sharing scheme. In this article, I will discuss how to configure MikroTik VRRP with Load Sharing scheme. Network Diagram To configure MikroTik VRRP with Load Sharing scheme, I am following a network diagram like the below image. In this network, two MikroTik RouterOS (R1_RouterOS and R2_RouterOS) are member of a MikroTik VRRP with load sharing [...]
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How to Separate MikroTik Hotspot and DHCP IP Pool | October 9, 2020
MikroTik default Hotspot Setup comes with a DHCP Server (which uses same IP Pool of Hotspot Server) to provide IP address and other network information to a connected device. Using this automatic IP address connected device can access Hotspot login page. After successfully login, a one to one NAT IP address is also assigned for the device and this process happens internally in Hotspot Server. User device cannot know this one to one NAT IP assigning. However, Hotspot Server actually [...]
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Firewalld Installation and Configuration in Ubuntu Server | May 5, 2022
Firewalld is an awesome host based firewall management tool for Linux Operating System. Firewalld has developed on Fedora but it is now available for almost all Linux distributions. So, Firewalld can be installed in Ubuntu Server although Ubuntu Server has UFW as the default firewall system. Firewalld is more robust and easy to maintain than UFW, I think. So, I am going to discuss how to install and configure Firewalld in Ubuntu Server. Installing Firewalld in Ubuntu Server By default [...]
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MikroTik VLAN and Bridge Configuration | September 19, 2017
VLAN and Bridge are two useful features in MikroTik Router. These two features are frequently used in any MikroTik network configuration. VLAN divides a physical interface into multiple logical interfaces. So, you can isolate your network into multiple logical networks on a physical interface. On other hand, MikroTik Bridge integrates multiple physical interfaces in a logical interface. So, you can extend your broadcast domain on multiple physical interfaces and can extend your popular services such as PPPoE or DHCP on [...]
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MikroTik IPIP Tunnel with IPsec (Site to Site VPN) | March 18, 2018
VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that provides a secure tunnel across a public network. A private network user can send and receive data to any remote private network using VPN Tunnel as if his/her network device was directly connected to that private network. MikroTik provides IPIP tunnel that is used to create a site to site VPN. IPIP tunnel is a simple protocol that encapsulates IP packets in IP to make a tunnel between two routers. To encapsulate [...]
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FreeRADIUS User Profile Configuration for MikroTik Router | January 10, 2019
FreeRADIUS is a high performance RADIUS application that accepts a large number of network devices as RADIUS Client including MikroTik Router. FreeRADIUS MySQL module helps to get user authentication and authorization information from database server and to store user accounting information in database server. Configuring MySQL user group and profile properly, freeRADIUS user restriction can easily be maintained. How to configure user group to apply user limitation was discussed in my previous article. In this article, I will discuss how [...]
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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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Single IP NAT Strategy in MikroTik RouterOS 7 | September 29, 2015
MikroTik Router has a lot of features which help to customize network as our requirement. Sometimes, it may be our requirement that we need to allow internet access on per IP. Normally, when we apply masquerade NAT rule in our MikroTik Router, all private IPs will be masqueraded or a network block will be masqueraded. If we do normal masqurade and enable a DHCP Server in our network, we may face a lot of unauthorized access in our network. Because [...]
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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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MikroTik OpenVPN Setup with Windows Client | April 2, 2018
VPN (Virtual Private Network) technology provides a secure and encrypted tunnel across a public network. So, a private network user can send and receive data to any remote private network through VPN tunnel as if his/her network device was directly connected to that private network. MikroTik OpenVPN Server provides a secure and encrypted tunnel across public network for transporting IP traffic using PPP. OpenVPN uses SSL Certificates. So, OpenVPN Tunnel is a trusted tunnel to send and receive data across [...]
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