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  • MikroTik Router Web Proxy Configuration

    A Proxy Server is usually placed between users and the internet so that the proxy server can track the activities of any user. Formerly, a proxy server was mainly used for caching the static content of any web server because the internet speed was too slow. So, users would get high speed for browsing as if they were browsing a local server. But nowadays the internet bandwidth has increased. So, the proxy server is usually not used for web caching today rather than it is popularly used as ACL (Access Control List) server. MikroTik RouterOS can perform as a HTTP proxy server. As a proxy server MikroTik Router has the following features. Regular HTTP Proxy Server: MikroTik Router can perform as a regular HTTP proxy server where a user can specify the proxy for him with his/her browser. Transparent proxy server: MikroTik RouterOS can also perform as a transparent proxy server where users do not know about the proxy being enabled and there is no extra configuration to the user’s browser. Access Control List: It can do access list by source, destination, URL and requested method (HTTP firewall). Cache access list: MikroTik can specify which object have to cache and [...]

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    How to Block Free Proxy Access with MikroTik Router |   May 21, 2019

    Proxy Server is an alternative to VPN that breaks blocking firewall of a network. If any user uses free web proxy server with web browser, the web request is processed by the proxy server. So, blocking firewall rule is not applied on the proxy enabled PC. For this, system administrators should be careful enough to block free proxy servers along with blocking VPN access. In my previous article, I discussed how to block VPN access with MikroTik Firewall. In this [...]

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    MikroTik WebProxy Log Analyzer Configuration |   August 30, 2016

    MikroTik RouterOS generally logs various system events and status information. Logs are mainly saved in router’s memory (RAM) or disk. MikroTik logs can also be sent by email or even can be sent to a remote syslog server. All logs those are saved in router’s local memory can be viewed from Log menu. Any log entry that is saved in local memory contains time and date when event occurred, topics that this message belongs to and message itself. But local [...]

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    MikroTik VPN Configuration with PPTP (Connecting Remote Client) |   August 17, 2016

    VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that extends private network across a public network. It enables private network users to send and receive data across public network as if their network devices were directly connected to the private network. There are many VPN services in MikroTik RouterOS 7. Among them, MikroTik PPTP is a mostly used VPN service. It is a client-server VPN technology. So, a user can access server, printer, IP phone and any other network devices of [...]

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    MikroTik Configuration with DHCP WAN Connection |   March 24, 2019

    MikroTik Router is one of the most popular routers because of having a lot of networking features. MikroTik DHCP Client is a special feature that is used to connect to any DHCP Server. So, if any uplink ISP provides DHCP connection, MikroTik Router is able to connect that DHCP Server using this DHCP Client. In my previous article, I discussed how to configure MikroTik Router with PPPoE WAN Connection. In this article, I will discuss how to configure MikroTik Router [...]

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    MikroTik Hotspot with Bandwidth Limitation and Prepaid Billing System |   January 14, 2018

    Say, you are a network administrator and want to establish a network that will have user bandwidth package management facility with prepaid billing system as well as partner advertisement facility. Then, MikroTik Hotspot Server Configuration with MikroTik User Manager Radius Server will be a wise decision. Because, MikroTik User Manager Radius Server is a user authentication, authorization and accounting application that will give facility to manage user bandwidth package with prepaid billing system. On the other hand, you can easily [...]

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    MikroTik PPPoE Server Configuration with freeRADIUS Server |   January 20, 2019

    PPPoE Service is one of the most popular services in MikroTik Router. It is specially used by the local ISP provider for the simplicity of client connection. MikroTik PPPoE Service accepts user or client authentication and authorization both MikroTik local user database and RADIUS user database. RADIUS Server provides an efficient way to manage user authentication, authorization and accounting.  FreeRADIUS is a high performance RADIUS suite that provides user authentication, authorization and accounting facility for a number of network devices [...]

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    How to Bind Hotspot User to MAC and Static IP in MikroTik |   November 6, 2020

    MikroTik Hotspot is usually a user based Hotspot access controlling system. Internet access and bandwidth can easily be maintained with Hotspot user based system. But sometimes we may require more control on Hotspot system which is not possible only username based system. So, we may need to bind hotspot user to MAC and static IP address. If we can bind hotspot user to static IP address, it is easy to control Hotspot users with MikroTik Router and Firewall. So, in [...]

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    Red Hat/CentOS 7 Linux Installation (Minimal Packages) |   April 18, 2017

    Linux is a free and open source operating system developed by Linus Torvalds on September 17, 1991. It is mainly used as server environment. A lot of Linux distributions are present today. Among them, Red Hat Linux is used as enterprise Linux. Red Hat is also known as Red Hat commercial Linux that means Red Hat is a paid service program. CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is another Linux distribution that provides a free and open source, enterprise-class, community-supported server platform functionally [...]

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    MikroTik Site to Site OpenVPN Server Setup (RouterOS Client) |   April 9, 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 Server uses SSL Certificates. So, OpenVPN Tunnel is a trusted tunnel to send and receive data [...]

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