In my trainings I use Unetlab environment. I recommend to everyone use Unetlab and get rid of GNS3, because difference in performance and support of different vendors is huge. Last year Mikrotik announced their RouterOS license for virtual machines, called Cloud Hosted Router (CHR). I’m going to show how to setup CHR in Unetlab in few[…]
We are running MPLS on RouterOS for over one year and still I’m getting new errors in MPLS implementation on RouterOS. Below is a list of all issues, I’ve found (versions < 6.33) : 1. The main problem is separation of VRFs. RouterOS is a linux based system and all VRF tables are linux routing[…]
My presentation from global event – Mikrotik User Meeting 2015 in Prague
In today world the strongest DDOS are amplification attacks. They use UDP based services. There 2 steps of the attack. First – attacker finds wrong configured servers on public Internet. The second step is that PC with malware sends to these servers small UDP packets with changed IP address. In IP SRC field of the[…]
I had a small task to connect two branch offices of a customer, one in Cape and second in JHB. Unfortunately JHB is not part of our MPLS network and has two Uplink connections, each 1 Mbps with Serial interfaces. When I was studying for CCNP I got a lot of Serial links tasks but[…]
First of all I would like to say that BGP configuration on Mikrotik can be made with CLI and Winbox/Webadmin. I recommend to use CLI with BGP, because this protocol contains a lot of routes and display them in Winbox is painful. Let’s assume that our AS number is – AS12345, IP address is – 192.168.255.25,[…]