The Higher Institute of

Telecommunications and Post

Mikrotik Router OS Training Class

Eng.Ahmed R. Nassir

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About Mikrotik
MikroTik is a Latvian company which was founded in
1996 to develop routers and wireless ISP systems.
MikroTik now provides hardware and software for
Internet connectivity in most of the countries around the
world.

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Some MK Devices

You can see more at https://mikrotik.com/products

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Course Objective

Training for installing

Configuring and troubleshooting

Router OS functions

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First Access

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Downloading Winbox Loader

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ways Configuring Router

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Winbox loader Maintenance
Save addresses
Save Passwords
 Use secure mode
Export and import addresses
Clear the cache

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Connecting to the router
Connect to Router using its MAC –Address

Username :admin
Password:
It is not possible to disable admin user or
delete it except you add new user before
disable admin user.

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Router File Management
Include backups
Update files
Highlight all files and delete them
You can backup and restore router and upgrade router.

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Winbox interface

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Secure the router

IP services used To change the default Winbox,SSh,Telnet router port

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Default user
admin is the default user with no password

admin is full-group access

Group full has max permissions

To secure router you should add new user

At least there is one full user

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Adding user

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Assign IP addresses
Go to IP address in winbox and click “+” to open new
dialogue
 No need to put network only prefix

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System identity

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Neighbor discovery
By default its enables for all interfaces

Enable discovery is to see neighbor devices

MNDP is l2 local network

Its used UDP port 5678

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Bridging

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Adding Bridge
To add a bridge interface to the router
􏀭 Click Bridge in winbox to open up the
 bridge window
􏀭 Click + to add a new bridge interface, give the bridge a
name
(if desired) and click OK

In command line, use command

􏀭 /interface bridge add to add a bridge
􏀭 /interface bridge print to see the bridge interface
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Adding bridge-ports

By default RSTP is enabled on Bridge to Prevent loops

Bridges are used with DHCP,PPPOE ,Hotspot configuration
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System backup and restore
backup will create files identified with identity and
date and time
You can change the name of backup files
The restoration is for same device
Backup files non editable
Entire configuration loaded with backup including
user-password of router

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Factory Reset
Ether 1 is WAN port with DHCP-client and no discovery
Ether 2-x is bridged and have DHCP-Server
192.168.88.0/24 pool

If there is WLAN it will have SSID: Mikrotik bridged to

LAN
Web administration
Webfig

IP services (www) enable

Access via “http://router - ip “

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Bandwidth test

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Interface traffic monitor

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Configuration reset

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Thanks