2. 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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8. Winbox loader Maintenance
Save addresses
Save Passwords
Use secure mode
Export and import addresses
Clear the cache
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9. 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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10. 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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13. 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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17. 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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19. 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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20. Adding bridge-ports
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By default RSTP is enabled on Bridge to Prevent loops
Bridges are used with DHCP,PPPOE ,Hotspot configuration
21. 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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22. 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
