You guys will continue to see me post aboutMikrotik. Most of you will have never heard of it, which is a shame. Mikrotik is a rich man’s all in one router at a poor man’s price. It has a huge feature set including OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VPLS, VPN aggregation, 802.1q trunking, superb firewalling, layer 7 firewalling and policy matching, queueing and much more. All of this with a cli and an unmatched GUI. It is a Linux base, though you are locked out of the base OS, which makes it more an appliance than a server. You can load this on any x86 PC for the low price of $50 for a level 4 license.
They also sell ridiculously cheap embedded systems at routerboard.com.
You will hear me talk about their wired implementations most often, but they cut their teeth, and have the highest density of usage as wireless devices. Most of the WISPs in the area use them for their high features and low cost. I’ve seen wireless shots, including both sides of the link, getting 50Mb of throughput for a total cost of ~$500!
Needless to say, it is an exciting product…or I’m just very excitable.
PS: You can install on a machine and run unlicensed for 24 hours. Try throwing it on an old box or on a VM and see what you think. What do you have to loose?
What is winbox?
To Download winbox go to winbox Download
The MikroTik RouterOS can be configured remotely, using Telnet, SSH, WinBoxConsole or Webbox
? WHAT IS WINBOX
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| main interface before login to mikrotik router os |
Winbox is a small program that allows users to control and monitor Mikrotik RouterOSusing a fast and
simple graphical user interface
OS
winbox.exe work with .win xp .win vista .win 7 .win8
and can be run on Linux(like ubuntu) and MacOSX using Wine program (tool that run win programs on other os).
Android
There are tools that can be downloaded on Android and do some winbox functions, but it's unofficial and not alternative the use of winbox and the best solution to control mikrotik by Android is using Webbox
winbox for iphone and ipad
the same as android there is atools but not official and not good as winbox and the good alternative is using webbox
winbox Efficiency vs other control method
All Winbox interface functions are as close as possible to Console functions Except Some of advanced and system critical configurations are not possible from winbox like MAC address change on an interface
Starting the Winbox
you can download winbox directly from your router
Open your browser and enter router's IP address, RouterOS welcome page will be displayed. Click on the link to download winbox.exe
http://router_address/winbox/winbox.exe
after downloading and connect to mikrotik routeros you can see the main control panel
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| main interface after login to mikrotik router os |
winbox Features
--very easy to use (You do not need to write complex codes ).
-- mikrotik winbox is totaly free.
--very small and no need to setup (bootable).
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Thread also answer the following questions:-
what is mikrotik winbox?
what is winbox loader?
what is winbox software?
what is routeros winbox?
what is winbox.exe?
To Download winbox go to winbox Download
The MikroTik RouterOS can be configured remotely, using Telnet, SSH, WinBoxConsole or Webbox
? WHAT IS WINBOX
|
| main interface before login to mikrotik router os |
Winbox is a small program that allows users to control and monitor Mikrotik RouterOSusing a fast and
simple graphical user interface
OS
winbox.exe work with .win xp .win vista .win 7 .win8
and can be run on Linux(like ubuntu) and MacOSX using Wine program (tool that run win programs on other os).
Android
There are tools that can be downloaded on Android and do some winbox functions, but it's unofficial and not alternative the use of winbox and the best solution to control mikrotik by Android is using Webbox
winbox for iphone and ipad
the same as android there is atools but not official and not good as winbox and the good alternative is using webbox
winbox Efficiency vs other control method
All Winbox interface functions are as close as possible to Console functions Except Some of advanced and system critical configurations are not possible from winbox like MAC address change on an interface
Starting the Winbox
you can download winbox directly from your router
Open your browser and enter router's IP address, RouterOS welcome page will be displayed. Click on the link to download winbox.exe
http://router_address/winbox/winbox.exe
after downloading and connect to mikrotik routeros you can see the main control panel
|
| main interface after login to mikrotik router os |
winbox Features
--very easy to use (You do not need to write complex codes ).
-- mikrotik winbox is totaly free.
--very small and no need to setup (bootable).
.............................................................................................................................................
Thread also answer the following questions:-
what is mikrotik winbox?
what is winbox loader?
what is winbox software?
what is routeros winbox?
what is winbox.exe?
How To Setup PPPOE Server In MikroTIk
If you are running your own wireless ISP/CABLE NET, PPPoE is the preferred method of getting your clients to dialup to your service. Making use of PPPoE allows you to get rid of static client IP addresses, make use of usernames and passwords, and enforce basic bandwith management.
The first configuration that needs to be done is for us to create an “IP Pool” which is a range of IP addresses for the MikroTik router to hand out to clients when they sign in with their user names and passwords. The IP Range of the IP Pool can be anything that you choose.
Once you have the IP Pool done, we can proceed to creating the PPPoE server. Once you have a new PPPoE server creation window open, simply choose the interface of the MikroTick router that you would like to cat as the PPPoE server, in this example I ave chosen the wlan1 card.
We can now create a profile for the PPPoE server to use. This profile is where we will do some basic bandwidth management. This is also where we will specify the use of the IP Pool we created earlier. You can create as many profiles according to your need, all with different bandwidth speeds, and simply apply them to the relevant users.
After creating profile we can proceed to create some users. This is done in the “Secrets” tab. Simply choose the Username and Password that you would like to dedicate to your client, select the profile that was created and you are ready to go. You may create as many users as you wish. Your client can now dialup to this PPPoE server by creating a PPPoE dialup connections.
