MikroTik related blog posts and guides.
Buy the wrong MikroTik RouterOS license level, and you’ll find out – a 201st PPPoE customer who cannot connect, or a wireless mode that isn’t available. This guide breaks down exactly what Level 3, 4, 5, and 6 unlock. What stays identical across all of them. How to pick the right one before you buy…
MTCNA (MikroTik Certified Network Associate) shows up on more network engineer résumés than any other vendor certification below CCNA — and for MikroTik-heavy networks specifically, it often carries more practical weight. This guide covers what MTCNA actually tests, the one detail about how you get certified that most online “MTCNA courses” quietly leave out, a…
RouterOS runs on three completely different kinds of hardware, and the installation process is different for each one. A RouterBOARD device ships with RouterOS already installed and licensed. An x86 PC needs you to install it yourself and buy a license. A CHR instance needs neither a physical device nor a traditional license key, just…
WinBox is the tool most engineers reach for first when they sit down in front of a MikroTik device. It is faster to navigate than the terminal for most day-to-day tasks. It also exposes nearly every RouterOS setting through a clean graphical interface. This guide covers three things: downloading and installing WinBox correctly on Windows,…
A MikroTik router handling 200 PPPoE subscribers and a MikroTik network handling 50,000 subscribers are different engineering problems. The commands look similar. The failure modes do not. This guide covers the architecture decisions, hardware sizing, and configuration patterns that separate a MikroTik deployment that scales cleanly from one that falls over at the first evening…
A single router as a default gateway is a single point of failure. When it goes down, every host pointed at it loses connectivity at the same moment — no failover, no warning, just a dead gateway. VRRP fixes this by giving two or more routers one shared virtual identity, so hosts keep working even…
Every network refresh eventually lands on this question: pay for the polished cloud dashboard, or keep the control and pay less. MikroTik and Cisco Meraki sit on opposite ends of that trade-off, and neither answer is wrong — they are built for different teams solving different problems. This guide compares MikroTik and Cisco Meraki on…
MPLS L3VPN is how service providers deliver private, isolated routing to customers over one shared core network. It is also one of the least documented corners of RouterOS v7 — the syntax changed significantly from v6, and most existing guides still show the old command structure. This guide covers a full MPLS L3VPN build on…
NAT is the first thing every MikroTik router needs to reach the internet, and the first thing every misconfigured router gets wrong. One missing rule, and the whole LAN loses connectivity. One rule in the wrong order, and port forwarding silently fails. This guide covers NAT on RouterOS 7 from the ground up: masquerade, source…
GRE is the tunnel protocol you reach for when a VPN alone will not do the job. It carries routing protocols across the internet, connects two private networks over a public link, and gives BGP peers a stable path independent of the underlying ISP topology. MikroTik GRE tunnel is simple to configure — the hard…
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