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Blocking .zip domains with DNS proxy

Background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V82lHNsSPww Use Mikrotik DNS proxy for blocking The...

Creating a CHR instance in AWS EC2

RouterOS CHR instances in AWS EC2 I have experience with T2, T3, and T3a, primarily nano and mic...

Failover for type=FWD entries in the RouterOS DNS proxy

The Mikrotik DNS resolver supports static entries with type=FWD (forward). Combining this with th...

Notes

Stream packet sniffer to Wireshark Start a promiscuous capture with filter "udp port 37008" S...

PoE Budgets and Specs

hEX PoE (RB960PGS) and PowerBox Pro (RB906PGS-PB) 5 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 1 Gigabit SFP ca...

Recursive routing in RouterOS 6 vs 7

Recursive routing allows you to create a route with a defined next hop that is not actually direc...

The Dude

For being mostly free (at most $45), Mikrotik's The Dude monitoring system is on of the most usef...

DHCP Server Option Matcher

MAC OUI The following MAC OUI matching requires at least RouterOS 7.18.2. It leverages matching ...

Scripting

Logging

    Interesting log messages These are log messages that have been observed that would be idea...

Snippets

Container

Howto Prepping the base configuration /system logging action add name=ContainerLog target=...