Learning MikroTik

• Specifications
  
• Specifications Sheet (Hardware reguirements, RouterOS features and capabilities list)
• Device Driver List (List of currently supported hardware)
• License Management (Licensing information)
  

User Guides

• Basic Setup Guide (This is a good point to start learning RouterOS)
• Installing RouterOS with CD-Install
• Installing RouterOS with Floppies
• Installing RouterOS with NetInstal
  

• Configuration Management (Tools to backup/restore, export/import and reset system configuration)
• FTP (File Transfer Protocoll) Server Configuration, package and HotSpot file storage facility
• MAC Level Access (Telnet and Winbox) Zero-configuration remote access
• Serial Console and Terminal Initial access option for RouterBoard. Uses serial port for accessing the router
• Software Package Managemen
• Software Version Management Describes software upgrade process
• SSH (Secure Shell) Server and Client Secure remote administration protocol (recommended)
• Telnet Server and Client Insecure remote administration protocol (not recommended)
• Terminal Console General information about console navigation, common commands and functions
• Winbox Graphical remote administration interface

IP Addressing and Routing

• IP Addresses and ARP (Basic IP level configuration and Address Resolution Protocol modes)
• OSPF (Dynamic link state interior routing protocol. Supports Equal Cost Multipath routing)
• RIP (Dynamic distance vector interior routing protocol)
• Routes, Equal Cost Multipath Routing, Policy Routing (Static routing, policy based routing and load balancing with failover)
• BGP Command Reference
• BGP Routing Filters

Interfaces

• ARLAN 655 Wireless Client Card (Legacy wireless interface)
• Interface Bonding (Combines multiple Ethernet-like interfaces into one single pipe. Provides higher speeds and availability)
• Bridge
• CISCO/Aironet 2.4GHz 11Mbps Wireless Card (Legacy wireless interface)
• Cyclades PC300 PCI Card (V.35/X.21 synchronous card)
• Driver Management (Contains information on working with ISA and PCMCIA cards)
  Ethernet Interfaces
• FarSync X.21 Card (V.35/T1/E1/X.21 synchronous card)
• FrameRelay (PVC) Protocol
• General Interface Settings (Common parameters and monitoring commands for all interfaces)
• GPRS PCMCIA (Usage notes for CardBUS (PCMCIA) GPRS gards)
• ISDN Interfaces
  M3P (M3P optimizes the data rate usage of links using protocols that have a high overhead per packet transmitted)
• MOXA C101 Synchronous Card (V.35 synchronous card)
• MOXA C502 Dual-port Synchronous Card (V.35 synchronous card)
  PPP and Asynchronous Interfaces (Conventional dial-in and dial-out services)
• RadioLAN 5.8GHz Wireless Interface (Legacy wireless interface)
• Sangoma Synchronous Interfaces
• LMC/SBEI Synchronous Interfaces
• Wireless Client and Wireless Access Point Manual (IEEE 802.11a/b/g cards on Prism and Atheros chipsets)
• Xpeed SDSL (Symmetric DSL interface)

Virtual Private Networking

• EoIP (Ethernet-level tunnel. Alows bridging of remote networks and bonding)
• IP Security (Standard method for multi-protocol high-grade security communications)
• IPIP (Fast and simple IP level tunnel)
• L2TP (Common protocol for deploying VPN networks. Uses IPsec for authentication
• information exchange)
• PPPoE (Secure and authenticated way of connecting users to a network)
• PPTP (Widely-used protocol for deploying VPN networks)
• VLAN (Layer 2 network circuit segregation)

Authentication, Authorization, Accounting and Monitoring

• Graphing (Tool to monitor various RouterOS parameters using graphical representation of them)
• HotSpot User AAA (AAA services for HotSpot gateway)
• IP Accounting (Accounting service for IP protocol on per address tuple basis)
• PPP User AAA (L2TP, asyncronous PPP, PPTP, PPPoE and ISDN user AAA)
• RADIUS client (General configuration interface for centralised AAA services)
• Router User AAA (AAA services for RouterOS users (router’s local users)
• Traffic Flow (Powerful accounting and network diagnostics tool)
• SNMP (Allows to monitor the router remotely)
• Log Management (System event monitoring facility)

Firewall and Quality of Service

• Bandwidth Control (Describes the use of queues and queue trees to manage traffic data rate (traffic shaping) and provide Quality of Service for network users)
• Filter (Packet filtering facility for protecting and limiting network hosts)
• IP Address Lists (Supplementary tool facilitating simplified and transparent configuration of firewall services for different IP address sets)
• Mangle (Complementary operations with IP packets including MSS and TOS fields change and packet marking for later processing with packet filters, NAT rules, queues and policy routing)
• NAT (Network Address Translation) maps one set of IP addresses to another set of IP addresses)
• Packet Flow General description of packet processing sequence; connection tracking description)
• Services, Protocols, and Ports

Plug-and-Play Network Access

• DHCP Client, Server and Relay (Dynamic IP address assignment to network clients)
• DNS Client and Cache (DNS client facility with caching proxy functionality)
• HotSpot Gateway (Instant (Plug-and-Play) network access points)
• HTTP Proxy (Simple multiprotocol proxy service)
• IP Pools (Shared use of IP address sets for IP address assignment facilities (PPP, DHCP and HotSpot)
• SOCKS Proxy Server (SOCKS v4 universal multiprotocol port server)
• UPnP (Transparent instant network discovery and configuration protocol)
• Web Proxy (Advanced multiprotocol proxy service with caching functionality)

System Information and Utilities

• Certificate Management (Facility for managing SSL certificates)
• DDNS Update Tool (Tool to update Dynamic DNS record for alternating IP address)
• GPS Synchronization (Stratum 1 NTP time source and location retrieval from GPS)
• LCD Management (Useful information output to text LCD modules)
• MNDP (Mikrotik Neighbor Discovery Protocol and Cisco Discovery Protocol service)
• System Clock and NTP (System Clock, Network Time Protocol server and client)
• RouterBoard-specific functions (RouterOS specific functionality for RouterBOARD Computer systems)
• Support Output File (Debug information file required for submission with support request)
• System Resource Management (Various small utilities under /system menu)

Diagnostics Tools

• Bandwidth Test (Connection throughput evaluation tool)
• ICMP Bandwidth Estimation (Connection throughput approximation tool)
• Packet Sniffer (Ethernet traffic inspection tool)
• Ping (Network probing tool)
• Torch (Realtime traffic flow monitoring tool)
• Traceroute (Network path verification utility)

Scripting Host and Complementary Tools

• Network Monitor (Conditional host availability monitoring)
• Serial Port Monitor (Serial port signalling monitor service)
• Scripting Host (RouterOS built-in scripting engine and scripting language reference)
• System Scheduler (Facility for periodic execution of scripts)
• Traffic Monitor (Conditional data rate monitoring)

IP Telephony

• IP Telephony (Voice transmission over data connections)
  

High Availability

• System Watchdog (Resident service for restarting router in case of crash or network failure)
• UPS Monitor (Software status tool for UPS power supplies)
• VRRP (High availability default path support)
  

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