Introduction of Mikrotik Router OS

Before, dive into Mikrotik world,  I want to introduce Mikrotik

What is Mikrotik

Ans: MikroTik RouterOS™ is a router  operating system and software which turns a regular Intel PC or Mikrotik  RouterBOARD™ hardware into a dedicated router.

About Comapny

MikroTik is a Latvian company which was  founded in 1995 to develop routers and wireless ISP systems. MikroTik  now provides hardware and software for Internet connectivity in most of  the countries around the world. Our experience in using industry standard PC hardware and complete routing systems allowed us in 1997 to create the RouterOS  software system that provides extensive stability, controls, and  flexibility for all kinds of data interfaces and routing. In 2002 we decided to make our own  hardware, and the RouterBOARD brand was born. We have resellers in most  parts of the world, and customers in probably every country on the  planet. Features of Mikrotik RouterOS is MikroTik’s stand-alone  operating system based on linux v2.6 kernel. The following list shows  features found in the latest RouterOS release:   Hardware Support

• i386 compatible architecture
• SMP – multi-core and multi-CPU compatible
• Minimum 32MB of RAM (maximum supported 2GB)
• IDE, SATA, USB and flash storage medium with minimum of 64MB space
• Network cards supported by linux v2.6 kernel (PCI, PCI-X)
• Partial hardware compatibility list (user maintained)
• Switch chip configuration support

Installation

• M:Netinstall: Full network based installation from PXE or EtherBoot enabled network card
• Netinstall: Installation to a secondary drive mounted in Windows
• CD based installation

Configuration

• MAC based access for initial configuration
• WinBox – standalone Windows GUI configuration tool
• Webfig – advanced web based configuration interface
• Basic web interface configuration tool
• Powerful command-line configuration interface with integrated scriptingcapabilities, accessible via local terminal, serial console, telnet and ssh
• API – the way to create your own configuration and monitoring applications.

Backup/Restore

• Binary configuration backup saving and loading
• Configuration export and import in human readable text format

Firewall

• Statefull filtering
• Source and destination NAT
• NAT helpers (h323, pptp, quake3, sip, ftp, irc, tftp)
• Internal connection, routing and packet marks
• Filtering by IP address and address range, port and port range, IP protocol, DSCP and many more
• Address lists
• Custom Layer7 matcher
• IPv6 support
• PCC – per connection classifier, used in load balancing configurations

Routing

• Static routing
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• Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
• Policy based routing
• Interface routing
• ECMP routing
• IPv4 dynamic routing protocols: RIP v1/v2, OSPFv2, BGP v4
• IPv6 dynamic routing protocols: RIPng, OSPFv3, BGP
• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection ( BFD)

r MPLS

• Static Label bindings for IPv4
• Label Distribution protocol for IPv4
• RSVP Traffic Engineering tunnels
• VPLS MP-BGP based autodiscovery and signaling
• MP-BGP based MPLS IP VPN
• complete list of MPLS features

VPN

• Ipsec – tunnel and transport mode, certificate or PSK, AH and ESP security protocols. Hardware encryption support on RouterBOARD 1000.
• Point to point tunneling (OpenVPN, PPTP, PPPoE, L2TP, SSTP)
• Advanced PPP features (MLPPP, BCP)
• Simple tunnels ( IPIP, EoIP) IPv4 andIPv6 support
• 6to4 tunnel support (IPv6 over IPv4 network)
• title=”Manual:Interface/VLAN”  href=”http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/VLAN”> VLAN –  IEEE802.1q Virtual LAN support, Q-in-Q support
• MPLS based VPNs

Wireless

• IEEE802.11a/b/g wireless client and access point
• Full IEEE802.11n support
• Nstreme and Nstreme2 proprietary protocols
• NV2 protocol
• Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
• Virtual AP
• WEP, WPA, WPA2
• Access control list
• Wireless client roaming
• WMM
• > HWMP+ Wireless MESH protocol
• MME wireless routing protocol

DHCP

• Per interface DHCP server
• DHCP client and relay
• Static and dynamic DHCP leases
• RADIUS support
• Custom DHCP options
• DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (DHCPv6-PD)
• DHCPv6 Client

Hotspot

• Plug-n-Play access to the Network
• Authentication of local Network Clients
• Users Accounting
• RADIUS support for Authentication and Accounting

QoS

• Hierarchical Token Bucket ( HTB) QoS system with CIR, MIR, burst and priority support
• Simple and fast solution for basic QoS implementation – Simple queues
• Dynamic client rate equalization ( PCQ)

Proxy

• HTTP caching proxy server
• Transparent HTTP proxy
• SOCKS protocol support
• DNS static entries
• Support for caching on a separate drive
• Parent proxy support
• Access control list
• Caching list

Tools

• Ping, traceroute
• Bandwidth test, ping flood
• Packet sniffer, torch
• Telnet, ssh
• E-mail and SMS send tools
• Automated script execution tools
• CALEA
• File Fetch tool
• Advanced traffic generator

Other features

• Bridging – spanning tree protocol (STP, RSTP), bridge firewall and MAC natting.
• Dynamic DNS update tool
• NTP client/server and synchronization with GPS system
• VRRP v2 and v3 support
• SNMP
• M3P – MikroTik Packet packer protocol for wireless links and ethernet
• MNDP – MikroTik neighbor discovery protocol, supports CDP (Cisco discovery protocol)
• RADIUS authentication and accounting
• TFTP server
• Synchronous interface support (Farsync cards only) (Removed in v5.x)
• Asynchronous – serial PPP dial-in/dial-out, dial on demand
• ISDN – dial-in/dial-out, 128K bundle support, Cisco HDLC, x75i, x75ui, x75bui line protocols, dial on demand