Category: RouterOS

Baby Jumbo Frames and PPPoE

It’s quite common for ISPs to assign static IP addresses to their customers via PPPoE rather that via DHCP. Eir, the largest ISP in Ireland is no exception and since 2005 I think I’ve had the same IP address assigned to me via ADSL, VDSL and now FTTH via PPPoE. One of the first things …

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Zerotier Controller on Mikrotik CHR

RouterOS DIsk Format Dialog Box

As of RouterOS 7.4Beta4 Mikrotik have added container functionality back in to RouterOS. I’ve had mixed experiences with containers over the years and never really took to them however, running them on RouterOS provides an excellent opportunity to add some functionality to RouterOS that’s missing. Most notable among these for me at least is the …

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Mikrotik RouterOS: Simple Policy Based Routing

So let’s say you have multiple ISPs or different rules for VLAN traffic and you want a simple way to define which network routes through which gateway. In this example we have a routing table main and a routing table 4G Routing table main uses the default route which is a PPPoE connection on the same router. Routing table 4G uses a …

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Mikrotik RouterOS: VLANs

VLANs on RouterOS used to be a bit of a dark art and was very much dependant on the hardware. What worked on one might not work on another. Thankfully that has changed some time ago in the 6.3x releases and now there’s a standard way using bridge VLAN filtering. A quick note before we …

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