Guides & How To

This is part 1 of a VPN HowTo to aid in the set up of secure VPN services on Mikrotik Devices, in part 1 I will focus on basic set-up and MikroTik to MikroTik secure VPN. Part 1.5 can be found here which focuses on Mikrotik to Mikrotik IPsec VPN. …

  We are often asked how to make building to building or ‘point to point’ wireless links. As the MikroTik interface does not change between models this ‘How To’ can apply to any MikroTik Wireless based device. For this How To I will be using a pair of the new MikroTik …

(This how to also applies to 2.4GHz Ubiquiti Equipment) We are often asked how to make building to building or ‘point to point’ wireless links. This HowTo explains how to use Ubiquiti Nanostations to make a transparent link. The first port of call for configuring any Ubiquiti device is to …

Ubiquiti recently made their 3 port mFi mPower (EU plug only) available in Europe. It provides 3 plug sockets that can be controlled via WiFi using their freely downloadable mFi controller software. Setup is fairly straight forward. In the first instance the mPower becomes an access point that you can …

The EdgeRouter Lite from Ubiquiti promises excellent performance for a great price. So what performance can you get out of it ? We tested two things: 1) a typical routed configuration, including NAT, and stateful firewalling. 2) IPSec over a routed connection. Here are the headline figures: (tests using iperf …

The new 1.2.0beta2 version of the EdgeMAX software on the EdgeRouter Lite has the following entry in its changelog: [PPPoE] Add IPv6 settings for PPPoE client interfaces, which allows a PPPoE client interface to work with IPv6 address So how does that work and how can we use it ? …

A typical wireless broadband provider/WISP usually has multiple radios, each with their own POE connection. Here’s a way of providing Gigabit POE with the ability to power cycle individual radios: For Gigabit POE we use a MikroTik RouterBoard Gigabit Passive PoE Injector:   Each POE injector plugs into the main router …

Unfortunately the Ubiquiti AirCam Mini doesn’t, out of the box, allow you to FTP images from the camera to a remote server. We can however fix that though in this instance we’re looking at sending single frames, not streamed video. The AirCam has something in common with many Ubiquiti products, it …

It seems that some people didn’t like their MAC address being magically used as part of their IPv6 address, and so some bright spark created the concept of privacy addresses – see RFC3041 However sometimes we need to be able to control the behaviour, sometimes we want to enable them …