How to get started with MikroTik router. Mikrotik router basic configuration

hello guys it's mr whisper254 thanks for coming back and joining us in this channel so basically what i want us to look at today i want us to look at the basic microtic configurations so basically this is uh these are the configurations that will get you started so that you can have things running not something which is complicated just a very simple and easy setup so for all your micro tech routers you will always need and it's way easier to use a windbox so you'll always need windbox which is a user interface which will help you navigate through so that you can be able to set up and configure your micro tech router so to get wind box basically all you need to do is come to this link right here microtech dot com slash downloads then there's this win box here so basically you will just choose what suits your operating system they have a 32-bit and a 64-bit so mine is a 64-bit and this is what i've chosen i've already downloaded it so when you do that this is what you're going to have let me just minimize this now because now this is what we are going to work with so this is your win box and once you download it when you come and click connect browser it gives you it it checks and it gives you some of the microtic routers that are connected currently so right now we have this which is uh the current micro tick which is connected so once uh basically when a router is new or it has been reset it has no configuration so the way to log into it your login is going to be admin and your password is just going to be blank like that so let us get into this come and click connect so let's so basically once you log into a micro tech router which is in its default status it comes with some of its configurations so you can either choose to use those configurations or you can choose to remove them so that you can configure your own configurations as you want it so for today for today we are going to remove this so you click remove configuration so we'll just maximize this and once you've removed the configuration the router should be able to reboot so maybe let's start a new inbox session from here we are going to close that so yeah it's already closed by itself let's close this as well so once you've removed all the configuration you're going to notice that now your iep is now 0.0.0.0 the logins are still the same no password you now click on connect so for starters what i basically like to do because you are really going to be using this router a lot and you need to know its performance and how long it's been up and uh such kinds of small details which will help you know the status of your router so you come to this bar right here right click on it and then you say add time so it's going to give you time right there right click again and you say add date it's going to show you the date right click the space again and say add cpu so this is going to show you the cpu usage this is very very important because at times you find people use the traffic that's passing through the router is so high that the cpu usage gets to 90. so when it gets to that figure your client experience is really going to be compromised and you really that's the point where you'll now start getting a lot of calls from your clients complaining of low speeds and stuff like that so when for me personally when it gets to around 78 percent now definitely that's time to upgrade even though you can wait for it to get to 90 it's definitely going to be your choice then you would also want to know the memory usage and then you'd also want to know the uptime so basically the uptime this is going to let you know for how long the router has been up so for this instance this route has been up for 15 minutes and uh let's say 16 minutes or so so that is one of the settings that i usually do then another thing i would like to do is i would want to now maybe secure my router a little bit so i'll need to have a username and a password to login so for that i you basically come to system then you come and say password so definitely there's no old password we are going to leave it blank and our new password just for demonstration purposes let's say one two three four five of course one two three four five is not a good password that's a very very weak password i would not recommend that you use that i'm just using it for demonstration purposes one two three four five then click on change so the next time i would want to log into this router it's going to ask me for a password so that is how you go about changing your password then i would also want to change my identity or maybe just give the router a name so you come to systems and you can see here it's written identity so current the current identity is micro tick let's get rid of that maybe we can use mr wisp 254 we are going to use that as our identity apply okay so you can be able to see up here that the identity is now changed to mr ruiz 254 that is another thing that you can always do for your router so now we want to get this router started we want to get it connected to the internet so that it can be able to access the internet and we also wanted to be able to serve our clients so you can there are two ways of doing this you can either come to the quick set you can be able to do it from the quick set area we will talk about that maybe later for now let's come to basically what i want us to do is create a dhcp client so how a dhcp client works is such that your internet provider has given you internet access and uh this internet provider is giving you internet access just is assigning you an ip which will give you internet access and this ip is going to be a dynamic ip so for you to set up a dhcp client all you need to do is come to ip click dhcp client and just for proper demonstration purposes let's just make sure that the router doesn't have any internet so it's asking for logins it's admin you click on enter then you remember our password was one two three four five enter note that when you input the password from the terminal it won't show so we are in so let's ping 888 and you can see the router is not connected to any internet we have no internet at all if you come to the ip address we also know we have no ip address here so i will leave this running here so that we can see if any changes if any change happens i will also leave the address list here so that if any changes if any change occurs we can be able to see so basically what you now want to do we want to make this router have internet so we basically we said you come to ip and click on dhcp client so we click on add currently as i'm doing this i already have my cable which is from my isp plugged on to port one of the router because that's where the internet is going to come through so okay it's logged me out let me just log back in no no it's now needs a password one two three four five connect yep yeah so basically we now want to do the ghcp client all you need to do is click add uh the interface we are going to use is it one and you do also want to leave these checked as they are then just click apply okay so you can see already we've been assigned an ip here so let's come back to our ping here and you can now see we are able to the the router is now connected to the internet so once uh dhc we've configured dhcp client definitely we've now been assigned a gateway we've been assigned a dns and seems that all that is now working well so the router is now connected to the internet and we now want to say distribute this internet to clients if we have clients or we want this router to be able to feed other routers if we have others in a at home in different rooms so basically as this router is let's now close this we are also going to close this so basically what you now need to do you you come to interface and you're going to realize that you have five ports one two either one through to five and now we want to use either two three four and five to be able to give out internet to to our clients or something like that so what i generally do or i would recommend that you do is that we because as it is these uh these pods are very much independent so what we need to do is create a bridge and put all these parts inside that bridge so the next thing we'll do is come to bridge say add bridge we are going to call this maybe maybe this is going to be our last mile for our clients that's the name and apply okay so we've now created a bridge the next thing we now need to identify the parts that we want to be on that bridge so what you do is you come to ports then click add then we choose from the interface we choose ether2 the bridge is last mile apply we'd also want to do the same to ether three so copy this change the interface to ether three we will also apply that copy again change the interface to either form apply that make another copy oops it's thrown us out again let's reconnect yeah so we do the same to it five apply okay oh i see it of course been left out let's add it eta 4 apply okay and basically what you need to know is that when you when you create a bridge uh that bridge now works as a switch so the next thing that i would want us to do because now this bridge is now going to give people internet and as it is it also needs to be configured on its own so the next thing that we will do is uh we first of all now need to create a ip pool that clients will be able to pull from from that ip we will also need to not that iep so that it can be able to give the clients the end clients internet so what we'll do will come to ip pull then we add a new pool then maybe we are going to say this is our last mile pool and the addresses are going to be say 172 dot let's say 10 [Music] let's say 20 2 all through to 172 but 20.254 click apply and okay so these are the this is the range that the clients are going to be given so the next thing that we need to do is we need to not this ip so that it can be masqueraded and it can be able to appear behind the public ip which our isp is using has given us for our for it to provide the internet to us so what you need to do you need to come to ip firewall then click on not then add the action here is going to be masquerade then come to general this is sourcenut and our ip the ip that we want to not is 172 but 10 not 20 but 0 24 the entire the entire subnet for that so you click on apply and okay so now that we've added an ad for that ip for that range of ip so those ips when they're given out to clients clients will be able to reach the internet so what we now need to do is uh we need to set up a dhcp server so how the dhcp server will work is that anybody who click who plugs their router to port 2 3 4 and 5 this person will be issued an ip this person will be issued a gateway this person will be issued a dns and this person will now be able to access the internet so first of all what we need to do is uh we need to create a gateway for the bridge that we created we need to give it an ip and that iep is going to be the gateway actually so we need to come to ip addresses click add and maybe we can say maybe we can use 10 put 20 dots 30 dot 1 slash 24 and this is going to be the interface is going to be the last mile which is our bridge apply okay so that is going to act as the gateway for the clients who will be connected to our last mile bridge so we'll close that so now we want to set up the dhcp server so you come to iup then click on dhcp server so there are two ways of creating a dhcp server you can either do it manually by coming to networks and then click add there are those options or we can use the wizard that is provided here so all you need to do is come to dhcp then click on dhcp setup so the dhcp server interface is our last mile bridge click next uh the dhcp address space that seems okay the dhcp the gateway for dhcp yeah that's the correct gateway and then the address to be given out no no actually we let's change something here the dhcp address space because you remember there's a pool that we created so let's use that pool 172 172.10 [Music] but 20 was it 20 or 30 let's let me just confirm pull yeah 10.20 dot 20 0 slash 24. then we're going to say next this is definitely the dhcp network gateway click on next okay just okay let's start again last mile that's our interface that's our dhcp space dhcp network the address has to be given out there's something that will might need to change later on next this is going to be the dns server everything looks okay next list time is going to be that and now our dhcp has been set up successfully so if you come to the network here you're able now to see your addresses these are this is the address that's going to be used so let's not these uh this address as well we'll come to ib pool we are going to add another pool maybe we can say this is a dhcp [Music] and we can just copy this ctrl copy and you can paste it there the entire range then apply then okay let's close this let's not that ap as well [Music] firewall you can take this copy you need to change this apply okay so after that this router is now able to dish out dhcp [Music] ips and once they're given out you'll be able to see them from the list here so this is an this is a this is a this is an ip that has been given to me because i'm already connected to [Music] to the intel to to the router and i would want us to come to [Music] cmd so that you can do an iep config and see our ip [Music] just a minute as it tries to load that just a minute sorry for the delay here the command prompt is what we want yeah there it is open it's taking a bit of time so what we'll do we are going to do an config so that you can see our ips so as you can see this is the iep that we've now been given from from the microtic that we've just created so you can see it's from the range that we created and we can also ping here 8.8.8 and you can now see that we have internet so basically this is internet that has now been give been given and assigned to my laptop from the micro tick router that we've just created that we've just configured sorry and another thing that you realize with your microtech routers is that when you have an ip pull what microtic routers usually do they start assigning ips from the very end ip coming down so the next person will be assigned 10.20.30.253 and that's how micro tick does it you see we have a default gateway you remember we created a gateway for the last pile bridge and yeah so that's how you can be able to get your micro tick router started and these are just simple configurations to get you going so the next video we will talk about how to configure static ips we are also going to go through vlans and all that and just make sure to hit the notification bell so that you can be notified when any new video comes out be sure to subscribe leave a like share this video and uh i'm happy that you're here thank you and see you in the next video

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Length: 26min 50sec (1610 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 29 2021