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MikroTik Hyper-V وحدة التحكم التسلسلية واستخدام برنامج PuTTY للوصول للواجهة التسلسلية

أفعل الكثير من العمل مع أجهزة التوجيه MikroTik الظاهري( virtual MikroTik routers ) ، ومعظمها في Microsoft Hyper-V.

يعتبر CHR رائعًا لحلول labinging out وتطوير قوالب التكوين للعملاء. ولاكن لسوء الحظ ، فإن عمليات النسخ واللصق غير ممكنة حقًا من خلال وحدة التحكم Hyper-V المدمجة.

Winbox هو حل آخر ، ولكن الكثير مما أقوم به يحدث في سطر الأوامر النيوترمنال. الحل الافضل الذي أتيت به هو استخدام وظيفة الجهاز التسلسلي المضمنة مع pipes الاتصال المسماة لـ VMs.

و يوفر PuTTY واجهة تسلسلية مفيدة للوصول إلى الجهاز الظاهري.

سنقوم أولاً بإضافة جهاز تسلسلي إلى تكوين VM الخاص بـ CHR. ثم سنستخدمه لإنشاء named pipe. وأخيرًا ، سنستخدم PuTTY للوصول إلى وحدة التحكم التسلسلية.

تكوين CHR

إن إضافة منفذ تسلسلي إلى CHR يعطينا “hardware” التي نحتاجها ، حتى ولو كانت افتراضية. في Hyper-V انقر بزر الماوس الأيمن على CHR VM. ثم حدد الإعدادات و COM1 إلى اليسار. لاحظ كيف لم يتم تضمين أي جهاز افتراضيًا في التهيئة:

حدد خيار Named Pipe وأدخل اسمًا:

تذكر الاسم الكامل ، بادئًا بـ. \ pipe \ وتنتهي بالاسم المختار.

PuTTY المسلسل

يجب تشغيل PuTTY مع الامتيازات الإدارية ، وإلا لا يمكن الوصول إلى توجيه الإخراج named pipe في Windows. حدد الخيار Serial ، ثم استخدم سلسلة توجيه named pipe :

انقر فوق Open، ثم انقر داخل نافذة PuTTY واضغط على [Enter]. يجب أن يظهر موجه تسجيل الدخول إلى RouterOS.

إذا تم إعادة تشغيل جهاز الراوتر، فيمكننا إعادة تشغيل جلسة العمل التسلسلية سريعًا بالنقر بزر الماوس الأيمن فوق شريط العنوان:

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أنتهى … MikroTik Hyper-V وحدة التحكم التسلسلية واستخدام برنامج PuTTY للوصول للواجهة التسلسلية

MikroTik- Hyper-V وحدة التحكم التسلسلية واستخدام برنامج PuTTY للوصول للواجهة التسلسلية

الى هنا نكون وصلنا الى نهاية موضوعنا اليوم MikroTik Hyper-V وحدة التحكم التسلسلية واستخدام برنامج PuTTY للوصول للواجهة التسلسلية

والذي نتمنى ان ينال رضاكم واعجابكم والى اللقاء في موضوع جديد شيق ورائع وحتى ذلك الحين لاتنسو الاهتمام بصحتكم وحفظكم الله …

اذا اعجبك الموضوع.MikroTik Hyper-V وحدة التحكم التسلسلية واستخدام برنامج PuTTY للوصول للواجهة التسلسلية لاتنسى ان تقوم بمشاركتة على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي ليستفيذ منه الغير,

كما نتمنى اشتراككم في قناة الموقع على اليوتيوب بالضغط هنا وكذلك الاشتراك في مجموعة الفيس بوك بالضغط هنا والتيليقرام بالضغط هنا وكذلك التسجيل بالموقع لتتمكنو من تحميل بعض الملفات الخاصة بالأعضاء

كما يمكنكم رفع ملفاتكم مجانا على مركز ملفات حضرموت التقنية بالضغط هنا ولاتترددو في وضع أي استفسارات للرد عليكم.

دمتم بكل ود والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاتة … حضرموت التقنية

Overview

Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a RouterOS version intended for running as a virtual machine. It supports the x86 64-bit architecture and can be used on most of the popular hypervisors such as VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM and others. CHR has full RouterOS features enabled by default but has a different licensing model than other RouterOS versions.

MikroTik RouterOS CHR is a Linux kernel-based operating system that turns a computer into a network router. It possesses the following features:

  • The-Dude Monitoring, Notification, and Syslog server
  • Radius Server, Usermanager
  • Cloud-based CAPsMAN, Wireless Controller Access Point Manager
  • Firewall.
  • Virtual private network (VPN) server and client.
  • Bandwidth shaping.
  • Quality of Service (QoS).
  • Portal-based hotspot.
  • Access Router, Management and Auditing
  • Remote employee
  • Centralized network

Configuration Step-by-Step

Create an account in Vultr

  • Check your mailbox and confirm your email address to activate your account.
  • Complete your profile, enter your CC information and fill up your billing address.
  • From the left side menu bar click on the product button.
  • Find a location where you want to host your service
  • For the-dude monitoring and notification service, it’s recommended to create more than one instance in different locations to monitor your customer’s services more efficiently.
  • For Usermanager/Radius-server it is recommended to host the RouterOS in a location with the shortest route path to your colocation.
  • For VPN service depends on the number of your customers and distribution it is recommended to have multiple instances close to each group of the customer to reduce latency and security risk.
  • For Cloud-based CAPsMAN the shortest route-path is the best. Redundancy is always important, make sure to create more than one instance for your CAPsMAN
  • Hotspot controller is one of the most popular RouterOS services. Depending on the number of Routers and simultaneously registered customer you need to choose enough resources for your instance. A redundant instance is recommended.
  • We are going to use Vultr to install MikroTik RouterOS to use the-dude monitoring and notification package used to monitor our core and business customers.
  • MikroTik RouterOS are available for x.86 CPU architecture in.iso format and Cloud–Hosted-Router in VHDX/VMDK/VDI/OVA/RAW formats. To install MikroTik RouterOS on Vultr instance we could use the RouterOS for x.86 architecture. So, the server-type we should choose to create our instance should be from ISO Library.
  • For the-dude, we don’t need anything more than 25GB SSD. You could always upgrade your service if required.
  • It is important to backup your server, and IPv6 is a good option if you are using IPv6 in your network infrastructure.

The server is ready, a public IPv4 address has been assigned to your instance and it’s ready to go to the RouterOS installation process.

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Install RouterOS

To install MikroTik RouterOS in the below URL, scroll down on the “Cloud Hosted Router” section and find “Raw disk image” for either long-term or the stable version. Right-click and copy the download URL.

  • Open a text editor and paste the URL for safekeeping.
  • Click on View Console under the three-dots and press enter to Boot SystemRescuedCd using default options
  • Use the wget command to retrieve the URL link you pasted in your text editor by typing it inside of the View Console window.

wget https://download2.mikrotik.com/routeros/x.xx.x/chr-x.xx.x.img.zip

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dd if=chr-x.xx.x.img.img of=/dev/vda

  • Under the Settings, Custom ISO section of your server instance, click the Remove ISO option. Your server will be rebooted.

MikroTik is found both RouterBoard where RouterOS and License are prebuilt and RouterOS Application that can be installed on a Physical Machine or Virtual Machine. RouterOS installation on Physical or Virtual Machine has license limitations. Full RouterOS packages cannot be used more than 24 hours without license. So, RouterOS application is not suitable for the Trainee or not suitable to RND purpose. From RouterOS v6.34, MikroTik introduces Cloud Hosted Router (CHR, a new RouterOS version) which has different licensing scheme. MikroTik CHR has full RouterOS packages and can be used free with bandwidth limitation. So, MikroTik CHR is so helpful to trainee and RND user. In this article, I will discuss how to install MikroTik Cloud Hosted Router on VMware Workstation properly with step by step guide.

MikroTik Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) and License

MikroTik CHR is a RouterOS version aimed for running as a virtual machine. It supports both x86 and 64-bit architecture and can be used on most of the popular hypervisors such as VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM and others. MikroTik CHR has full RouterOS features enabled by default but has a different licensing model based on upload bandwidth than other RouterOS versions.

MikroTik CHR has currently the following 4 levels licensing scheme.

Creating a MikroTik account, any paid license level can be used for 60 days (60 days trial license). Within 60 days period, you must purchase any license level otherwise MikroTik CHR cannot be used more. You have to do a complete fresh CHR installation.

Installing MikroTik CHR on VMware Workstation

MikroTik CHR can easily be installed on VMware Workstation but you must know the proper installation procedure. MikroTik CHR installation on VMware Workstation can be divided into the following steps.

  • Downloading MikroTik CHR disk image (vmdk)
  • Downloading and Installing VMware Workstation
  • Customizing VMware Networking
  • Creating new virtual machine for MikroTik CHR
  • Accessing Virtual MikroTik Router from Winbox

Step 1: Downloading MikroTik CHR Disk Image

MikroTik introduces Cloud Hosted Router from RouterOS v6.34. So, visiting MikroTik download page, you can easily download MikroTik CHR. We need VMDK image file for VMware Workstation. So, visit MikroTik Download Page and download VMDK image file from current stable RouterOS release. The current stable RouterOS version is 6.45.5 (At the time of publishing this article). So, I am using VMDK image chr-6.45.5.vmdk for this article.

Step 2: Downloading and Installing VMware Workstation

VMware Workstation is a type 2 hypervisor. So, it should be run on a Host Operating System. VMware Workstation can be installed on both Windows and Linux Operating System and can be downloaded from VMware download page but you must have a VMware account. If you don’t have a VMware account, create an account in VMware and login your account and then download VMware Workstation for your Operating System from VMware download page. Alternatively, you can download VMware Workstation from any software sharing site. In this article, I am using VMware Workstation 15.0.0 on Windows Operating System.

VMware Workstation installation on Windows Operating System is so easy. Like other software application it will just ask to follow some graphical instructions. Complete VMware installation and run it. VMware Workstation may ask for license at first running. You can find license by searching on Google or can use workstation for 30 days trial. The home page of VMware Workstation 15.0.0 looks like the following image.

Step 3: Customizing VMware Networking

Why? Because if you have multiple network cards/adapters, you can create multiple virtual switches whose uplink will be physical network adapter. In VMware Workstation 15.0.0, you can create maximum 20 virtual switches.

I have installed VMware Workstation in my laptop which has two network cards (WLAN and LAN). If I create two virtual switches whose uplink will be two physical network interfaces, I will be able to create two virtual network adapters for MikroTik CHR virtual machine where one network adapter will be connected to one virtual switch and another network adapter will be connected to another virtual switch. So, my virtual router will have two network interfaces and one can be used as WAN connection and another can be used as LAN connection.

The following steps will show how to create two virtual switches those will be connected with two physical network adapters.

  • Go to Edit menu and click on Virtual Network Editor… option. Virtual Network Editor window will appear where current virtual switches/networks are listed. You may find all options are dimmed if you don’t have admin privilege. If so, click on Change Settings button at the bottom and then you will find all options are active.
  • For simplicity, delete all virtual switches without VMnet0 and VMnet1 (Select any virtual switch and click Remove Network button). If you don’t have VMnet0 or VMnet1, click on Add Network… Add a Virtual Network window will appear. Choose VMnet0 or VMnet1 which one you want to create from Select a network to add dropdown menu and click OK button. You will find that your created virtual switch/network will be listed now.
  • Click on VMnet0 virtual switch and click on Bridged radio button from VMnet Information panel and then choose your physical network adapter (I am choosing WLAN adapter for this article) that you want to make uplink for this virtual switch, form Bridged to dropdown menu.
  • Similarly, click on VMnet1 virtual switch and click on Bridged radio button and then choose your physical network adapter (I am choosing LAN adapter for this article) that you want to make uplink for this virtual switch, from Bridged to dropdown menu.
  • Now click Apply and OK button.

Virtual switch creation for physical network adapters has been completed where one switch will be used as WAN connection and another will be used as LAN connection. If you have more physical network adapter, you can create more virtual switch in VMware Workstation.

Step 4: Creating Virtual Machine for MikroTik CHR

We will now create virtual machine that will be used as virtual router in VMware Workstation. The following steps will show how to create new virtual machine for MikroTik CHR.

Step 5: Accessing MikroTik Virtual Router (CHR) from Winbox

We have successfully installed MikroTik CHR on VMware Workstation. We will now access MikroTik Virtual Router from Winbox so that we can easily configure our MikroTik Router. To connect MikroTik Virtual Router from Winbox, first download Winbox from MikroTik website. Connect your physical network adapters to physical switch and power on the physical switches. Now open Winbox from any PC connected with these physical switches or from your Desktop or Laptop where VMware Workstation is installed and click on auto detect button. If everything is OK, you will find your CHR router’s MAC address. Click on MAC address and put username admin and keep password blank and then click Connect button. You will now find your Cloud Hosted Router in Winbox.

Note: Use MikroTik CHR on VMware Workstation only for RND purpose. If you wish to use MikroTik CHR for production, I will suggest using ESXi Hypervisor which is a bar metal hypervisor that sits directly on physical hardware layer and manage virtual machine. On the other hand, VMware Workstation hypervisor sits on a Host Operating System (Windows or Linux) and completely depend on that Host Operating System. For this, VMware Workstation is not suitable always for production use.

If you face any confusion to install MikroTik Cloud Hosted Router on VMware Workstation, watch the following video on MikroTik CHR installation on VMware Workstation. I hope it will reduce your any confusion.

How to install MikroTik CHR on VMware Workstation has been discussed in this article. I hope you will now be able to install MikroTik CHR on VMware Workstation and can do your RND. However, if you face any confusion to install MikroTik Cloud Hosted Router on VMware Workstation, feel free to discuss in comment or contact with me from Contact page. I will try my best to stay with you.

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Introduction of Mikrotik Router OS (2023)

The MikroTik virtual server is a server that runs the MikroTik operating system (MikroTik Routers) and is one of the most widely used services; This server has the key software features of MikroTik Router BOARDS; It is necessary to pay attention to this point: the Mikrotik server is intended for professional users, and as a router, which is much more affordable than other similar hardware, that is why most network administrators buy Mikrotik’s virtual servers also save money and take an important step towards improving the Power and performance of their network.

Mikrotik operating system can be examined in terms of virtual server, network router, and other things, which has various and extensive features for IP networks and wireless networks. We will explain in a simple and precise way…

This article will be dedicated to the introduction, description of applications, and installation of the Mikrotik operating system;

What is the Mikrotik operating system?

Mikrotik operating system is designed as a network router; It can be installed on a personal computer through virtualizers; it is interesting to know that Mikrotik has various and extensive features for IP networks and wireless networks.

Also, Mikrotik is known as a company that produces network equipment (hardware and software) based on its operating system for routers called RouterOS; The company was founded in 1996 in Latvia (located in Eastern Europe) with a FOCUS on selling equipment in emerging markets. The reason for using the Mikrotik operating system!

Mikrotik provides the idea of SWOS for network switches and many features in advanced network devices, including routing, firewall and NAT, bandwidth management, wireless access point, backhaul link, hotspot gateway, VPN servers, DNS servers, DHCP servers, and more. Another one, with a very low price, quickly attracted the attention of enthusiasts, managed service providers, and the Internet.

Mikrotik OS has a powerful yet easy-to-learn command-line configuration interface with integrated programming capabilities.

Mikrotik tools include Telnet, SSH, bandwidth test, ping, traceroute, active connection tables, dynamic DNS update, NTP client and server, TFTP server, support for VRRP redundancy, SNMP to provide graphs and statistics and other features necessary for network management. has taken.

MikroTik RouterOS is an independent Linux-based operating system that powers the MikroTik RouterBOARD hardware; It can run on any standard computer in a virtualizer or virtual server and become a complete router.

It should be noted that Winbox software (graphical interface) is also used to use this operating system.

Router OS has features such as VPN, firewall, QOS, Hotspot, and Wireless, which we will examine comprehensively and briefly in the following article in Mikrotik’s application section; Also, the source code of the Mikrotik operating system is only available with a license and is not available as open source software in any way.

RouterOS also supports virtual routing and forwarding (VRF), policy-based routing, and ECMP routing; For this purpose, you can use a firewall filter to mark certain connections with routing marks and then use the marked traffic from a different ISP.

Virtual Routing and Forwarding technology are independent routing examples, through which the same or overlapping IP addresses can be used without interfering with each other. This technology allows the activity and presence of several examples of a routing table simultaneously in It gives a router, also VRF increases the security of the network; It is often used in, but not limited to, MPLS networks.

The history and performance of Mikrotik over the years

In 2002, Mikrotik started to produce new equipment for Mikrotik operating system hardware with the aim of increasing stability in its normal hardware. This move shows the company’s lack of trust in the majority of PCs because most PCs are not made for professional network settings. and users were not able to use large and unstable PCs in terms of security in huge networks, which is why Mikrotik decided to produce hardware called Routerboard.

These hardware products were miniaturized versions of personal computers for use in a network environment with high security; At that time, Mikrotik made significant progress in the field of hardware with the development of its operating system.

Considering that hardware resources such as CPU, RAM, licenses and network ports are different in hardware, for this reason, Mikrotik is constantly trying to keep up with the latest technology and concepts in both software and hardware.

Advantages of Mikrotik operating system

  • Tunnel installation
  • Routing and support for all types of protocols
  • Create a VPN
  • Layer 3 and 7 firewall
  • Ability to control bandwidth
  • Ability to use Hotspot
  • Network monitoring facilities
  • Ability to use Wireless
  • The ability to launch and use different packages such as user management
  • The possibility of direct management of Mikrotik through the graphic interface and SS

Important applications of Mikrotik operating system

In this topic of the article, we mention the practical and main cases of using the Mikrotik operating system; Mikrotik also has several different side applications. You can also check the general and comprehensive Wikipedia article on Mikrotik to get more information.

Routing

Routing, or routing between routers, is done through the creation of static routes, for this purpose, we perform routing with the help of OSPF protocol through Dynamic routing protocols; As a result, you can find out how much easier, faster and more accurate routing is.

It should be noted that Mikrotik covers VRF, ECMP and interface-based routing and it is also interesting to know that Mikrotik routing supports the following:

From RIP version 1 to 2, OSPF version 2 and BGP version 4 for IPv4 of RIPng, OSPFv3 and BGP for IPv6

By adding MPLS support to RouterOS, VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) technology was introduced, which increases network security and is often used in MPLS networks; It also provides the possibility of using several examples of the routing table simultaneously in a router; Since the routing instances are independent, the same IP addresses can be used without interfering with each other.

Firewall

In simple terms, Mikrotik firewall is also used as a stateful filtering technology, which means to detect and block many stealth scans, DoS, SYN attacks, Mikrotik firewall is also stateful; That is, it examines and tracks the status of network connections and supports source and destination NAT, NAT helpers for popular applications, UPnP, and supports IPv6. In fact, MikroTik firewall as IP address filtering, port protocol filtering. network interface filtering, MAC source address filtering and TCP protocol options are used.

DHCP

Among the popular services of the Mikrotik operating system, we can mention its DHCP server; Through DHCP you can give a dedicated IP to computers or any system in a particular network that supports DHCP, usually DHCP services are used through Microsoft servers in networks, however You can also use DHCP server in small networks by Mikrotik operating system.

Packet Mangle

Mangle feature in Mikrotik is one of the sub-branches of Firewall section; It is used for the purpose of marking certain packets and using this marking in the operations of other routers. In fact, in simpler terms, it can be said: the main use of Mangle is for routing and controlling bandwidth. or (queue) will be.

The main application of the QOS tool will be in controlling network bandwidth and network quality; Suppose several people use the same network in the same environment, and at the same time, two people consume a lot of bandwidth; This issue causes the rest of the people in the environment to have low internet quality; With the QOS tool, you can manage network bandwidth and assign a specific amount of bandwidth to each member of the company or people present in a specific environment.

By using this feature, people can all have the same internet speed quality

Load Balancing

Normally, the load balancer can help you stabilize the network or use the services of two Internet service networks at the same time; As you know, normally, if you intend to connect two DHCP servers from different internet networks to one switch, you will definitely lose your connection to the Internet or face serious problems in the network.

If you want to use the services of both different networks that you purchased at the same time, then the load balancer can help you; Even suppose that when the Internet service of the first network is disrupted, the load balancer prevents your Internet connection from being interrupted by connecting the Internet service of the second Internet service to your modem or network, and within a few seconds the Internet will be connected without interruption.

Traffic Shaping

If you want to dynamically apply download and upload bandwidth limits for users using Queue, while connecting to Mikrotik using PPPOE or PPTP; In a simpler explanation: if you want a queue to be created automatically for each user, you can use the Traffic Shaping service in the Mikrotik operating system.

Gateway Settings

Gateway address means the address that if your computer is not able to route the destination of the package, it uses the Gateway for this purpose; In other words, it will send any package that cannot identify its destination to the Gateway address, even when you want to have Internet on the router and the users connected to the router also have Internet, you must put the Gateway address on the router interface in the clients and on the router Also define a Gateway for this purpose. MPLS capability in Mikrotik

MPLS stands for MultiProtocol Label Switching, which can be used to replace IP egress, which is used to ensure secure connectivity and fast application execution; The MPLS protocol works as a technique; Not a service.

It is a highly scalable, agnostic protocol and data transfer mechanism; Labels are assigned to data packets in the MPLS network. Package forwarding decisions are made solely based on the contents of this label without the need to examine the package itself; This practice allows to create global circuits in any type of transport media using any protocol.

One of the most prominent advantages of this protocol is the efficiency of the transmission process, which creates “virtual links” between network nodes; It makes it easy to encapsulate data regardless of the protocol.

Dude network monitor

Dude Network Monitor is a new program by MikroTik that plays an important role in improving network management. This monitor is responsible for automatic scanning of all devices in the network and the layout of your network map, and also monitors the services of your devices and warns you in case of problems in some services.

Its features are as follows:

  • Automatic network discovery and layout
  • Discover any type of device
  • Device, link monitoring and notifications
  • Includes SVG icons for devices and supports custom icons and backgrounds
  • Easy to install and use
  • Allows you to draw your own maps and add custom devices.
  • Support for SNMP, ICMP, DNS and TCP monitoring for devices that support it.
  • Direct access to remote control tools for device management
  • Supports remote Dude server and local client.
  • It runs on Linux Wine, MacOS Darwine and Windows.

Mikrotik OS VPN

The Mikrotik operating system supports various VPN methods and tunnel protocols to establish secure connections over Internet networks or to connect remote locations with encrypted links:

  • VLAN, support 1q virtual network, support Q-in-Q
  • MPLS based VPNs
  • Simple tunnels (IPIP, EoIP)
  • Point-to-point tunneling (OpenVPN, PPTP, PPPoE, L2TP)
  • Features of PPP (MLPPP, BCP)
  • 6to4 tunnel support (IPv6 over IPv4 network)
  • Ipsec tunnel and transmission mode, security protocol PSK, AH and ESP s

Wireless in Mikrotik operating system

RouterOS will be useful for you in any situation, from a home hotspot network to a wide city network, because it supports various types of wireless technology. Also, RouterOS also has a dedicated NStreme wireless protocol that improves connection speed and increases The domain helps in Mikrotik routers and with NStem dual support; It provides the possibility of using two antennas (one for receiving and one for sending) at each end.

Among the advantages of Wireless in the Mikrotik operating system:

  • 11a/b/g/n wireless client and access point
  • RTS/CTS
  • Nstreme and Nstreme2 protocols
  • Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
  • Virtual AP
  • Access control list
  • WMM
  • WEP, WPA, WPA2 encryption
  • Wireless MME routing protocol
  • Ability to use HWMP Wireless MESH protocol

Web Proxy in Mikrotik operating system

Mikrotik’s operating system has Mikrotik’s customized proxy server to increase the speed of using the browser and save web resources by providing copies of cached files at the speed of the local network. Features that the Mikrotik proxy server implements:

  • Transparent Proxy or transparent proxy
  • HTTP
  • Ability to access and adjust cache
  • Ability to access based on URL and request method (HTTP firewall) and source
  • Ability to cache on external drives
  • Login facility
  • Proxy SOCKS support

Hotspot on Mikrotik operating system

MikroTik HotSpot Gateway provides the basis for establishing any wireless or wired connection request to the public network for users without the need to install software or configure the network. Also, MikroTik operating system hotspot supports authentication against standard RADIUS servers and MikroTik user manager with the aim of centralized management of all users in your networks.

The meaning of comprehensive management in Mikrotik hotspot; upload speed limits; Upload and download time and transfer amount.

Features that Mikrotik operating system hotspot offers; As follows:

  • Plug-n-Play access to the network
  • Ability to authenticate local network users
  • User accounting
  • RADIUS support for authentication
  • Trial user and advertising modes

Mikrotik operating system configuration

Mikrotik supports a variety of configuration methods including:

  • Local access with keyboard and monitor
  • Serial console with terminal program
  • Secure Telnet and SSH access over the network
  • Ability to use Winbox’s customized graphical interface
  • A simple web-based configuration interface and a scripting API for building
  • Lua programming language support in RouterOS v4 version with new features in programming and automation
  • Support for MAC based connection with Mac-Telnet and Winbox tools

Mikrotik operating system installation

It is better to pay attention to this point, due to the fact that Mikrotik is one of the Linux core services, installing the Mikrotik operating system in a virtual server is not considered a correct term, and normally you can consider installing the Mikrotic operating system in the virtualizer. ; It is recommended in the introduction section that Mikrotik is a type of Linux virtual server

In the following, we will install the Mikrotik operating system step by step on VMWare Workstation; Also, in the following, the virtualizers that you can use to install Mikrotik are also mentioned;

Mikrotik is usually installed by the following virtualizers:

Prerequisites for installing Mikrotik

  • 128 MB of RAM
  • 1 GB of memory
  • a processor core (CPU)
  • CentOS 7/8 32-bit Linux operating system

The first step is to create a virtual machine

Go to the File section and select the New Virtual Machine… option.

Then on the new page to change the virtual machine specifications from two options:

typical (recommended) custom (advanced)

Click on the Custom option and click on the Next option to go to the next step.

In the next step, you should select the desired device from which you will install the operating system.

Choose the first option if the operating system is on DVD. Choosing the second option is done when the operating system is in the form of an iOS file.

In the next step, you will choose the type and version of the operating system that you intend to install on this machine; Since the Mikrotik operating system is considered a type of Linux operating system, then select the Linux option.

In this step, in the Virtual machine name section, you specify a name for the virtual machine and in the location section, you specify the installation path of the files.

This step is intended to determine the RAM and processor capacity assigned to the virtual machine, which you determine on the processor configuration page.

On the page titled memory for the virtual machine, you specify the required amount of RAM and memory and go through the process by clicking on the Next option.

In the next step, to select the type of network card; Among the four options:

  • Use bridged networking
  • Use networking address translation (NAT)
  • Use host-only networking
  • Do not use a network connection

To directly access Router OS through our own main operating system; Select the third option Host Only.

In the next step, select the same default settings as the LSI Logic option to specify the type of machine controller.

The next step is Select a Disk to select a virtual disk; If we are going to create a new disk on the system; We choose the first option if we decide to use virtual disk files already created; We must choose the second option.

In the Select a Disk Type virtual disk type step, select the IDE option to install the Mikrotik operating system.

It should be noted that IDE is the right choice for old versions of Mikrotik OS due to the disruption and problem of sata hardware, which has been resolved in new versions of Mikrotik.

The next step is to determine the capacity of the virtual disk. In the Allocate all Disk Space section, by selecting the split virtual disk into multiple files option, we separate and reserve space for Mikrotik operating system installation files on the main operating system.

In the next steps, you specify a name for the Mikrotik operating system installation file and complete the installation steps.

You can also click on Power on this virtual settings option to see Mikrotik operating system installation steps.

The second step is to install Mikrotik OS on VMWare

To install the Mikrotik operating system on the system, you will come across this page.

  • By pressing the A key, you select all Mikrotik packages.
  • The I key is used to install certain Mikrotik Package items.
  • Space key is used to select an item from Package.
  • from the y key to answer positively to the question that was asked about saving the previous settings; use.
  • Also, use the y key to confirm the message that all data on the disk has been deleted and continue the installation process.
  • After completing the installation process of the required packages, restart the system.
  • After loading the Mikrotik operating system, you can use the Mikrotik operating system by entering the username login: admin without entering the password.

Mikrotik management tools

After the successful installation of RouterOS software (if needed), it is time to access the router; There are several ways to connect to it:

  • Command Line Interface (CLI) via Telnet, ssh, serial cable (even keyboard and monitor if the router has a VGA card.)
  • Web interface (WebFig)
  • WinBox configuration tool
  • Using mobile tools (TikApp)

Usually you connect to the router by IP addresses with any telnet software or SSH client (a simple text-mode client is usually called telnet and is distributed with almost every operating system).

If an IP or MAC connection is not available, some devices allow connection via a serial port (either DB9 or RJ45 depending on the model).

Note: Note that the default VMware hard disk is of SCSI type, which is not recognized by RouterOS; You need to remove the default hard drive and add an IDE hard drive.

Note: You can also use the VHDX configuration that Mikrotik uses for the Hyper-V virtualizer, But considering VMware’s more features than other virtualizers and better stability with Mikrotik, our recommended virtualizer will be VMware WorkStation

Soon, this article will be updated with a complete tutorial on installing Mikrotik in VMware virtualizer.