rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, MikroTik Router BGP Peering with Team Cymru for BOGONS 1 week, 6 days ago
Team Cymru is a security and analytics company that provides several valuable services to the IT industry. They also provide a free BGP peering service called the BOGON Route Server Project to receive an up to […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, DNS Filtering using MikroTik, Pi-hole, and OpenDNS 2 weeks, 5 days ago
DNS filtering is an important part of a well planned firewall. Not only does DNS filtering help protect users from accessing dangerous or unwanted domains, but it can significantly reduce the amount of unwanted […]
rickfrey1000 commented on the post, MikroTik DNS Attack Prevention Rev 3.0 3 weeks, 2 days ago
It should be, but I haven’t tested it with older versions.
rickfrey1000 commented on the post, Basic VLANs with SwitchOS 3 months, 1 week ago
Glad to hear it and thanks!
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, MikroTik Ethernet Error Detection 1 year, 3 months ago
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rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, MikroTik Ethernet Error Detection 1 year, 3 months ago
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rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, MikroTik Bad Block Detection 1 year, 3 months ago
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rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, ISP Gross Revenue Chart 1 year, 7 months ago
Here is a chart showing how much money each customer is worth over time based on the national average of $50 per Internet subscriber. Take note on how much a single customer is worth after 5 years or how ma […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, WLAN Scanner 1 year, 10 months ago
The WLAN Scanner is probably the most well recognized wireless tool for any product. Almost all wireless products have a tool which is similar, although the implementation in RouterOS is a little more advanced […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, Profiler 1 year, 10 months ago
RouterOS includes a tool to show CPU usage that is similar to CPU information displayed by Window’s Task Manager. The processes can be viewed here, but they have to stopped under their normal settings. For […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, Packet Sniffer 1 year, 10 months ago
Packet Captures are one of the best and primary troubleshooting tools in networking. RouterOS includes three different ways ( 4 if you include CALEA) that you can capture packets. There is the Packet Sniffer tool […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, Netwatch 1 year, 10 months ago
RouterOS includes an extremely useful tool call Netwatch to help automate tasks. Netwatch Pings a defined hosts and then takes a scripted action when the host is reachable and/ or not reachable. There are many […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, MAC Server & MAC Ping 2 years, 3 months ago
RouterOS has included a tool to allow Layer 2 logins for well over a decade now. Its an absolutely invaluable set of tools that allows a Layer 2 connection from a PC to the router via Winbox or a Layer 2 co […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, Graphing 2 years, 4 months ago
RouterOS includes the ability to graph utilization of interfaces, queues, and resources such as CPU and memory. These are standard SNMP graphs and the router will store up to 1 year’s worth of information. Af […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, Email 2 years, 4 months ago
The Email Tool allows you to configure the router to send emails. Although, the tool itself does have a compose email option, the tool is usually referenced by other tools/ processes in the router to alert th […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, Ping Speed 2 years, 4 months ago
Ping Speed is a tool used to approximate the throughput of a link using ICMP Echo Request and Reply messages. Two different packet sizes are used. The small packet is sent first and then a large packet. It co […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, IP Scan 2 years, 4 months ago
IP Scan is a tool used to collect IP addresses, MAC addresses, DNS names, SNMP host names, and Netbios information on a network. This tool is extremely useful for inventory of currently connected devices or […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, Flood Ping Tool 2 years, 4 months ago
The “Flood” option for ping has been a mainstay in networking for more than 2 decades. RouterOS packages this ICMP option into a clean and simple tool to use for testing networks. The Flood Ping tool al […]
rickfrey1000 wrote a new post, Btest Server & Bandwidth Test Tools 2 years, 4 months ago
RouterOS provides the BTest Server (Bandwidth Test Server) and the Bandwidth Test tool for preforming a variety of network tests. The server works in combination with the Bandwidth Test tool in RouterOS or in […]
rickfrey1000 commented on the post, MikroTik VPN Comparison 2 years, 8 months ago
The reason for that is that IPSEC is able to utilize an encryption co-possessor on the router. Not all routers have that feature. If these had not, their throughput would have been much worse.
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