Networking

Basic networking configurations, simple hardening and best security practices done on affordable hardware suitable for SOHO.

Hardening mikrotik and network infrastructure

Hardening mikrotik and network infrastructure

In this long blog I try to sum-up some features which you should disable before running MikroTik in any environment. First of all is an backup interface, so in case you lock yourself up, you will always have a way to login. Other points include creating custom user, disabling unused services in various places throughout the RouterOS ;). [...] Read more

Posted on 21 June 2025 by Mino 3 min

Script for UPS connected to MikroTik

Script for UPS connected to MikroTik

Recently I discovered a package in RouterOS, which enables you to monitor connected UPS through USB cable. In this post I explain a simple script which sends an email if the electricity goes down. [...] Read more

Posted on 08 June 2025 by Mino 2 min

Networking saga Part 1 - Interfaces

Networking saga Part 1 - Interfaces

Simple Ethernet, VLAN, bonding and WiFi configuration with some notes on security. Please use the following decision table to decide which sections of this post to read. [...] Read more

Posted on 22 May 2025 by Mino 6 min

Certificate Authority in SOHO

Certificate Authority in SOHO

What ? This post focuses on HTTP/+s certificate creation with local certificate authority using MikroTik device and software which had to have additional configuration modified in order to accept the [...] Read more

Posted on 14 May 2025 by Mino 4 min