Configuring Mikrotik Router

There are serveral ways to configure a mikrotik router:

• CLI
• Webinterface
• Dude
• Winbox
• ...

We are going to use winbox. This is a tool from mikrotik. It works on Layer 2 and on Layer 3. This is very usefull, because you don't need a IP address to communicate. You can use packets to communicate instead.

Process:

• Start winbox
• Connect PC and Router with an ethernet cable (use last port)
• Connect via Ethernet (login is admin, without passwort)
• Reset Configuration (System - Reset Configuration - Select No Default Configuration)
• Get IP address via a DHCP Server (running on port that connects your router to the PC):
• Address List - add Address

• IP Pool - new IP Pool - set name  
• IP-DHCP Server

 

• Standardgateway, Subnetmask and DNS still need to be configured.

• Activate the Routing Internet Protokoll (RIP)
• Routing - RIP

 

• Add all networks, connected to you

•  Lookup all the routes

•  Test the connectivity with a ping: Tools-Ping