I hold a Master's degree in Cybersecurity with a concentration in Digital Forensics from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor degree in Information Technology from the University of Belize. C heck out the default configurations Minim provides for MikroTik router security.Hello, and welcome! I'm Alberto - a Cyber Security & Digital Forensics professional specializing in Digital forensics, Incident Response & Vulnerability Assessment. Minim is a Made for MikroTik software partner and provides tools for easily configuring these routers. You'll want to ensure you have NAT enabled so that your LAN is masked by your ISP, which you can learn more about in the MikroTik Wiki.ĭon't miss the next "How to configure MikroTik router" article! Subscribe to our newsletter below. As a default, your router will list only the address of your Local Area Network (LAN), but you can add a new static IP address in the Addresses configuration setting of your router.Īnother internet access configuration you'll want to check and, if needed, make changes to is your router's Network Address Translation (NAT) settings. Static IP: The MikroTik router gets a static IP address on the WAN side.You can do so by accessing the DHCP Client settings of your router, found under IP. This is the default MikroTik router configuration, and has to be removed if not supported by your ISP. DHCP Client: The MikroTik router gets an IP address on the WAN side from a DHCP server in front of it.MikroTik routers provide different configuration options for connecting to the internet: It is advised that you disable this user and create your own user(s) with assignments to the appropriate groups, depending on how your network is set up. As a default, you will see there is one user setup- "admin"- that has full access control. The users setting option lets you configure who on your network has access to the MikroTik router. As a reminder, this should be done for any router you connect in your home– regardless of whether a password is or isn't already set! User settings
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