About Me

MTIN is a full service consulting firm with over 15 years of experience. We specialize in ISP networks.  Other clients include enterprise, education, government, and SOHO.  We have Mikrotik, Cisco, and other certified engineers on staff. Our corporate page can be found at http://www.mtin.net

 

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Simple OSPF with Mikrotik RouterOS Part1-Setup

The goal of this exercise is to show how to setup OSPF between two routerboards to enable communication between two separate IP networks. In this case we want the 2 PC’s, which are on separate DHCP networks to be able to communicate with each other via dynamic routing.

Our lab setup consists of the following hardware:
-2 RouterBoard [...]

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RouterOS OSPF tip

One of the simplest thing someone can do when troubleshooting OSPF on a Mikrotik is to make sure all the routers participating in OSPF have the same version (ie. 3.30).  Many problems will go away by simply all having the same [...]

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Mikrotik Router OS 4.3 released

Main fixes would benefit anyone running BGP or OSPF on router OS.

Get the torrent [...]

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Types of OSPF routers

Backbone Router-Only connected to OSPF backbone area

Area Border Router (ABR) – Jas interfaces connected to multiple areas

Internal router – Interfaces connected within a single area

Autonomous System Boundary router (ASBR) – Connects [...]

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Cisco Tip - Define a stub area

AREA area-ID STUB

area-id can be decimal value or an [...]

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