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The Dude network monitor is a new application by MikroTik which can dramatically improve the way you manage your network environment

Mikrotik RouterOS is the operating system of RouterBOARD.

It can also be installed on a PC and will turn it into a router with all the necessary features - routing, firewall, bandwidth management, wireless access point, backhaul link, hotspot gateway, VPN server and more.

Wireless Setups

Wireless Access Point


MikroTik router with Prism or Atheros wireless card can be configured to be Wireless Access Point. Use the Mikrotik Wireless Access Point to achieve best wireless Base stations

Possible setups are:

IEEE 802.11b 2.4GHz 11Mbps AP (Prism II Interface)
IEEE 802.11a/b 5GHz 54Mbps and 2.4GHx 11Mbps Mult-Band AP (Atheros Interface)
Bridging or routing between the wireless and cable interfaces
Bandwidth limitation, firewall, HotSpot Gateway, and other MikroTik RouterOS features

Router and Network Administration
Remote Router Administration
MikroTik RouterOS supports remote access via Telnet and GUI. Files and software packages can be uploaded/downloaded using ftp. The WinBox GUI allows easy real-time router management and monitoring.

Telnet, ftp
MAC telnet lets you connect from router to router without need to use TCP/IP layer
SSH for secure shell connection to and from router
Router Upgrading using ftp to transfer software packages to the router




Network Administration
Mikrotik RouterOS provides vide variety of network administration and monitoring tools. It allows you to easily find out bottlenecks in your system, track down users clogging up your bandwidth, detects intrusion attempts, etc. Following tools by provided with MikroTik RouterOS:

Ping, traceroute are standart and most commonly used tools
Bandwidth Tester lets you determine the actual throughput between two MikroTik Routers or your Windows computer and MikroTik Router
Torch is brand new tool introduced by MikroTik to monitor in real-time connections going through the router
Sniffer catches all the data travelling over the network


Chinedu K. Duruh
Systems/Network Engineer (Certified Mikrotik Consultant)

CadLin Technologies Limited
30, Olakunle Selesi Crescent, Ajao Estate.
International Airport Road. Lagos
Mobile: 07040930820
Email: chineduruh@cadlin.com
www.cadlin.com

Bandwidth Management
Queuing / Bandwidth Management


MikroTik RouterOS supports Class Based Queuing (CBQ) for bandwidth limitation. It is possible to limit just one IP or MAC address, or whole subnet. Queuing can be performed based on:


Source/destination address
Protocol, port
Many other parameters

Chinedu K. Duruh
Systems/Network Engineer

CadLin Technologies Limited
30, Olakunle Selesi Crescent, Ajao Estate.
International Airport Road. Lagos
Mobile: 07040930820
Email: chineduruh@cadlin.com
www.cadlin.com

RouterOS is the operating system of RouterBOARD.

It can also be installed on a PC and will turn it into a router with all the necessary features - routing, firewall, bandwidth management, wireless access point, backhaul link, hotspot gateway, VPN server and more.


Chinedu K. Duruh
Systems/Network Engineer

CadLin Technologies Limited
30, Olakunle Selesi Crescent, Ajao Estate.
International Airport Road. Lagos
Mobile: 07040930820
Email: chineduruh@cadlin.com
www.cadlin.com

Mikrotik Wi-Fi HotSpot Gateway


Enables easy user authentication and accounting in public, private, wired or wireless networks. HotSpot technology allows Internet providers to offer Internet access to customers, while applying certain Internet use rules and limitations. It is very convenient for Internet cafes, hotels, airports, schools and universities. The Internet provider gets a complete real-time accounting of each customer's time spent on the network, data amount sent, received and more.


User accounting by time, data transferred/received
Bandwidth shaping
Quota (session-timeout, downloaded/uploaded traffic limit)
DHCP server assigned IP addresses
Radius Accounting
Real-time user status information


Contact Chinedu

07040930820
chineduruh@cadlin.com

CadLin Technologies Limited

30, Olakunle Selesi Crescent, Ajao Estate.

International Airport Road. Lagos

www.cadlin.com