When you’re standing up network infrastructure for a remote office that needs to talk back to a head office, one router can do a surprising amount of heavy lifting — if you lean on VLANs, address lists, and a tight…
Small remote sites often need more than “one flat network and a firewall.” At one of our remote facilities we needed a single MikroTik router (RB760iGS, RouterOS 7.23.2) to cleanly separate three very different types of traffic — a management…
In this guide I will show you how to setup traffic shaping with fq_codel. I did this on my own Opnsense firewall, which is running on a Vodafone Cable connection with 1 Gbit With traffic shaping I could improve my…
This time it was from Mikrotik at one end to OPNsense at the other. Here’s a diagram of the layout. A /16 at each house, connected over the internet. +—————+ +———+ +———-+ +———+ +—————+ | Local Network +—+ House 1 +—+ Internet | |…
How to configure an IPSec VPN between a Sophos Firewall and a Mikrotik Router where the Mikrotik Router has a dynamic IP. Overview The article shows how to configure IPSec VPN Site-to-Site between Sophos firewall and Mikrotik Router where the…