https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/tags/mikrotik/ Recent content in Mikrotik on shan's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:29:50 +0200 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/mikrotik-pushover-notifications/ Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:29:50 +0200 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/mikrotik-pushover-notifications/ Intro Since I promised that I’ll focus a little bit on the notifications area, here’s a new post on the subject. As I stated in my previous post I want to monitor my devices as well, for example my MikroTik router. Setup In the next sections I’ll go over the process of enabling and configuring e-mail notifications (relayed to Pushover) on the router; with all the prerequisites. SMTP server I don’t have a self-hosted SMTP server, and honestly I don’t plan to have one. https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/fixing-mikrotik-vpn/ Sat, 12 Aug 2023 10:31:14 +0200 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/fixing-mikrotik-vpn/ Misbehaving interface list In a previous post I lamented on the fact that my WireGuard VPN sometimes stops working for some misterious reason. In the coming weeks I did not have any issues with it and honestly already forgot about it but after an upgrade to 7.10.2 the problem raised its ugly head again. Investigation is in order! Troubleshooting is always a fun thing to do, until it’s not. This time it was fun because I decided to read the documentation. https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/mikrotik-wireguard-errors/ Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:26:32 +0200 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/mikrotik-wireguard-errors/ WireGuard why has thou forsaken me I had an issue with my self hosted VPN for a few days now, more to the point, it just stopped working. I run a WireGuard VPN through my MikroTik router and it was surprisingly easy to configure which is not in the standard feature list of MikroTik products. I was suspicious and turns out I had every reason to be. Troubleshooting I like to work my way from the outside in when dealing with problems, I find that it really helps wit pinpointing the exact issue (for me, anyway). https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/upgrade-mikrotik-containers/ Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:39:17 +0100 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/upgrade-mikrotik-containers/ The need to update I’m quite happy with my Pi-hole setup on my Mikrotik router. Since I changed the USB drive to a faster one I don’t have any issues with it. Turns out write speeds are actually an important factor for these kind of use cases, who would have thought. However, if you remember my previous post in this topic, you’ll notice (or not) that I used a very specific tag pulling the Pi-hole image: https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/mikrotik-adblock-with-pihole/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:40:20 +0100 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/mikrotik-adblock-with-pihole/ My router history As I mentioned earlier, I have a Mikrotik hAP ac3 router. I always liked fine-tuning my routers, the previous one was a TP-Link device with OpenWRT installed on it. I bought the Mikrotik router after much deliberation since I was sure that I have the adequate level of networking knowledge to comfortably play with OpenWRT, RouterOS is a different kind of animal. Oh boy, was I not wrong! https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/disabling-cloud-camera-access/ Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:29:43 +0100 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/disabling-cloud-camera-access/ I’ve recently bought a TP-Link TAPO C200 camera (product page) so we can keep an eye on the flat when we are not at home*. This security camera is admittedly an entry level one, but suited our needs perfectly. I did not do much research before buying it, because I planned to use it with my Synology Surveillance Station, so I don’t care about vendor apps or anything fancy, just give me an RTSP stream and I’m good to go.