Set disable-running-check =no name =VLAN107 Set disable-running-check =no name =VLAN106 Set disable-running-check =no name =VLAN105 Set disable-running-check =no name =VLAN104 Set disable-running-check =no name =VLAN103

Set disable-running-check =no name =VLAN102 Set disable-running-check =no name =VLAN101 Set disable-running-check =no name =VLAN100 Next go to IP -> Services and disable everything except for winbox and wwwįrom here you can set it up how you like, this is my basic lab config (double NAT) that has 8 VLANs with DHCP on each and traffic between them is isolated except VLAN 100 which is where my monitoring sits. The first thing to do is change the password. You can use winbox or webfig for these steps.

You can get the DHCP address of the router using /ip address print or you can download winbox and use the neighbour function to find the IP of the router. The specs are quite low but it’s a router and that’s more than enough for a lab, but you can adjust these if you need to. By default it has 1 CPU, 128MB of RAM and 64MB of disk. Once it’s deployed connect to the console. However there are plenty of other options out there

I am lucky enough to have a CHR-P1 licence from my training but they’re very affordable. They offer a product called Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) which is a virtualised copy of the RouterOS which supports up to 10GB routing and all of the normal features. I have used them for many years and they are absolutely solid. Mikrotik is a latvian router company that have created a great networking product that is solid, cheap, and reliable. Run a virtual Mikrotik with CHR Mikrotik CHR

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