All In One IT Solutions: How to configure IP Hotspot and bandwidth shaping in mikrotik ?

1) Install mikrotik OS on your System .

2) Power on the virtual machine.

3) with your username and password.(default username and password is admin and blank).

4) Login

5) to add ip address :-

a) admin@mikrotik>setup

b) enter a to add ip and gateway.

c) give Ethernet.. to configure ip. (eg ether1)

d) then type ipaddress/subnet (eg 192.168.138.131/24

e) press enter to give default gateway and type your default gateway.

f) Wan configuration is finished .

g) And add ipaddress in lan address as above in antoher Ethernet.

h) Press d to add dhcp server in lan interface .

i) Give ip address for dhcp (i.e gateway of dhcp clients) .

j) Give address give out .(i.e for dhcp client address)

k) Give dns server for address resolution .

l) Ip address is configured in both interface .

6) To view ip address configure type > ip address print command.

7) Try winbox .

8) Connect xp machine from eth 2 and try web browser to download winbox

Note : winbox is graphical tool for mikrotik configuration .

9) Windows machine gets automatically ip from dhcp.

10) Browse ip address of server and download winbox.(eg http://192.168.0.1 and click winbox to download)

11) Open winbox in connect to type server ip address (i.e 192.168.0.1) and username and password and click on connect .

12) Lets start to configure hotspot (i.e username and password verification to access internet from LAN

Ø Click on ip > Hotspot>server tab> click on hotspot setup.

Ø Give hotspot interface (i.e ether 2)

Ø Give local address of hotspot .(i.e 192.168.0.0/24) and click on masquerade. network. > next.

Ø Select certificate none .> next.

Ø Add smtp address .> next.

Ø Add dns server addess >next.

Ø Give dns server name (eg hotspot.com) > next

Ø Create hotspot user to access from lan .(username : prakash passwd : prakash)

Ø Click on next > ok

13) Go to xp and browse internet .

14) Then login page appears and login with username and passwd .

15) For bandwidth allocation IP>hotspot>server profile >general>rate limit> give bandwidth .(eg 64k/64k for 64 kb uplink and downlink)

Thanks ,

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