PPPoE dial Indihome and Speedy in Mikrotik has its own advantages of dial directly from its telecom modem. As we all know, if we both Internet subscription from Telkom Speedy and Indihome, we will be given a modem with the brand Huawei, TP-Link, or ZTE to dial PPPoE Client connection (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet). Some of the benefits indihome dial ppp and speedy in Mikrotik which could add firewall and thus more secure from hackers and attacks the net cut, Mikrotik can remotely via the Internet, and user management easier connection and many other features that we can use in Mikrotik.

Learning Mikrotik: Basic Mikrotik Firewall – In this article, Mikrotik Networking will discuss the basic features of Firewall on Mikrotik Router. Previously let’s first learn what Firewall is.

What is a Firewall?

A firewall is a device that serves to check and determine the data packets that can exit or enter from a network. With these capabilities, the firewall plays a role in protecting the network from attacks originating from external networks (outside network). The firewall implements packet filtering and thus provides the security functions used to manage the data stream to, from and through the router. For example, the firewall is enabled to protect the local network (LAN) from possible attacks coming from the Internet. In addition to protecting the network, the firewall is also enabled to protect the user’s computer or host (host firewall).

Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a Server that is divided into several Virtual Machines (VM) where each VM is a Virtual Server that can be installed on a separate operating system.

For example like our PC / Laptop that installed VMWare or VirtualBox to run the certain OS. Here, of course, we can make some VM run the OS we want.

Well, the VPS is a VPS cloud that is connected to the Internet network. To use it we can hire VPS provided by various server hosting vendors. Here I use VPS from Digital Ocean by hiring Virtual Server in Singapore.

Winbox Mikrotik can find/find Mikrotik devices connected to our PC / Laptop network. With this Winbox feature we can know Mac Address, IP Address, Mikrotik Identity, RouterOS Version, and its Routerboard type as shown below:

This feature can certainly help us to identify the Mikrotik that connect to our network. But with this feature will also reduce the network security, especially Mikrotik itself, because it can be found by anyone who uses Winbox. Even worse if the person is able to log into his Mikrotik and mess up the configuration in it. Do not get away ..

If you are using VirtualBox, up to version 4.3 there is no option to auto start VM VirtualBox, or run VM VirtualBox automatically when PC starts up as it does with VMWare. But do not worry, because this can still be tricked by using some tricks.

Auto start feature is very useful when we will create and use Proxy Server, etc. using Mikrotik on PC itself, or do other things. Well, for the autostart feature VirtualBox can we use, there are some tricks that we must run. The easiest and simplest trick is to create a VM shortcut that will run and run it automatically when PC startup.