In this article, I will be talking about the concept of IP and Subnetting.

Now let’s take a little technical approach;

Each system on the network that communicates must have an IP address. IP addressing is used according to the routing layer (layer 3) of the TCP / IP protocol cluster.

IPv4 – IP (Internet Protocol) Addresses

IP addresses (in IPv4) are 32-bit numbers. These numbers are divided into four 8-bit segments for ease of writing and display, as well as the ease of network management. I’m going to call each of these parts Octet later in my article.

Tutorial How to Install Mikrotik with Netinstall – Mikrotik Installation can be done in several ways. Previously also been discussed about anything how to install Mikrotik in this article: Tutorial How To Install Mikrotik RouterOS. One way to install Mikrotik is with NetInstall.

What is Netinstall?

Based on the source of the Mikrotik wiki, Netinstall is a program that runs on Windows computers that allow you to install MikroTik RouterOS to PC or to RouterBoard over an Ethernet network. Netinstall is also used to reinstall RouterOS in cases where previous installations fail, become corrupted or lost access passwords.

What is Network Address Translation?

The Network Address Translation (NAT) functionality in the Cisco routers allows privately addressed networks to connect to public networks such as the Internet. When the privately addressed network (the “inside”) sends a packet through the NAT router, the addresses are converted to legal (registered) IP addresses before being passed to the “outside”.

Many sites have been using pass-through firewall gateways to provide this functionality. Well, it’s now available in your Cisco router!

First of all, I want to quickly answer the question of what is DHCP. DHCP is a service called Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol that allows devices on the network to automatically obtain information such as IP, Default Gateway and DNS. Normally, we now use DHCP with IPv4, but IPv6 introduces two different DHCP services, Stateful and Stateless.

In Stateful DHCP, just like the DHCP server in IPv4, all the necessary information is provided by the DHCP server, and user information (IP and lease, etc.) is stored on the server. In Stateless DHCP, only DNS, etc. information is received from the DHCP server, IP and GW information are automatically generated by the user computer and user information (IP and lease, etc.) is not stored on the server. A computer on an IPv6 network automatically adjusts IP and GW information by utilizing NDP (Neighbor Discovery Protocol) packets from the router on the respective network.

As I discussed in the previous article on Learning Mikrotik without RouterBoard Using GNS3, this time I will share a way to Install Mikrotik in GNS3 using VirtualBox to create Mikrotik Packet Tracer: D. Why VirtualBox? Why not use Qemu just lightly? The answer is because it’s easier. So it’s better to use an easier one instead of going straight to the hard one.

Okay, we just start How to Install and Setting Mikrotik in GNS3 using VirtualBox. But first, prepare the weapons and ammunition first: