A few weeks ago, I faced a very strange problem with one of my routers. The Dude alarmed that that one router is down. I had previous problems with the link on that location and I didn’t checked it immediately. Nonetheless, when the router didn’t recovered, I logged on it and found that the VPN client can’t connect anymore. Continue reading
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This category covers all articles related to VPN technologies. You can find here how-to and troubleshooting guides for all technologies from PPTP to IPsec.
MikroTik Site to Site IPSec with RSA certificates
Today, I will guide you through the configuration process of a Site to Site IPSec tunnel between two MikroTik routers while using RSA certificates instead commonly used Pre-Shared Keys (PSK).
The advantage is clear – even a weakest certificate is stronger than many PSKs used around. The seed value used for all other computations and crypto-keys is longer and consequently the whole communication is more secure. In addition, when it come to the PSK generation process, many people lost their creativity. Continue reading
How to protect an IP-IP tunnel with IPSec
In this part of the MikroTik IPSec series, I will discuss about how to use IPSec to protect any other MikroTik tunnel without built-in encryption. I will use in this example an IP-IP tunnel as the reference, but you can apply this method to any other type. I already covered L2TP/IPSec PSK tunnels, as they are different in their nature.
Let’s begin! Continue reading
MikroTik Site to Site IPSec when one router has a dynamic WAN IP address
In this part of the MikroTik IPSec series, I will show you how to establish a Site to Site IPSec tunnel between two routers, when one of them has a dynamic WAN IP address.
This scenario is different than other one described in this article where MikroTik is behind another router, as in this case our MikroTik has a WAN port (like a 3G/4G-LTE or cable modem) with the dynamic IP address, plus there’s a good chance that this address is from the ISP’s private IP address pool.
Even better, in this article I will explain you the concept of a Loopback adapter and how you can use it in situations similar to this one. Let’s begin! Continue reading
How to setup the SSTP VPN client in Windows 7 and later
In this article, I will guide you through the setup process of the SSTP client in Windows 7 and later. This tutorial also covers the Windows server platform. The client side setup does not depends on the type of VPN server.
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