Monday, August 6, 2012

Random Order of Firewall Rule

Have ever find this condition? Rules you set in firewall has changed its order in all tabs like rules, NAT, Mangle in /ip/fi. I ever face this situation, and my solution are below:

Sunday, August 5, 2012

I use webproxy but why my connection becomes slower and not responsive?

This often happens, we mean to use a web proxy to make browsing so much faster because of content that had previously accessed does not need to be taken again from the internet. But, in fact the connection is even be slower and not responsive. So often arise a question to myself "why even slow if I use webproxy". You know, where lies the fault?

"Pake proxy malah lambat"

Hal ini sering kali terjadi, maksud hati pakai web proxy supaya browsing lebih cepat karena content yang pernah diakses sebelumnya tidak perlu diambil lagi dari internet. Tapi, kenyataannya malah jadi lambat. sehingga seringkali muncul pertanyaan dalam hati "Pake proxy kok malah lambat". Tahukah Anda, di mana letak kesalahannya?

My Mistake #3: Forcing Hardware Capability

As mentioned in my former article, forcing hardware capability can lead to improper performance of MikroTik router. Why? because the router forced to work in high task and router hardware could not answer the challenge. Sometimes I seemed "forget" about my router hardware when configure these aspect below:

Saturday, August 4, 2012

My Mistake #2: Using Inappropriate IP

Sometimes occured in my hurry configuration. Using inappropriate IP I mean here is more related to bad subnetting. Never use any 255.0.0.0 subnet to your local because it will shorten IP broadcast and make your MikroTik router use high resources. Pay attention that different interface should be have different IP class.

My Mistake #1: Doing Double NAT

Doing Double NAT. Please don't do this in your MikroTik router. It will make your internet connection more slower, because your router do same job twice for every connection.
Solutions are:

Some mistakes in my MikroTik configuration

This post seemed like a confession, but I plan it for my future. Maybe readers can take benefit from my experience. Since December 2006 I used MikroTik as router for my cybercafe.