Category Archives: integration

Making your router talk – MikroTik and Telegram Bot Scripting

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While there are existing ways (SNMP/SMS) to run scripts on RouterOS via external means, I’ve been meaning to show off a system I built based around Telegram Messenger – as it’s a relatively common one, and has a flexible API for interfacing with.



I began this with the older MikroTik 4096 character variable limit in mind, intending to process 1 or 2 messages at a time, but found half way through that this no longer applies (yay) – so as many as 100 messages or more could be pulled down at the same time and churned through the processing script.

Because we’re running this based around a single-threaded processing script it’s not going to be the fastest implementation, but I’m hoping this is a good start for anyone looking to expand on the functions I’ve added here.

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Crosspost from Pebkac.io – MikroTik CHR in Microsoft Azure (ARM)

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This post originally from Pebkac.io and reproduced with permission.

At the time of writing, Mikrotik’s current CHR build is 6.35rc49.

While purported to work in a Hyper-V VM, there are no instructions I could find to get one up and running in Microsoft Azure (with ARM).

Knowing that it should be theoretically possible, given Azure utilises a hypervisor with the same origins as Hyper-V, I went down the rabbit hole. Continue reading Crosspost from Pebkac.io – MikroTik CHR in Microsoft Azure (ARM) →

Installing ntop on CentOS 6/Redhat with NetFlow

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MikroTik supports exporting NetFlow traffic data via /ip traffic-flow, which can be read using free or paid software.
This guide shows you how to setup ntop (a free option) on a fresh CentOS 6 (or RedHat) install and assumes you have setup a CentOS 6 server that has a connection to the internet.

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Bridging ESX Virtual Switch Networks using MikroTik and EoIP/Vlan/VPLS

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This is a bit of a different post based on some configuration I did just recently to enable the bridging of a Virtual Switch between 2 ESX hosts.

There is an VMWare option for this called a “VMware vSphere Distributed Switch” however this requires one of the higher end licencing packages so isn’t available on the free or basic packages, but there are many different uses you might have for this,  from simply creating a temporary bridge while you migrate servers to a remote host, or in my case, creating a bridge network across 2 hosts that use a RouterOS vm as the gateway/firewall for the servers. Continue reading Bridging ESX Virtual Switch Networks using MikroTik and EoIP/Vlan/VPLS →