I’ve had a few times where I’ve wanted to make a secure tunnel between 2 locations but have only had connections with dynamic IP addresses to work with.
Sure it’s easy enough to setup a dynamic dns script for each router, but how about getting one to connect back to the other on its new IP address?
This little script can be used for just that. Continue reading Using a dynamic dns name for a VPN server
Current version: v1.5
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I wrote a usage tracking script based on the original Automated Billing Script
The way I run it is using a routed Mikrotik box setup to pass everything through transparently then I generated a Queue per IP address to keep track of the usage. On my test box (A PowerRouter 732) I currently have 3 class C blocks passing through with only 3% cpu (Multi CPU enabled).
This system is built for download-based billing only and will report the amount of downloads used by an IP address (or group if you setup a queue with multiple IP’s) each month. (This could easily be switched around thou)
If you use the alternate version of the monthend script you can set the scheduler to run overseer every 1hour without having to worry about multiple reports coming through.
Additional, I’ve since written a smaller manual script for accounts so they can run this at any time and have the usage reports emailed through (see the manual usage report script)
I also have a couple of modified versions of this, including one that works with on-peak and off-peak usage encountered on some Australian ISP’s. Continue reading Automated Usage Script – without usermanager
This is my ongoing work at using multiple ADSL services and the Mikrotik PCC rules along with some inbound mangling to allow a single router to load balance traffic across as many non bonded links as required.
Updated: 7th Jan 2010 – notes: added static routing marks for inbound traffic as inbound should never fall over to backup routes, while outbound should go over whatever is available. Also cleaned up routing order so it’s easier to read.
Note that none of this config requires the use of IP addresses at all, as it simply uses the pppoe-client interfaces and your lan interface to mark traffic. In my example wan1-pppoe,wan2-pppoe,wan3-pppoe are used and lan
Continue reading Using PCC to load balance across multiple non bonded links.