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MikroTik RouterOS is a universal operating system that turns standard hardware into a full—fledged router. Such a solution is widely used for organizing corporate networks and even at home due to its flexibility and accessibility.
This manual uses Ubuntu 20.04 OS
Connect to your server. If necessary, you can use our for performing this operation.
Update the list of packages and repositories of the system.
Check the availability or install the unzip required to unzip the archive.
Upload the selected image using wget or cURL.
After the download is complete, unzip the archive.
The next step is to write the system image to the virtual disk of the server.
Initialize the RouterOS system startup. Enter the following commands one at a time.
Directly in the control panel go to the page of the used server and click on the button «VNC» in the upper right corner.
In the opened window for authorization, enter the login «admin» and skip the password input by «Enter».
Next, if necessary, read the software license, indicating «y» as the answer to the first question. In our case we specify «n» due to lack of familiarization.
Next, set a new password that will be used to access the system. ❗️Pay special attention to this point, as it is the key to compliance with security measures.
After that, edit the corresponding values and enter commands in VNC in turn.
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If all operations are performed correctly, you can now go to the MikroTik RouterOS control panel website. To do this, simply enter the address of your server in the address bar of the browser, after which you will open the authorization page, which you need to specify the same login «admin» and password that you set during the configuration via VNC.
Installation is complete! Now you can start configuring the network interfaces, IP addresses, routing and other features available in MikroTik RouterOS to fully configure your server for use in the network infrastructure.
To download the current version of the software, go to the , where you need to open the "Cloud Hosted Router" section and select the current stable version of the "Raw disk image". Next, copy the link of this button.
To connect to the server, you should now use VNC, which you can access in the . To do this, click on the link and log in using the data sent in the first server activation email.
Please note that the login details for the and the are not identical.
As a simpler method, you can use the button to go to the control panel in your on the virtual servers page. Authorization will happen automatically.
Now go back to the and go to the IP address configuration section. From here you need to write a couple of values, namely IP address and gateway (they are highlighted in the screenshot below).
