Getting Started
Getting Started covers initial RouterOS setup, configuration management, installation, licensing, upgrades, backups, and first-time security tasks. Use this section to bring a router into service and maintain the base system.
Networking Fundamentals
2 items
Configuration Management
2 items
Installation and Upgrade
3 items
RouterOS License Keys
3 items
Software Specifications
1 item
Upgrading and installation
1 item
Backup
The RouterOS backup feature allows cloning a router configuration in binary format, which can then be re-applied on the same device. The system's backup file also contains the device's MAC addresses, which are restored when the backup file is loaded.
Console
Overview
First Time Configuration
Before You Begin
Netinstall
Netinstall is a utility for installing and reinstalling RouterOS on MikroTik devices.
RouterBOOT
RouterBOOT is responsible for starting RouterOS in MikroTik hardware devices, such as Access Points, routers, and other models. Since many new hardware families have been made by MikroTik, here and elsewhere, when the term RouterBOARD is used, it applies to all the other hardware families that run RouterOS as well.
RouterOS configuration reset
Quickstart
Securing your router
The following steps are recommendations on how to additionally protect your device with already configured strong firewall rules.
Supout.rif
What is a supout.rif File?
Upgrading to v7
Introduction