How to configure Mikrotik with a static IP from your ISP?

Mikrotik is a device supplier with the very famous Router OS operating system. This article will guide you through configuring Mikrotik step by step.

How to configure Mikrotik with a static IP from your ISP?

    1. What needs to be prepared before starting to configure Mikrotik?

• First, we need to prepare the computer or laptop, network cable and download winbox.

    2. Connect to your Mirkotik

• Now we start to open Winbox that we already download. then we click Neighbors => Click Login by MAC Address or by IP Address
• Default user is admin and password: empty

    3. Delete all setting on the router

• Go to Menu => System => Reset Configuration=> Select on No Default Configuration=> Click on Reset Configuration

    4. Now let start to configuration steps

• Change name interfaces for we easy to setup
• Go to Interfaces=> ether1 change to Wan1 and bridge change to bridge1

• Create a bridge for Local Network(Lan)
• Go to the Bridge menu=> click + to add a bridge, name it bridge1

• Create Ports
• Go to the Bridge menu=> Ports=> Click add new => Interfaces Select Wan1 and bridge select bridge1
• Do it the same for all port eth2-eth5

5. Setup the IP for bridge1

• Go to IP=> Addresses=> Add New => Address "Input your IP address that ISP provide" and interface select bridge1

Example: Address 192.168.123.80/24 and network 192.168.123.0 and interfaces select bridge1

6. Setup the IP for Wan1

• Go to IP=> Addresses=> Add New => Address "Input your local IP" and interface select Wan1

Example: Address 192.168.20.1/24 and network 192.168.20.0 and interfaces select Wan1

7. Setup DHCP Server

• Go to IP => DHCP Server=> Click DHCP Setup 
  
• Select bridge1 and click next to continue

• Set IP range, automatically set if bridge already has IP

• Set gateway ID

• Set first and last IP

• Set DNS

• Set IP lease time

• Finish DHCP server settings

8. Setup DNS

• Go to IP=> DNS=> then input your DNS from ISP

9. NAT LAN traffic to Allow internet access

• Go to IP=> Firewall => NAT=> Click add new => General Chain Choose "srcnat" and Action choose "masquerade"

After this step, machines in the bridge-LAN can connect to the internet normally.

Conclusion

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