Mikrotik has recently added MPLS to their already amazing RouterOS product. MPLS offers some really nice options for bridging networks that exist within a single administrative domain. But, what can you do if you need to bridge 2 networks that do NOT exist within the same administrative domain? This article discusses how to create a bridge using another fairly recent upgrade in RouterOS. Read on…
In this article, I want to describe how to tunnel EoIP over a PPtP connection. EoIP is a Mikrotik specific method of bridging ethernet traffic over a routed network. The problem with using EoIP as a “VPN”, is that it is not encrypted. The network we will build in this article will tunnel the EoIP traffic over an encrypted PPtP tunnel. There are other methods available in later versions of Mikrotik RouterOS to accomplish this functionality (OpenVPN, for one example) and I will be adding articles on some of these at a later time. the method described in this article will work in any version of Mikrotik RouterOS. It has been tested under 2.8.28, 2.9.51 and 3.13.