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Description
User management is a fundamental component of modern network operations, enabling organizations and service providers to authenticate users, manage access, secure network resources, and deliver reliable connectivity services. For network professionals working with MikroTik RouterOS, understanding user management technologies is essential for building and maintaining scalable network environments.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of MikroTik User Management concepts, combining foundational theory with hands-on lab exercises to demonstrate real-world deployment and configuration scenarios. Students will gain practical experience implementing user authentication, remote access, tunneling technologies, and hotspot services using MikroTik RouterOS.
Topics covered include:
- PPPoE Theory and Configuration
- PPTP Tunnel Protocol
- L2TP Tunnel Protocol
- EoIP Tunnel Protocol
- IPsec (IKEv1 and IKEv2)
- MikroTik Hotspot Configuration and Management
- User Authentication and Access Control
- Real-World Deployment and Troubleshooting Scenarios
The course is designed to provide both the technical knowledge and practical skills required to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot MikroTik user management solutions in production environments. Extensive hands-on labs help reinforce key concepts and provide experience with common implementation scenarios.
Whether the goal is to support ISP subscribers, deploy secure remote access solutions, manage hotspot environments, or prepare for the MikroTik MTCUME certification exam, this course provides the knowledge and practical experience needed to work confidently with MikroTik User Management technologies.
Who this course is for
- Engineers who wish to become MikroTik User Management professional to be able to configure topics of this course in their networks
- Students and engineer who are wishing to prepare for the MikroTik MTCUME exam
What you'll learn
- Understand PPTP Tunnel protocol
- Configure PPTP server
- Configure PPTP client
- Understand L2TP Tunnel Protocol
- Configure L2TP server
- Configure L2TP client
- Configure PPPoE server and client
- Understand the theory behind PPPoE
- Provide internet service via PPPoE
- Create QOS queuing for PPPoE customers
- Configure EOIP tunnel with bridges
- Configure BCP with PPTP
- Understand the usage of MLPPP
- Understand the theory of IPSEC IKEv1 and IKEv2
- Understand what Hashing is
- Understand the Encryption types
- Understand IPSEC IKE Phase 1 and IKE Phase2
- Understand the use of NAT Traversal in IPSEC
- Configure IPSEC site-to-site correctly
- Understand what Hotspot is
- Configure MikroTik Hotspot
- Understand Hotspot login methods (http, MAC, Cookie, https, trial)
- Understand how to create users on the hotspot
- Monitore hotspot users
- Understand how to create profiles on the hotspot
- Understand how to bypass the hotspot using Walled gargen and IP binding
- Understand how to customize the Hotspot using Advertisement and page customization
Requirements
- Preferably has MikroTik MTCNA level
- Has basic networking and TCP/IP knowledge
Course Curriculum
- 3- What is IPSEC - Intro (1:37)
- 4- What is IPSEC - Explanation (9:10)
- 5- IPSEC Protocol suite explained (5:15)
- 6- IPSEC modes of communication - Transport vs Tunnel mode (8:16)
- 7- Types of Encryption - Symmetric vs Asymmetric (5:57)
- 8- Security over the internet using IPSEC (14:47)
- 9- Encyption Protocols (DES-3DES-AES-Blowfish-Camellia-RSA-DH) (15:30)
- 10- Data Integrity - Hashing Algorithms (MD5 - SHA1 - SHA256 - SHA512) (8:52)
- 11- IPSEC Authentication (Pre-shared key vs Certificates) (8:47)
- 12- IPSEC Negotiation Protocols (AH vs ESP) (8:10)
- 13- IPSEC Negotiation Process - Introduction (1:00)
- 14- IPSEC Negotiation Process and choices of IPSEC interesting traffic (9:04)
- 15- IPSEC IKE Phase 1 (ISAKMP Tunnel) (8:40)
- 16- IPSEC IKE Phase 1 (Main vs Aggressive mode) (5:43)
- 17- IPSEC IKE Phase 2 (IPSEC Tunnel) (7:03)
- 18- IPSEC Data Transfer (2:59)
- 19- Difference between IKEv1 and IKEv2 (5:45)
- Lesson 6 - Introduction to PPPoE (3:22)
- Lesson 6 - PPPoE Explanation Part1 (16:20)
- Lesson 6 - PPPoE Explanation Part2 (8:26)
- Lesson 6- LAB -6 - Configuring PPPoE server including Profiles and Secrets (16:37)
- Lesson 6 -LAB 6 - Configuring the switch, PPPoE client on C1 and PPPoE client on C2 (15:26)
- Lesson 6 - LAB7 - Options available on PPPoE - Part1 (13:56)
- Lesson 6 - LAB7 - Options available on PPPoE - Part2 (6:47)
- Lecture 1 - The need of the wireless Hotspot1 (2:47)
- Lecture 1- How MikroTik Hotspot works (9:09)
- Lecture 2- Main requirements for the MikroTik Hotspot (3:04)
- Lecture 2 - LAB 1 - Configuring the main requirements of the MikroTik hotspot (17:12)
- Lecture 2 - LAB2 - Configuring the Hotspot on the MikroTik router (19:39)
- Lecture 3 - LAB 3 - Setting up Cookies and trial profile (15:37)
- Lecture 3 - LAB 4 - Limit user uptime based on time or upload download traffic (14:42)
- LAB 5 - Creating users profile for speed limitation - Part1 (15:35)
- LAB 5 - Creating users profile for speed limitation - Part2 (7:33)
- LAB 6 - Advertising on the hotspot (19:06)
- LAB 7 - Bypass user authentication on hotspot using IP Bindings (9:46)
- LAB 8 – allow access to a website without hotspot authentication using Walled Garden (12:57)
- LAB 9 – Changing the look of captive portal (19:40)
- LAB 10 – Hotspot Https redirect using self certificate (15:28)