Office

Mikrotik routers are rightly valued by system administrators for their incredible flexibility.
A unique feature of this hardware is that a budget home hAP lite and a powerful enterprise router costing thousands of dollars run the same operating system — RouterOS.

That means once you learn to configure one device, you can manage any equipment from the brand.
In this article we’ll go over the fundamental steps to set up a Mikrotik from scratch to a fully working state.

OPNsense — it’s like pfSense, but prettier, faster, and with an API.
Want an office firewall you wouldn’t be embarrassed to show your boss? Here it is.

💼 Who OPNsense is for

• Office of 10–50 people
• VPN for all employees
• Backup internet connection
• Modern web interface

🎨 Apple-like interface

• Dark theme
• Real-time graphs
• REST API for automation
• WireGuard out of the box

⚙️ Installation in 5 minutes

1. Download the ISO from opnsense.org
2. Write it to a USB stick (dd or Rufus)
3. Boot → assign interfaces → done!

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