Top Mikrotik Tips

Running Mikrotiks in the field? Here are my top tips for making the most of your Mikrotik Experience:

1. Secure
1.1 - Users and Passwords
1.2 - Access Ports
1.3 - Protect against brute force hacks
1.4 - Anonymize your connection
2. Manual Backups (and why a backup is not a backup)
3. Blocking Sites
5. Remote wake your computer
6. Remote access to your network

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Asterisk PIN based dialing

As an Asterisk administrator, I often have clients requesting the ability to have users enter a PIN before dialing. This is useful on factory floors where users roam between different phones, but still need to be held accountable for their calls. Apart from just authenticating the user, the dialplan also has to ensure that the account code is correctly assigned in the CDR.
To this end Asterisk provides the AUTHENTICATE dialplan application.

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