MikroTik Training

November 30 was Computer Security Day, which brings us back to the never-ending and highly vital issue of cybersecurity. It is obvious that maintaining security online is of the utmost importance; however, even a limited familiarity with the causes of cyber attacks and the simple ways to prevent them can go a long way. If you are the owner or employee of a small or medium-sized businesses, read to understand why such companies are at risk, and whay they can do to prevent an online mishap.

Following our previous video in which we introduced you to the diagnostic tool of Traceroute in MikroTik's RouterOS, in this session, we're going to look at Traceroute in action to see how it works and how it can go hand in hand with Torch, a powerful network monitoring tool, that will help you gain a much clearer picture of your network if need be.

In the 12th session of our free online MTCNA tutorials, we'll be taking a look at the second commonly-used troubleshooting and network diagnostic tool in RouterOS. This utility, called the Traceroute, is more advanced than Ping and allows you to follow the route, as well as the devices, through which a trace packet passes as it tries to reach its IP destination host.

Having reviewed the fundamentals of ping as a basic and highly useful ICMP-based network diagnostic tool, we're going to use ping in practice and utilize this diagnostic software and check the connectivity status of out-interfaces and source addresses previously set on our MTCNA lab's Class Access Point.

Most pivotal to the fundamentals of managing online networks is the ability to troubleshoot networks and tackle any connectivity issues that may arise. Troubleshooting is a vast field, yet it all starts with basic though highly useful tools. In this video, we'll go over the Ping software utility to see what it is and how it works.