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May 30, 2010 at 11:46 am | blog | No comment

Cisco Provides Mobile Carrier Infrastructure for Intelligent Billing Systems

VIVO, Largest Mobile Carrier in South America, Selects Cisco Mobile Exchange to Increase Billing Efficiency

configure mikrotik on virtual box

May 30, 2010 at 11:39 am | blog | 1 comment

There are two ways to access Mikrotik using Winbox installed in Virtualbox:

1. Assigning ether1 IP Address to the same network of VirtualBox Host-Only Network.
This is the easiest way. You have to attach the Network Adapter of Mikrotik to ‘Host-only Adapter’ belong to ‘VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter’. See image below:

Adapter Setting (click to enlarge)

Later you have to set the IP address of ether1 of Mikrotik to be the same network of VirtualBox Host-Only Network. The default IP address assigned to this Ethernet is 192.168.56.1/24, of cource you can change this IP address as you want. You can check the IP Address by using ‘ipconfig’ (Windows) or ‘ifconfig’ (Unix/Linux). See image below:

Virtualbox Ethernet Adapter (click to enlarge)

Now run the Mikrotik OS running in Virtualbox. Login using ‘admin’ and empty password. Set the IP address of ether1 to 192.168.56.2/24 or whatever IP address still in the same network.

ip address add address=192.168.56.2/24 interface=ether1

After setting to ethet1 ip address, try to ping the IP address from Host OS (Windows).

C:\Users\Fuad NAHDI>ping 192.168.56.2

Pinging 192.168.56.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.56.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.56.2: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.56.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.56.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.56.2:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 0ms

If Mikrotik replied the ping, it is ready to access it using Winbox. Run Winbox now and set to Connect To: 192.168.56.2. See image below:

Click ‘Connect’ button and if there are no errors you should successfully log in to the Mikrotik using Winbox.

Winbox Mikrotik (click to enlarge)

2. Mapping / Forwarding port used by Winbox.
Using this way you have to map/forward port used by a GuestOS installed on Virtualbox. Winbox is using port 8291 to LISTEN on the system.

So we will map/forward this port from  HostOS to the GuestOS.

The command are as below:

C:\Users\Fuad NAHDI>cd\
C:\>cd "Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox"
C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage setextradata Mikrotik "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/winbox/HostPort" 8291
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage setextradata Mikrotik "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/winbox/GuestPort" 8291
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage setextradata Mikrotik "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/winbox/Protocol" TCP
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

After executing the above commands withour any errors, now open Winbox application.

Set the Connect To value to localhost and Login to admin, then click Connect button.

After clicking Connect button and no error during login process, you should successfully log in to the winbox application.

Winbox Mikrotik (click to enlarge)

Hope this tutorial useful for others.

instalasi mikrotic on virtual box

May 30, 2010 at 11:31 am | blog | No comment

“MikroTik RouterOS ™ is a software to make them capable of a simple PC into a powerful and versatile router. With support for Wireless, Proxy, static and dynamic routing among hundreds of other features.”

Mikrotik is really powerful and simple, if not, one of the best software for providers of the world!
The Mikrotik as we all know is one of the best management for softs provider we have, but how it was developed based on a firware, it has some interesting things, like accounting and management modules for clients …. For this you can work in conjunction with software (or MyAuth Vigo). He is 100% compatible.

The Mikrotik is also an excellent tool if well configured. I am for beginners, which will use the Mikrotik PROFESSIONALLY, hire someone to configure the whole server … Contrary to what many think, not just install, connect the modem and you’re done! There are hundreds of things, rules, parameters to be configured “Dynamic” ie, according to the needs of the provider, network and etc. …

Here are the steps:

1. Download the Mikrotik iso file on its website here. At the time this tutorial is written, the latest stable version is mikrotik-3.27.iso. Save it in you hard disk. We will boot mikrotik directly from the iso file so we do not need to burn it on a CD/DVD.
2. Run your Virtualbox software. Click Machine > New (Ctrl+N) to create new virtual machine through Virtual Machine Wizard. Then click Next.
3. On the VM Name and OS Type window, insert “Mikrotik” under the Name. Under OS Type, select Linux as Operating System and Other Linux as Version, then click Next.
VM Name and OS Type (click to enlarge)

4. For the memory allocation to the virtual machine, accept as default (256 MB) and then click Next.
Memory Allocation (click to enlarge)

5. On the Virtual Hard disk, check the Boot Hard Disk (Primary Master) option. And then we need to create new hard disk for the mikrotik to install.
Virtual Disk Location and Size (click to enlarge)

6. Create Virtual Disk Wizard will come up. Select Dynamically expanding storage for the Storage Type (selected by default).
7. Since mikrotik is very small software, 512 MB space is more than enough for you. Then click Finish.
8. The next step is point the virtualbox to use iso image file to boot. To do this, click Setting > CD/DVD-ROM. Check Mount CD/DVD Drive and select ISO Image File then point to the mikrotik iso file. Make sure in System category, the first Boot Order is using CD/DVD-ROM, then click OK.
Mount ISO Image (click to enlarge)

System Boot Order (click to enlarge)

9. Now it is the time to start to boot from ISO Image File. Make sure that Mikrotik virtual machine is selected and then click ‘Start’.
10. Mikrotik will boot and after detecting all the devices, the “Welcome to MikroTik Router Software Installation” and you are ready to continue to install the softwares you need.
11. from http://www.techonia.com/install-mikrotik-virtualbox