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  • Install OpenWRT on Mikrotik RB2011

    Install OpenWRT on Mikrotik RB2011

    The RB2011 is a low cost multi port device series. It has 10 Ethernet ports: 5 Gigabit Ethernet and 5 Fast Ethernet ports. With the 600MHz AR9344 CPU, the router is only suitable for home or very-small-office where you are connecting to the Internet with PPPoE or DHCP.

    In this video, I will show you how to install OpenWRT 19.07 on this Mikrotik Routerboard 2011. After that, we will have some tests to check out the device performance: WAN to LAN iperf test, OpenSpeedTest and PPPoE with VLAN speedtest. Of course software & hardware offloading tests will be conducted as well.

    Due to the switch configuration bug in LuCI (for the RB2011), you won’t be able to configure VLAN with LuCI. But no worry, I will also show you how to configure VLAN tagging using the Command Line.

    Resources that you will need:

    Mikrotik RB20211 Firmware Download & Guide

    Common Procedures for MikroTik RouterBoard

    TinyPXE Application

    Good luck!

  • Install OpenWRT on Mikrotik RB750Gr3

    Install OpenWRT on Mikrotik RB750Gr3

    In this video, we are going to install OpenWRT 21.02 on the Mikrotik RouterBoard 750Gr3 (Hex).

    Most of the routers from Mikrotik use netboot via tftp to install/recovery the firmware and we will do the same for OpenWRT. This video will also show you how to downgrade your RouterOS version to 6.49.2 and backup your RouterOS license key, before proceeding with the OpenWRT installation with TinyPXE. Besides that, we will do a quick speedtest to see the CPU usage. At the end, we will also enable hardware & software flow offloading to see if there is any improvement in the performance.

    Check out the video at https://youtu.be/2k1uji4el7c

    Resources:

    Installation Guide & Firmware

    Common Procedures for MikroTik RouterBoard

    RouterOS Download

    TinyPXE