Re: [AFMUG] Easiest VPN on mikrotik

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:46:52 -0800

MT made L2TP+IPsec w/ pre-shared key painless to configure around v6.30 or 6.32, somewhere in there. In winbox, PPP > LT2P Server, check Use IPsec and fill in the IPsec Secret field. That's your pre-shared key. No more manual IPsec config, all of that is handled dynamically now. So it's just as easy to set up as PPTP.
I'm still running this on our NOC CCR for remote access, and yes, the out of order packet issue is a problem especially with HTTPS, but I'm not going back to PPTP. 


If MT was smart, they would let us bypass the h/w accelerated encryption 
and let it gobble up one of the 36 unused CPU cores. I don't really 
care. At least that's an interim solution.


On 12/12/2016 10:42 AM, Jon Bruce wrote:

+1

It's right up there with WEP or locking your screen door.


Is OpenVPN an option on Mikrotik?  I've run it for years on pfSense 
and stand-alone and love it.  Failing that, IPSec with a decent client 
like Greenbow has also worked easily and well.


All of that being said, is easy what is best with security?

On 12/12/2016 11:30 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:

Not well.



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*From: *"Dennis Burgess" <[email protected]>
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I have IPSEC running on CCRS moving hundreds of megs?

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*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Adam Moffett
*Sent:* Friday, December 9, 2016 1:16 PM
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*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Easiest VPN on mikrotik


And yes Ken, I can attest that IPSec works for crap when the endpoint 
is a CCR.


------ Original Message ------

From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>

To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

Sent: 12/9/2016 1:05:28 PM

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Easiest VPN on mikrotik

    You mean no encryption, it would be secured with
    username/password, right?  Depends on what kind of security he is
    looking for.  It would be easy enough to set up an IPSEC VPN, the
    question is CPU load if the encryption has to be done in
    software.  Also, weren’t there some posts about problems with
    hardware based encryption on some Mikrotik platforms, maybe CCR?

    It sounds like you  are looking for a client based VPN, not a
    site-site VPN?  So you need something that will work with a
    client that comes with Windows?  That sounds like either PPTP or
    IPSEC.

    *From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Josh Reynolds
    *Sent:* Friday, December 9, 2016 11:49 AM
    *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
    *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Easiest VPN on mikrotik

    No security though.

    On Dec 9, 2016 11:47 AM, "Tushar Patel" <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        PPTP on mikrotik. It will be same, IP address and username
        and password.

        Tushar


        On Dec 9, 2016, at 11:42 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm
        <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

            I have a non WISP customer with some cameras they
            monitor, not NVR/DVR to speak of yet. The cameras are
            port forwarded (called pinholes in their current router)
            individually, so theyre pretty much exposed IoT targets.

            Im putting a mikrotik in because the Fortigate solution
            is cost prohibitive. Fortigates ssl vpn is slick, easy
            and end user friendly (for the client)

            Whats the easiest VPN/client on a mikrotik. It would be
            great if it was as simple as the fortigate, they have a
            workstation client and most phone apps, All I need to do
            is give them an IP/FQDN and their username and password,
            its done.


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