Category Archives: MikroTik

MikroTik: User Management, access permissions, and SSH
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23 May 2026

Time to finally write up MikroTik and Users Management – this one’s been sitting in drafts for ages, and while I’m at it, I’ll also set up SSH key authentication. Let’s walk through the main concepts and settings of Authentication, Authorization, Accounting in MikroTik – groups, policies, and users. What we have and what needs… Read More »

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Arch Linux: a DNS Mystery – VPN, systemd-resolved, and Unbound
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21 May 2026

I’d been wrestling with the problem of accessing AWS EKS from the office for a long time – finally lost my patience and figured it out 🙂 Here’s the problem: there’s an AWS EKS cluster with both Public and Private endpoints for the API. Working from my office laptop, sometimes requests to it go through… Read More »

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MikroTik: WireGuard VPN Setup and Linux Peer Configuration
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14 March 2026

Another one of the many nice features of MikroTik – built-in WireGuard support (although even cheap TP-Link Archers have it). In my setup, the MikroTik RB4011 acts as a “VPN Hub” – all clients connect to it and are united into a single network, and the role of VPN is slightly exaggerated is genuinely important… Read More »

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