Mikrotik Tutorial for Beginners

After finishing installation, a beginner like me might be confused how to login a Mikrotik router. 

User: admin
Password: <none/ blank>

Anyways, I am going to share some very basic commands of Mikrotik CLI.

Add IP address in a interface:

>ip address add address 10.0.0.1/24 interface ether1

Check the IP:
>ip address print

Add default Gateway for Mikrotik:

>ip route add gateway=192.168.200.1

Check the Route:

>ip route print

Masquerade / NAT implementation through WAN interface:

>ip firewall nat add chain=srcnat action=masquerade out-interface=ether1

Check NAT:

>ip firewall nat print

Forward your External Interface request to a Internal IP:

>ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat dst-address=10.5.8.200 action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.0.109 ### 10.5.8.200 (External), 192.168.0.109 (Internal)

Port Forward / Mapping from External to Internal:

>ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat dst-port=1234 action=dst-nat protocol=tcp to-address=192.168.1.1 to-port=1234 ### port forward/ mapping