I have recently upgraded my router from a nearly 7 year old consumer “gaming” router to a Mikrotik RB960PGS router.

So far I have been able to:

  • Remove all configurations
  • Set a long admin password
  • Create a bridge
  • Setup DHCP server
  • Set up NAT
  • Set up Spark NZ fibre connection
  • Update to latest stable firmware (7.15.2)
  • Set up basic IPv4 & IPv6 firewalls
  • Setup NTP & disable cloud/update time
  • Set DNS to my Pi-hole
  • Disabled the following IP services API, API-SSL, FTP, SSH, Telnet, & WWW-SSL
  • Turned off “detect internet”
  • Turned off “use peer dns” so all DNS goes through the Pi-Hole instead of the ISP’s DNS servers.

Is there any other “gotcha’s” or things that I should be setting up?

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You should probably backup the config, just in case you mess something up when playing with settings.

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That’s the next thing I plan on learning.

Then writing out a set of procedures so if I have to redo it I don’t forget anything.

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