Hello and welcome to the Mikrotik forum For all new users that uses RouterOS for the first time and have some questions regarding their config here is short tutorial on how to access RouterOS configuration using "WinBox" and how to export their configuration and posting it properly in their topic.

So after you unpack your new device and connect it to the power supply you need to connect it to the PC.

Be careful when connecting because to access your new router you need to use one of the LAN ports and not the WAN port as default network can only be accessed on ports that are LAN members.

WAN port is used to provide internet access to our device and doesn't have any DHCP server and also firewall rules prevents us to access the router. By default DHCP client is running on the Internet port .

Usually WAN port is labelled as "Internet" on your device and it's in most if not in all cases Port 1 (ether1).

After you successfully connected your device and PC you should get IP in 192.168.88.X range.

Now it's time to open Winbox. When you open program you will be met with the screen show on the first image. To connect to your device you need to select it in winbox marked as "Step 1" on the picture. After that you need to input your credentials and that can be find on the sticker at the bottom of your device.

You input your credentials according to the step 2. After that you click connect.


If you entered your credentials right will be met with the following screen:


Now we need to export our configuration so it can be edited and posted on the forum. To do that first we need to open terminal by clicking on "New Terminal" tab on the left side of the Winbox as shown ih Step 3:


When we did that a new terminal window should open and then we input the following command:
And here is how it should look like in terminal window (Step 4)


When that is done we need to export that newly created file to our desktop. To do that we need to open new window named "Files" as shown in Step 5:


After we done that a new window "Files" is open and here we select our newly created file as marked in step 6 and then we simply press "Copy" icon as indicated in step 7:


Then we right click on desktop or any folder where we want to save our configuration file and press paste (Or ctrl+V for windows users). Then we get our configuration file on our PC. Step 8 is to open our file with Notepad or Notepad++.


When file is opened we get our exported configuration and now it's time to redact sensitive information like MAC addresses, serial numbers, software id's, public IPs if we have one, public keys or any other information we found sensitive:


After we redacted our sensitive information it's time to copy it to our post in forum. For that we will use "Code" function in fourm:


We select our configuration from our file, copy it and then click on "Code" function and paste it with ctrl+V or with mouse between brackets. We should get something like this:


After that when we are done with writing of our post we can check everything with "Preview" function to see if everything is good and then we post it.

If there is any information you need don't hesitate to ask

Thank you, gigabyte091.
However the forum (at least here) looks very different, though slowly hovering over buttons shows the function, the "[ code ][/ code]" button is "ugly", attaching a screenshot for reference.

Hey @jaclaz, I don't have this version of the forum when I login so thank you for providing screenshot of another version.

On the specific post, perhaps a note that the default 192.168.88.x network is NOT on the "Internet/WAN" port (or, generally, any ether1) be worthwhile, as a default "WAN" port doesn't have dhcp.

Thank you, I modified that section to make it more clear.

More generally I just think "beginners" should be steered toward to mobile app. That has "modern" UI for a beginner to setup/customize, similar any generic home router. And has some graphs and simple wizard for port forwarding, etc. And with the new BTH, even a VPN is pretty simple. All without needing config. I just don't think Mikrotik gets enough credit for trying to make these easier & I think the forum overly encourages complex sometimes.

So the idea that someone posting a config is the most critical thing masks the real problem: better help will be offered if the problem is well described, while in most case that does mean a config. I just hate reading the newbies having to go through hoops to get a config, when they may not even know what winbox is. QuickSet does cover a lot of common use cases yet unnecessarily lambasted on the forum is part of the toxicity of the forum to newcomers who feel overwhelmed.

Agree to some degree and I understand your POV. What I had in mind when i decided to do that is to help them in advance to prepare configuration when they are asked for one (And you and I know that they will be asked to provide config) or to post config in the first post and avoid potential toxicity here on the forum.

I know how they feel, I was in their position once (talking about some newbie that never had any experience with networks) and I know how it is when you need and wait for help.

That's because new routers ships with admin password, it's not blank anymore.

Also here you can find excellent post from our member @tangent

https://tangentsoft.com/mikrotik/wiki?n ... figuration

This should be your first step after connecting to your new device if you are new to networking and Mikrotik environment.