RB750 Home Router Setup Questions

Ok so I currently have my network working. I do not feel it is safe though. So I am currently using the default settings on the rb750 except that I changed the internal ip addresses for dhcp and set my dns to opendns.

My goal is to get this to work like my old dlink router that this is replacing. You could plug that in and be a little less worried. I don’t want any crazy attacks on my computers all the time so I believe I need to setup nat and bridge mode? I am not really knowledgeable about networking but I can use Winbox quite well. So what do I need to do? Also do I need to setup any firewall rules/settings?

The other thing I want to do is disable remote management. I do not want people to be able to ping or access the mikrotik externally. How do I fix that?

Edit: Oh another thing I want to do is monitor each connection separatly. This apparently does not work quite right with my current config because of the dhcp server or the switch mode… I am not actually sure but I can only monitor the ether2-local-master interface. I also found this but not sure if this is necessary.

To protect the router itself add rules in the input chain that allow traffic from trusted hosts, and then drop the rest.

To get the default settings of any other SOHO router, add rules in the forward chain that allow established and related traffic, then allow traffic with an out-interface to the WAN, then drop the rest.

Don’t bridge. I don’t see where bridging would come into your scenario. NAT is going to be a requirement, anyway.