some advice for newbie

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi All,
My plan is to buy routerboard 433AH. I have 3 servers 2003 with Active Directory, one is DHCP and DNS server, second one is Backup DNS and printer server and last one is FileServer.
I have 65 users and some of them are nasty heavy porn and torrent downloaders. So i was looking for good cheap QoS device, and I think mikrotik can solve my problems.
So i need some advice or guidance how to setup my network.
From ISP i have static IP address. let say (192.168.1.1) and 2 ISP DNS (192.168.2.13 and 192.168.2.14)
on my network most of local users have dinamic IP address,
my router and firewall is smoothwall (172.16.0.1) with two NIC
NIC 1 (WAN) - 192.168.1.1
NIC 2 (LAN) - 172.16.0.1
Server 1 172.16.0.16 - DNS 1 (local DNS)
Server 2 172.16.0.17 - DNS 2 (local DNS)
Server 3 172.16.0.18 - File Server
netmask is : 255.255.240.0

So if i want to replace smoothwall with mikrotik, how to setup mikrotik and do i need to remove DHCP and DNS from my servers ?

Thanks

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The RB433 should be fine for that, you could easily leave your DHCP and DNS servers active if you wanted to, there’s no need to make the mikrotik run them if you have a setup where they work fine already.

You’d setup the mikrotik in much the same way:

WAN - 192.168.1.1
add default route - 0.0.0.0/0 via 192.168.1.X

LAN - 172.16.0.1

Then you can start putting either simple queues or do a full QoS setup using the mikrotik queue tree.
A good place to start if you’ve never done a proper QoS or queue tree setup is this vid from mikrotik:

http://www.tiktube.com/?video=247

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Thanks omega for your quick reply. :smiley: