The third nic card connects to the wan interface that bridges the interface connection to the internet as a whole we have three network segments comprising of the lan, squid and the interface to the internet. The lan segment lan1 nic card connects to the client i.e windows xp that we have created previously and the next squid lan segment connects to the redhat enterprise linux 6 that we will be creating and configuring a bit later. As we can see we have three nic cards inserted to the mikrotik routeros. Install windows XP to the virtual machine. Now we install mikrotik routeros on a next virtual virtual machine with the following settings. Now that we have created lan interface we would install the operating system. Create a lan segment called lan1 in the lan segment creation of the vmware. I would show you the setting up of a lan segment for the connection to other virtual machines so that the client machine gets isolated and u can connect it to the mikrotik server and route the traffic it generates from there according to the type of traffic it generates. As u can set up all things like the operation system ram and the amount of hard disk. Firstly set up a client on the vmware most preferably the client is windows because of its lesser memory requirement as a client.

Lets begin with the test environment where we want to test a mikrotik and a squid proxy for the acl filtering and caching purposes. one of the marvels of the technology these days is virtualisation.we can use virtualization to meet our purpose and not to hamper the production environment.

We came across several situations where we want to test new thing and also not to hamper our production environment and as a student we don’t want purchase new hardware for the testing purpose.

Mikrotik routeros for vmware