Feb. 17, 2026
Most modern mikrotik can handle reasonable wireguard performance, but it is a CPU based encryption model, so there are some tweaks that can be made to improve performance. The following can be used to optimize for better wireguard behavior. However, it should be noted that unlike the IPSec capabilities that are measured and reported on the Mikrotik product pages for each platform, wireguard limits are not published for any mikrotik platform.
Oct. 9, 2025
Sometimes weirdness occurs within DNS if you’re on an IPv4 network and you connect to a dual-stack or v6-only VPN. Maybe the browser doesn’t connect, but you can still send pings, or vice versa. Is the OS getting confused about which stack and which order of interfaces to request services? Is the weird behavior being caused by Happy Eyeballs? Is it something else? These occurrances can be infuriating and very difficult to troubleshot.