1. Basic routing
   1. Routing classification
   2. RouterOS routing components
   3. Default route
   4. Connected Routes
   5. Static routing
   6. Labs
   7. Summary questions
2. Advanced static routing
   1. Types of load balancing
   2. Equal Cost Multi Path (ECMP)
   3. Administrative distance (distance)
   4. Check-gateway-option
   5. Routing policies
   6. Life time (time to live - TTL)
   7. Scope
   8. Types of routes
   9. Preferred source
   10. Summary questions
3. OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
   1. Dynamic routing
   2. OSPF
   3. OSPF for RouterOS
   4. Common problems of an OSPF installation and comparisons
   5. Summary questions
4. BGP: Border Gateway Protocol
   1. How BGP works
   2. BGP with Mikrotik RouterOS
5. 802.1q
   1. The 802.1q standard
   2. VLAN on RouterOS
   3. RouterOS /32 and IP addresses unnumbered IP
   4. Summary questions
6. Tunnel
   1. Virtual Private Network
   2. Tunnel
   3. IP-in-IP
   4. EoIP
   5. IPsec
   6. IPsec/XAuth
   7. MPLS
7. Useful schemes and tables
   1. Block diagram of packet flow
   2. Differences between Cisco IOS and Mikrotik RouterOS

After the second edition of the book "Theory, laboratories and exercises for Mikrotik RouterOS" (actually only in italian language) some readers asked to extend the work to other key topics of Mikrotik's RouterOS system. This booklet was born starting from this request and sorting out my notes on advanced routing, it wants to deepen the main themes of routing through the lens of the RouterOS system exploration used in Mikrotik products. At the same time, this book aims to be a concrete preparation for the Mikrotik Certified Routing Engineer (MTCRE) exam even through the analysis of real cases in which advanced routing is a fundamental and decisive tool. If you want you can tweet tagging @vittore. Due to the complexity of the topics I had to left out some guidelines that had helped me in the first book: in almost all the laboratories of this book more than one router is needed and the laboratories are not located at the end of each chapter but have been moved in useful points to reinforce the knowledge just acquired.

This text is a work-in-progress. All suggestions are welcome. If you have directions, write to vittore@zen.pn.it . A special thanks goes to my colleagues who have sacrificed themselves in trying all the exercises.