It’s unfortunate that the Mikrotik RouterOS manual on IPsec is not great – it’s sorely lacking in details  and good examples, and what examples it does have are not well explained. Recently I had to setup several Mikrotik RouterOS to ZyXEL VPNs and through I would document how it’s done.

A common problem with ADSL in the UK is that most connections are still using PPPoA. This means that if you want a computer to have a public IP address on one of these connections, you need to either have a block of IP addresses routed by your ISP to your router (at extra) cost, [...]