tik4net

📢 A note from the maintainer

Version 3.6.0 is out! Thanks to AI tooling I finally had the bandwidth to work through all open PRs and critical bugs. Special thanks to Deantwo and all contributors who helped others while I was away.

I am looking for collaborators. If you are interested in helping maintain this project, please reach out — open an issue or contact me directly.

Current release targets netstandard2.0 only. This covers .NET Framework 4.6.1+, .NET Core 2.0+, .NET 5/6/7/8/9, Xamarin, and Unity.

Tested and debugged against RouterOS 7.21.4 (latest stable).

tik4net is a .NET library for communicating with MikroTik routers via the MikroTik API protocol. It offers a clean, easy-to-use interface that scales from low-level raw API access all the way up to a fully typed O/R mapper.

Package	NuGet	Description
tik4net		Low-level ADO.NET-like API — synchronous and async R/W access
tik4net.entities		High-level O/R mapper — strongly typed entities, full CRUD. Pulls in tik4net automatically.
tik4net.testing		Unit-testing support — TikFakeConnection lets you write tests without a live router

Tools — semi-automatic C# code generators for custom entities (used with tik4net.entities).

Features

• Easy to use with O/R mapper like highlevel API
• Low level access supported by low level API
• Stable interface and backward compatibility
• Broad range of .NET runtimes supported (including .NET core 2 and Xamarin)
• New mikrotik v.6.43 login process supported
• Includes MNDP discovery helper
• Easy to understand and well documented code

Binaries

Install via NuGet — see the package table above, or:

dotnet add package tik4net.entities  # high-level API (pulls in tik4net)
dotnet add package tik4net           # low-level API only
dotnet add package tik4net.testing   # unit-testing support

See release notes / version history for what's new.

Getting started and documentation

Mikrotik API wiki:

• Mikrotik API wiki
• Mikrotik API notes

Project wiki:

• wiki root
• CRUD examples for all APIs
• how to use
• History

Examples:

• example project
• support forum
• For VisualBasic trivial example see VB example

   using (ITikConnection connection = ConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(TikConnectionType.Api_v2)) // Use TikConnectionType.Api for mikrotikversion prior v6.45
   {
      connection.Open(HOST, USER, PASS);

   ITikCommand cmd = connection.CreateCommand("/system/identity/print");
   var identity = cmd.ExecuteScalar(); 
   Console.WriteLine("Identity: {0}", identity);

   var logs = connection.LoadList<Log>();
   foreach (Log log in logs)
   {
       Console.WriteLine("{0}[{1}]: {2}", log.Time, log.Topics, log.Message);
   }

   var firewallFilter = new FirewallFilter()
   {
      Chain = FirewallFilter.ChainType.Forward,
      Action = FirewallFilter.ActionType.Accept,
   };
   connection.Save(firewallFilter);

   ITikCommand torchCmd = connection.CreateCommand("/tool/torch", 
      connection.CreateParameter("interface", "ether1"), 
      connection.CreateParameter("port", "any"),
      connection.CreateParameter("src-address", "0.0.0.0/0"),
      connection.CreateParameter("dst-address", "0.0.0.0/0"));

  torchCmd.ExecuteAsync(response =>
      {
         Console.WriteLine("Row: " + response.GetResponseField("tx"));
      });
  Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER");
  Console.ReadLine();
  torchCmd.Cancel();

Looking for help

• Importing other classes
• Looking for betatesters

Roadmap & future

• create highlevel classes for all mikrotik entities (you can still generate your own classes)
• create tiklink project - easy use-to wrapper over mikrotik router with fluent API
• convert examples to separate unittests (in progress)
• tiktop — a MikroTik traffic monitor inspired by Linux iftop (currently in alpha, publication coming soon)

REMARKS: This project is rewritten version of deprecated tik4net at googlecode (last version was 0.9.7.)

Licenses

• Apache 2.0.