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GJS

Ah, yes, of course!

Thank you!

GJS

Is it possible? I have device behind MT and only one public address and would like to manage them both with Dude.

Thanks

GJS

Use two scripts:

Script1
Ping
If down, send email, disable Script1, enable Script2

Script2
Ping
If Up, send email, disable Script2, enable Script1

Does that help?

GJS

Using the provider's email to SMS gateway has proved slow and unreliable here in the UK. Using a modem to dial the provider's TAP server has been 100% reliable for over a year and the SMS is received as the modem hangs up. I'm not sure I exactly understand your setup but it sounds like you will need...

GJS

I've set up some notifications on Dude 1.2, both email and 'execute on server' types. I've found that many of them only generate a notification on up, not down. Has anyone else found this?

GJS

I think you will need to set up queues based on the mangle rules and then use SNMP on the queues.

GJS

You're welcome!

GJS

Update: Not quite as successful as I thought. Typing a URL into IE works OK, as does the default page and favorites. However, clicking on a link in the history pane results in Page Cannot Be Found.

Any ideas?

GJS

Well, quite successful though there's a bit going on that I don't understand. The setup is one W2K PC running Christian's fakedns program and a web server just serving the "Sorry..." page, on 10.0.51.2. A second PC running XP is setup like a customers machine with 192.168.51.50. These are ...

GJS

Have a look at this thread:

http://forum.mikrotik.com//viewtopic.php?t=9377

There are others as well, mostly people want to redirect non-paying customers.

GJS

The test button in the notification creation dialog box seems to truncate a command line argument for a 'execute on server' notification. Feature suggestion: The facility to specify the SMTP server for individual email notification events, rather than just primary and secondary server for all email ...

GJS

Not sure I understand what the problem is. Just set up a ping service on a device at the other end of the link. Then right click on the device, select service tab, then double click on the ping service and select notifications. To customise the notifications, double click on Notifications in the lef...

GJS

I am using V1.2. The un-ack option is not implemented.

GJS

How do multiple parent devices work in Dude 1.2? If just one of the parents is down the child is not monitored or if both of the parents are down the child is not monitored?

Thanks.

GJS

GJS

Sam - I'm still working on this but I think this IE cache applies only per instance of IE? So when the browser is closed and a new one is opened it should be OK? I've noticed Outlook does a similar thing. In any case, I am doing both the DNS spoofing and a DST-NAT of all web traffic. So if IE does a...

GJS

Good idea. This would be a good feature. It would also be good to be able to measure the speed of a link, and alarm when it is slow. Perhaps integrate bandwidth tester into Dude?

GJS

Perhaps more importantly, how do we UN-ack a device?

GJS

Hi Christian,

Sorry, I did not receive your email with the download link due to email trouble at my end. 'Grateful if you could re-send.

Thanks.
Guy

GJS

OK, Uldis, thanks for this info. Any plans to probe all IP addresses in V2?

GJS

In my experience V1.2 is quite unstable. V2, I imagine, would be very unstable.

GJS

I have two MT V2.8.28 routers on my network. To access these with Winbox from the Dude I have created a custom tool with the following command line: "C:\Program Files\Winbox\winbox.exe" [Device.FirstAddress]:800 [Device.UserName] [Device.Password] For one of the routers this works fine. On...

GJS

What is the expected behaviour of a device with multiple IP addresses? I have a laptop that occasionally is connected to my network. Sometimes it is set with 10.0.0.1 address and sometimes with 192.168.0.1. I was expecting to be able to set two IP addresses in the Dude and have the Dude monitor both...

GJS

As far as I know, it is not possible to probe a device with multiple SNMP community names during discovery. Maybe make this a feature request for V2?

GJS

Ah, that will be because I did not send it...

Sending now.

GJS

Hi Christian,

That's what I thought. I guess worst case is that the customer will have to reboot their machine which is no big problem.

Did you get my email?

Thanks and regards,
Guy

GJS

Hi cmit,

Thanks for your reply. That sounds like exactly what I need. I will email you off-list later today.

Thinking more about it, will this "poison" the local DNS cache on a user's machine? Or do we just set a very low TTL in the returned data?

GJS

I would like to redirect all customer web traffic to a single page on a local server when I have an upstream Internet connection failure. This is so that all customers get a "sorry service is temporarily unavaliable" page as soon as they try to browse to a site on the Internet. The techniq...

GJS

Agreed.

GJS

There is already a legend. Right click on the chart to show/position it.

GJS

It would be nice to be able to group charts in the dude so that they could be easily found, by having more than one tree level in the tree view in the top left pane of dude. Or, maybe if a chart could be associated with a device, make the chart accessible by right clicking the device and selecting a...

GJS

Hmm...there seems to be plenty of ways freely advertised for embedding maps in web pages such as using a formatted url. But there must be a way of getting a georeferenced image as this is what RadioMobile does. So, my feature suggestion is: The settings for each device contains a co-ordinates field ...

GJS

This now fixed in V1.2. Web server is now working.

GJS

I have a 30Mbps spike in a chart for a link which only passes up to 2Mbps, after an outage.

I would like to manually edit out the spike because obviously it messes up autoscaling. But I cannot find a file that contains the chart data. Anyone know where it is?

Thanks.

GJS

I found that installation (upgrade) from 1.1 to 1.2 fails trying to write to (or probably overwrite) the program files C++.dll etc. This is because the dude server was still running even after it was shutdown using the client. Shutting it down from task manager was not allowed due to inadequate perm...

GJS

Yes, I see, it would be difficult to show output from a custom tool running on the server. I, for example, would like to run the management application (not web or terminal based) for some of the radios I have. The only way I can think of doing this is to have some kind of embedded VNC or RDP capabi...

GJS

I have another freeware program (RadioMobile) which uses mapoint or mapquest to get sections of map from the Internet and merge them with ground elevation data. I wonder if something like this could be incorporated into the Dude. e.g. you enter the centre co-ordinates you want, say your NOC or whate...

GJS

For me, this would be the reverese of the best functionality. I think it is right that the tool configurations are stored on the server, but not that they run from the client. There is no way to ensure that a tool config on the server will run from the client which is currently the only place it can...

GJS

I have just found that with V1.1 a change of the view on any client affects the view on any other client connected to the same server. Thus, it is not really practical to have more that one client connected to a server at any one time. This limits the usefulness of the Dude in larger networks. I als...

GJS

It seems you have installed the server on your laptop for no reason. Uninstall everything and then re-install but do not install the server.

GJS

Does anyone have web access to Dude server working in version 1.1? I can apparently connect from a browser but I just get a blank html page like this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=...

GJS

There is a default community which is used if no other is specified, then there is a community for each device. Right click on the device, click settings and then on General tab, fill-in the SNMP community name.

GJS

I would like to be able to configure the speed of some links to be different on Tx and Rx. This is so that the link can change colour when, for example, limited upload speed on an ADSL line become nearly full.

I would also like to be able to set what is 'nearly' full, 25%, 50%, 75% etc.

Thanks.

GJS

Thanks Uldis, that works fine.

GJS

I have suspected that the Dude crashed an OSBridge radio for me. I cannot be sure of this as I could not risk crashing more radios at my customers premises. This was one of the early beta releases. I have now started using V1.1 on just a few easily accessible radios so we will see how that pans out....

GJS

How can I UN-acknowledge an alarm in V.1.1? I thought it would be reprobe but this does not seem to have any effect. The only way I can find to do it is remove all the services from a device and put them back in again.

Thanks.

GJS

I second that feature request. That's exactly what I would like to see.

GJS

I have two networks, let's say A and B, each one behind an MT doing NAT to the Internet. Dude server sits on A network, and there is a PPTP link to the MT on the B network so that Dude can access all private addresses on both networks. Via the Internet connection on network B, there is an SMTP serve...

GJS

How do I set the password on the Dude server?

Thanks.

GJS

Hmm...I'm not sure. The VPN interface at each end of the link has it's own IP address so maybe you could NAT from the LAN IP address to the VPN interface address? I did specifically set up each of my remote networks with a different private IP range for this reason. Would it be a big deal to renumbe...

GJS

You can also do this 'virtual domains' with Apache. It will not work with some very old browsers but I think that most of the worlds web servers run in this configuration. You can have virtually unlimited domains on one server.

GJS

... so obviously you have no idea what you are talking about.

zbika,

If your first post on this forum is just to insult someone, please find somewhere else to go.

GJS

How about setting up the dude server at your NOC and then setting up VPNs to your networks to get the data from them?

GJS

Yes, I would like to see support for PCI dial-up modems.

GJS

Does the Dude have a built in syslog server, such that it can receive and store syslog messages from devices on the network?

GJS

Thanks for your suggestions guys, but I'm not sure that USB can be used for my purpose. Specifically, I want one serial port for console, one for UPS and one for a dial-up modem.

GJS

I want to add two serial ports to an RB230. Does anyone know of a PCI expansion board that works with 2.8/2.9 *other* than those stated in the manual? All those boards are the equivalent of about $150!

Thanks in advance for any help.

GJS

There is a ppp-client that runs on top of serial port - why can you not use this interface with a modem? We do it all the time and it works fine. Sam Sam, Do you mean that it's possible to use a serial port on an MT router to pass IP traffic? If so, can you explain in a little more detail how this ...

GJS

And also you can use proxy-ARP. Do a search here and you should get plenty of explanations.

GJS

Yes, a ordinary Hayes compatible modem can be used to connect to any serial port. You need to set auto answer, serial port baud rate etc. and then set this as the power-on profile. What you *can't* do though is route any traffic over a serial port. MT will not recognise a serial port as an interface...

GJS

What do you intend to use this for? Just interested.

GJS

Just to echo, I would like to have connected UPS stats.

The open API sounds fantastic. Any more info on this?

GJS

As far as I know there is no hardware on RB532 to monitor CPU or board temperature.

GJS

Thank you, Sir! That works fine.

The only problem now is that I have another script that re-enables this netwatch but re-enabling fires an UP event which I don't want to do. Is there any way to stop this?

GJS

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this?

# Disable netwatch for host 1.1.1.1
/tool netwatch disable [find host=1.1.1.1]

apr/06/2006 02:24:52 System-Error: script error: no such command or directory (find)

Thanks in advance.

GJS

ChangeIP - The VoIP adaptor is a Sipura SPA-2100.

Andrew - Yes, it was Zen for me too. Won't blocking everything except established and related stop me from managing the MT from the Internet?

GJS

Stephen,

What you say sounds reasonable about limiting the drivers but then why do MT not remove some of the old drivers for interfaces that have not been available for years?

Cheers,
Guy

GJS

I was recently contacted by one of my upstream ISPs who told me that I have open recursive DNS servers on my network and that these are a security risk. I did a bit of googling and realised that is was my MT gateway router with DNS cache enabled that was the issue. I have "allow remote requests...

GJS

Hmm...yes, I can't see any use for a feature like this. Maybe if you have only dial-up access to your network? But that must be only very rare cases I would think.

GJS

Most of these have already been asked for but my 2c: 1. A method of backing up the router configuration so that it can be loaded onto a new router in the event of hardware failure. 2. More UPS support. 3. More OIDs, maybe even SNMP V2? Or 3? 4. A more accurate and comprehensive manual. 5. An accurat...

GJS

Through this and other MT disscusion groups I often see posts asking how to prioritise VoIP traffic. The question then soon becomes how to identify VoIP traffic so that it can be prioritised.

Could MT identify VoIP traffic by packet inspection in the same way that it currently does for P2P traffic?

GJS

It is indeed common sense to test new software releases before applying them to your network but to do this thoroughly you need a complete replica of the network including traffic load. This is not practical. Release 2.9.14 was not marked as a beta release and it is software which is bought and paid...

GJS

Err...this?

http://forum.mikrotik.com//viewtopic.php?t=7070

GJS

Personally, I think using a default route to reach a *specific* network is a rather confusing concept. Try using a default route only when you want to reach a network which you know nothing about. e.g. a host on the Internet. Then use static routes to reach a network that you do know about e.g. one ...

GJS

But sharing an internet conenction shouldn't be prohibited. Does your water supplier company tell you: you shouldnt let your friends drink your water. You should't water the garden Outside your home, only if it's inside. That's lame. :lol: No, but my water company does say that I cannot run a pipe ...

GJS

Thanks, Djape. I should have said, more correctly, that I am masquerading the private addresses to the public ones.

GJS

Thanks for your reply, Mag. I've read a bit about IPSec and IKE and as you say, they will not work across NAT. I'm going to try proxying a public address to this customer and see if that works.

Cheers,
Guy

GJS

I have a MT with two interfaces, public which faces the public Internet and private which faces a private wireless network. I NAT private addresses on the wireless side to a single public address on the public side. I have a wireless customer who says he cannot get his VPN service to work (I do not ...

GJS

Sounds good. It may make a very good combination with the new R100 routerboard.

GJS

Thanks Ricard. Can you tell me the price for small volumes? The MT site does not have it.

GJS

What's the difference between the R52 and the CM9?

GJS

Have you tried rebooting after making changes to ARP table? I've found this is sometimes neccesary on 2.8.

GJS

Sorry for going OT, but why would anyone want to hide there IP address???

I am struggling to think of a legitimate reason.

GJS

Thanks for your reply, Chris. VRRP appears to require the servers to be VRRP compliant, or introduce and additional router in front of each server, so that's not ideal from a cost and complexity view point. I've googled long and hard and the only type of setup I can find is where you have two of mor...

GJS

Conchalnet,

Are you using 2.8 or 2.9? Winbox or CLI?

GJS

How about firewall rules? For example, silently drop all traffic with: in interface WLAN1 and out interface WLAN2 in interface WLAN1 and out interface WLAN3 in interface WLAN2 and out interface WLAN1 in interface WLAN2 and out interface WLAN3 in interface WLAN3 and out interface WLAN1 in interface W...

GJS

Does anyone have any good tricks for implementing a redundant POP3 server? I was thinking something like this: Put primary server on 10.0.0.1 and put secondary server on 10.0.0.2. Use DST-NAT rule to direct public address of server to 10.0.0.1. Use netwatch to monitor 10.0.0.1 and on failure use a s...

GJS

Hi pekr, The IP scheme you have shown is correct according to the example I mentioned. In the case of your diagram you have an extra network, 10.0.1.0/24, which you would not need if the clients could act as bridges. It's not a problem, but for me it just complicates the network. I understand the la...

GJS

To route you just need to add static routes and appropriate gateways. As you can only route between different networks you will have to have a network for your customers, say 10.0.1.0/24, then a network between the CPE and the AP, say 10.0.2.0/24, then you can NAT to the public address space. I foun...

GJS

If you used at least basic punctuation in your message it might be possible to understand what your problem is.

GJS

If your CPU is running at 100% continuously, I would suspect a corrupt software installation. I have had this several times. To reload the same software version you have to upload the packages to the router with ftp (binary mode) and use the downgrade command: /system package downgrade. 'Hope that h...

GJS

I currently have a 2.8 router with a public interface going to the Internet and a private interface going to clients connected wirelessly via a seperate access point. All the clients have simple queues for their IP addresses to control individual bandwidth. Until now my clients have used an external...

GJS

Is there any chance Mikrotik will update their syslog server or perhaps integrate one with the Dude? A good windows syslog server is a big gap in the market at the moment, I think.

GJS

Have you tried it with a static address on the public interface? This would then prove that it's a DHCP problem rather that the address or other data that's coming from the DSL modem.

GJS

Yes, don't worry about the NAT on the dsl router for now. It just means you will have a total of three networks and be doing double NAT, something like this: (Public IP, Net 1)-DSL Router-(private IP, Net 2) --- (Private IP, Net 2)-MT Router-(private IP, net 3)-----(private IP, net 3)-(PC) So you se...

GJS

A x-over cable is correct for connecting a PC directly to the router. Check the link to be sure, there should be a link light on both interfaces which comes on when you plug the cable in. The "limited or no connectivity" message is what windows reports when you have an interface configured...

GJS

No, unfortunately, I'm not.

GJS

Hmm...I believe there is some "relief" for your wireless card by implementing p2p control in the firewall. TCP works in such a way that if the path is slow it will not just keep throwing packets down it. It will wait for acknowledgement and then send the next packets. So, for example, if p...

GJS

Use /file print to check if the file has uploaded to the router.

GJS

Have you seen:

http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/system/scripting

or

http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.8/system/scripting

GJS

That command line works on my routers. Maybe you do not have all required packages installed?

GJS

Yes, you can downgrade remotely but as with upgrade there is some risk: Upload the old 2.8.28 packages that you need by FTP and then: \system package downgrade and reboot. I have found that sometimes, after upgrade, the router must be power cycled to boot up properly so this is the risk you take doi...

GJS

The ping is proabably not working from outside networks because most DSL routers are configured this way by default. You need to enable ping response and/or access to the speedtouch configuration interface from external networks. Regarding accessing a host (Windows 2000 or any other) on your local n...

GJS

I haven't got a 2.9 router connected to a UPS but this is'nt just a case issue, is it? ups1 vs UPS1?

GJS

Ah, got you!

Happy New Year, Harvey.

GJS

This works as well on 2.8.28:

/system ups monitor do={:log message $line-voltage} once

jan/04/2006 04:28:17 System-Info: 243

Excellent!

Maybe it's something to do with your UPS configuration, I can post mine if you like?

GJS

Hmm...my 2.8 script works fine for alerting on mains failure, Harvsky. It's basically straight out of the manual: wait-on-battery /system ups monitor once do { :if ($on-battery) do { /system scheduler set ups-monitor on-event=wait-off-battery /tool e-mail send subject=([/system identity get name] . ...

GJS

I would advise some caution here. It appears from this thread that it is possible to screw up a network running the Dude: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=3172 I tried it... Yes if you set disc. address to 0.0.0.0/0 it does crash. I did a discovery on my net here at work just for fun... ALL...

GJS

No, just simple queues, P2P traffic control, ARP-Reply only on one interface (two interfaces total), NAT, DNS cache, a few basic firewall rules, PtPP server (one connection) and a couple of static routes. I disconnected all customer traffic briefly and no change.

GJS

I have just noticed that one of my routers has bean pegged at 100% CPU utilisation since I upgraded it from ROS 2.8.26 to 2.8.28 two months ago. There is no excessive traffic or number of packets being passed through the router. There is some packet loss when I ping to devices beyond the router i.e....

GJS

OK. Thanks, Uldis.

GJS

Yes, you can run the dude server on one remote machine and then connect to that from any other machine running a dude client, or from any other machine using a web browser. The dude server has a built-in web server to access basic infomation though I'm not sure if it is fully functional yet. Yes, wh...

GJS

Excellent! I've just noticed the parent feature. However, Uldis, your saying this function is NOT working yet, correct?

GJS

If you have not done so already, I would suggest linking from one central mangement PC to each network via VPNs, then run dude server and client on just that one PC. There is no need to have multiple dude servers for multiple locations. Even if you did, you would still need to connect to the servers...

GJS

I installed version 0.1 B13 over my existing installtion of beta 12 and now it crashes on startup with a GPF. So now I cannot run dude at all.

GJS

OK, thanks.

GJS

Great, thanks.

Is it possible to specify SNMP community per device at the moment? I only seem to be able to specify a default for all devices.

GJS

DOS? Denial of Service, right?

GJS

Also, custom tools do not appear to accept a command line that has spaces in it. Long file names work but nothing with spaces e.g. c:\program files\prog.exe or "c:\program files\prog.exe"

GJS

Also, I just changed the name and URL of a custom device type and got a GPF when clicking OK on the Device Type dialog box.

GJS

Can anyone tell me how to specify a community name per SNMP device? I can see how to change the default for all devices but I have devices with different community strings.

Thanks.

GJS

OK, good. Well done.

GJS

OK, I have a network map that consists of two routers (one MT) an AP, about 16 wireless client bridges associated to the AP, and one dumb switch. I have the switch as a device with address 0.0.0.0. When I double click on it, I get the settings window and then immediately a GPF. How do I do 'export'?

GJS

Is there any ability in Dude to have hierarchical notifications e.g. when one device fails and sends notification, all devices that depend on it for connectivity do not send notification? Or, is there any plan to include this in the future?

GJS

My installation is similar. Numerous crashes running on XP. The causes I can remember are adding a link graphic and adding a (dumb) device with address of 0.0.0.0. Discovery sometimes detects a device at every address in the subnet, even though devices are not present at all addresses and detects ma...

GJS

As an AP acts much like a hub, two clients will simply connect through the AP at the layer 2 level, the traffic will not hit the router.

The only way I know of to stop this is to use an AP that can block forwarding to the wireless port.

GJS

I have MT 2.8.22 on RB232 with a public and a private interface, public connected to DSL modem, private connected to an 802.11b access point. Earlier tonight I started getting huge latency and packet loss to hosts on the Internet and looking at the public interface stats it was running at a near con...

GJS

Thanks, Eugene. Does netwatch do a single ping only or multiple pings and look for percentage success rate?

GJS

From: http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/system/management

Note that it is impossible to import the whole router configuration using this feature. It can only be used to import a part of configuration (for example, firewall rules) in order to spare you some typing.

GJS

Eugene,

As you know, this produces a binary backup that can only be used to restore the configuration on the same hardware, in the event of software corruption, for example. It cannot be used to set up a new router.

GJS

In case it helps anyone else I have found that the email tool will not work on 2.8.28 if the system identity consists of more than one word, at least to an MS IIS SMTP server.

RouterOS sends the system identity in the HELO string which is then rejected by the server.

GJS

Thanks for the advice, Andrew.

I was also able to find out a little more about this type of attack here:

http://www.whitedust.net/article/27/Rec ... 20Attacks/

Cheers.

GJS

As far as I know, and I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, there is no way to copy the configuration of one router to another. This is a major short coming of RouterOS, in my opinion, not only for large deployments but because it makes it difficult to keep a spare router in case of hardware ...

GJS

Hmm...I also get this on my 2.9 routers but I never had it and still don't get it on 2.8. Is this just because it is not being logged by default on 2.8? Also, if this is a brute force attack, why does the username change every time, why not just the password? Surely that would have a better chance o...

GJS

How often does NetWatch ping a host to check if it is up or down?

Thanks.

GJS

Thanks!

GJS

Is there a way to put comments into scrips?

Thanks.

GJS

uldis - Why does the radio switch rate depending on the speed at which data is passing over the link? Why doesn't it just negootiate the best rate based on error rate and then stay there until the error rate changes? This would seem to be the root of the high jitter problems that I and many others a...

GJS

Do you see the AP changing speeds? In my experience these ping spikes are typical of the AP constantly negotiating new speeds, even when the link is stable. This is in 802.11a mode, I have not use NStream. By the way, I beleive that you cannot set a RX speed, only TX speed. So to set a RX speed you ...

GJS

Will version 2.8 receive any updates now that 2.9 is released?

GJS

In your screenshot above the wireless interface says "disabled". Check it's enabled.

That is greyed out, I think.

GJS

Also, by default the "R" only appears when station is associated to AP or when AP has one or more stations associated to it.

GJS

billr,

Yes you are. This is specific to UK under the requirements of IR2007. I am not aware of any harmonised EU rules for 5.8.

Was there no DFS in 2.8?

GJS

Now that we have a supported release, I'm struggling to see the advantages over v2.8. There are a lot of "nice to have" features in Winbox etc. but what are the fundamental differences? From MT home page: Full release V2.9 is out! [Documentation] New features include: Best wireless perform...

GJS

I'm running 2.9rc10 with Atheros cards. In Winbox, Wireless Tables, Registration tab, there is a column that is headed Tx/Rx rate. When this shows 54Mbps/35Mbps, for example, it is obvious what it means but some times it shows only one number. What does that mean?

Thanks.

GJS

Wildbill - both devices I am using are RB523 with Atheros cards. I am trying to set up one as the AP and one as the client. So, back to the original question, how to use WDS mode to bridge a wireless interface to ethernet. As far as I can make out, this would be the set up: MT1 (access point)=AP bri...

GJS

Your welcome!

GJS

So, the RB500 is not limited to 2w per mpci slot? But there is a total power that can be drawn by all mpci slots combined? What is this total power?

GJS

Since the SR-5 card draws a maximum 4.62W as detailed here:

http://www.ubnt.com/sr5/sr5_datasheet.pdf

Then the card is not compatible with RB500 which can deliver only 2W per mpci slot. This is contrary to what is stated here:

http://www.mikrotik.com/

Please clarify.

GJS

The limitation here will be the amount of current that the RB500 can deliver. There have been lots of posts about this in the wireless section. Add up the total maximum current draw or power consumption of the cards you want to use and then check what the RB500 can deliver to the slots. IIRC this is...

GJS

Try increasing max bytes to at least 100000000 (100MB). Numbers above max bytes that are returned by the device are ignored by MRTG. If this works, reduce to the actual maximum data rate that this interface will see. You can download NET-SNMP from: http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/ This gives you Win...

GJS

Please post the relevant section of your MRTG config file. There are many possible reasons why you are getting a zero return.

Have you tried polling the same OID/router with another SNMP manager to see what return you get?

GJS

ok we have a two wan router. Each with it's own block of IP's so I have a static ip set to the router itself 66.15.99.x on wan 2. router wan 2: 66.15.99.192/24 router lan: 192.168.0.1/16 mikrotik router: 192.168.0.70/16 customer needs to get ip 66.15.99.195 as their static. From what I am understan...

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djape - there is no need for any NAT in this setup. The information we are missing is the subnet mask for each address. If the subnet mask for each address is /24 or 255.255.255.0 then all that is needed is to add the router addresses to each router interface. Dynamic routing table entries will take...

GJS

Well, to start with, you do not need to do anything to pass a IP address over a bridge. A bridge is a layer 2 device and will pass data regardless of protocol, IP or otherwise. The only reason you have IP addresses assigned to bridges is to manage them. Apart from that, I do not understand your setu...

GJS

OK. Thanks, John.

GJS

So this is just improvements to the last release and now in a seperate package?

Thanks.

GJS

I see there is a wireless test package in the download page for rc7. Any one know what this is?

GJS

Hmm...there's PM on this board?

I've lost your email address in a recent hard drive failure, can you send it to me?

Cheers.

GJS

A switch to band C with DFS and radar detect might cure it but obviously that's a big change!

Might be worth putting up an RB500 with CM9 card or one of the new OSBridge 5GHz APs to see if it's immune. At least then you'd have a fall back position if the problem gets worse.

GJS

Assuming you need to be as close as you are to the other antennas (even a few cms could make a difference) how about changing the omni for something directional with a good front to back ratio?

GJS

What you are doing now is fine.

Most PCs are set for DHCP as default so providing an address by DHCP i less work when the computer gets a re-format or restore etc.

Putting a static address on the PC makes the router configuration simpler.

Hope that helps.

GJS

I would try dst-nat rule on traffic destined for port 6667 arriving at 192.168.0.2, redirecting it to 192.168.0.3 port 6667. You can also drop all traffic destined for ports other than 6667 on 192.168.0.3.

However, I am not sure if MT can redirect traffic to a different host on the same network.

GJS

No, stay with 2.8 for now.

GJS

What does "Tx/Rx CCQ" and "Tx Signal Strength" mean?

These are reported by /interface wireless monitor wlan1

Thanks.

GJS

I have two RB532 each with a CM9 radio card set to 5GHz band, one set to AP Bridge mode and the other set to station mode. On the station I have frequency mode set to manual txpower, country set to no_country_set, antenna gain set to 0 and Tx Power Mode set to all rates fixed. No matter what I set T...

GJS

Note that warez, at least, cannot be rate limited as only the search traffic is detected. So the search traffic must be completely dropped in order to make the application useless.

GJS

Can the MT Windows bandwidth tester connect to 2.9rc6? I don't seem to be able to get it to work.

Thanks.

GJS

I hope this doesn't sound like BS but... I installed the Dude just after release of the first beta on Windows XP prof. I later found that when I clicked a link to a web page in an Outlook email message that the page would take a very long time to open (several minutes). Thinking it was usual MS beha...

GJS

Don't waste your time trying to make a station bridge 802.1d.

So how do smartBridges, OSBridge, D-Link, Linksys do it?

Thanks,
Guy

GJS

smartBridges AP can support many more than 10 clients in a real world scenario. Are your clients continually uploading or something? Do you have any bandwidth control in place? The issue with client loading on a AP can be because of the "hidden node" effect. This is a limitation of the 802...

GJS

Yes, I think that was said. I'll be trying it over this weekend.

GJS

Yes, censorship is now very common on this board. It's happened on quite a few threads I've been in and normally just for the mention of someone else's equipment. Draconian. No doubt this post will be removed but there is a mikrotik mailing list over at part-15.org. If mikrotik don't want to facilit...

GJS

Hmm...the topic you linked to, hitek146, seems to have disappeared and the contributor wisp-equipment.com is showing in the member list as having 0 posts.

What could have happened here ????

GJS

It seems like the problem revolves around MAC addressing. Comparing the 2.8 and 2.9 manuals, 2.9 has a section on bridge NAT which was not in 2.8. There seems to be comprehensive NAT translation facilities in 2.9 so I wonder if it's just that a different setup is required?

GJS

So, this can only be done if both the AP and the client are MT.

Does an MT with AP interface with a WDS interface accept connections from regular 802.11 clients?

GJS

Hmm...OK, the setup is two routers (2.9rc5 on RB500), call them MT-AP and MT-CPE: MT-AP - 1 ethenet interface (public) connected to Internet with public address - srcnat masquerading to public interface - 1 Atheros interface (wlan1) in AP bridge mode, with address 10.0.53.1/24 MT-CPE - 1 Atheros int...

GJS

Trying that now...

GJS

All I want to do is use RouterOS 2.9, with one atheros interface and one ethernet interface, as a transparent layer 2 bridge. When you say "...RouterOS supports bridging an AP client interface to an Ethernet interface...", how do I make an "AP client" interface? As far as I can s...

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Well, against my better judgement (seeing as the servers I am using now are working fine on two 2.8 routers), I gave it a try and BAM! Sync up straight away: [admin@RB500 AP] system ntp client> print enabled: yes mode: unicast primary-ntp: 209.204.172.153 secondary-ntp: 139.140.181.132 status: synch...

GJS

Can anyone tell me how to do this? It is mentioned in the bridging section of 2.9 manual but the link is broken. Even if it worked I suspect it would take me to the WDS section of the wireless manual page, but this doesn't help me either. I want to bridge an Atheros interface (which connects to an A...

GJS

This is what's not working for me.

[admin@RB500 AP] system ntp> client print
enabled: yes
mode: unicast
primary-ntp: 217.204.76.170
secondary-ntp: 146.186.218.60
status: started
[admin@RB500 AP] system ntp>

GJS

Does the NTP client work in rc5 ? I have it working fine on 2.8 routers but in 2.9 it just stays at status "started".

Also, manually setting the clock does not seem to work as it just reverts to 1/jan/200.

GJS

OK, seems to be fixed. I changed from 5GHz band to 2.4 and back again now it all seems to be working...

GJS

Here it is: MikroTik RouterOS 2.9rc5 (c) 1999-2005 http://www.mikrotik.com/ Terminal vt102 detected, using multiline input mode [admin@RB500 CPE] > export # jan/01/2000 03:09:14 by RouterOS 2.9rc5 # software id = WB7C-3TT # / interface ethernet set ether1 name="ether1" mtu=1500 mac-address...

GJS

Thanks for your replies. One MT is set to AP Bridge mode, the other is set to station mode. Sorry, I did not make myself clear on the setup. Each card is on a seperate RB532/RouterOS router. I am trying to make a wireless connection between the two. Here is the config of the MT set to AP Bridge mode...

GJS

I have just fitted CM9 cards to two RB532 boards runing 2.9RC5. I have never used a wireless interface on MT before. I have set one MT to AP mode and the other to station mode. I can see the AP from the client using snooper but I cannot seem to associate the client to the AP. The client does not sho...

GJS

Write to support@mikrotik.com with as much information as possible. They may be able to include it in a future release.

GJS

I have found this package is now availble from MT's web site:

http://www.mikrotik.com/download_rb500rc.html

'Still don't understand why it is seperate. Sadly, I also note there appears to be no SMTP support for a UPS. I have emailed support with this feature request.

GJS

Thanks for the replies.

Yes, I did mean UPS support for 2.9 running on RB532. I will write to support.

Any idea why this is not included as standard?

GJS

Is there, or will there be, any support for UPS in 2.9?

Thanks.

GJS

I will shortly be setting up my first MT based AP using RB500 and CM9. Yesterday, we had a lightning storm and one of my smartBridges AP locked up and needed a power cycle. It got my wondering what sort of lightning protection I could/should implement for the MT AP. It will be using an omni antenna ...

GJS

Thanks for your replies uldis. I have a feature suggestion, cascading error reports/alarms. This is where a device can be set as say, a "child" of a another device so that if the parent fails, testing of the child is suspended. Maybe it's just in my particular network but this is a really ...

GJS

I have dude installed on the pc but cant install on router? Dont see anywhere how to install on the router so it will run as the server and my pc as the client? I read the usage notes but didnt see it there. I know this is very basic but so am I. thanks Cindy You cannot install anything on a machin...

GJS

Oops, shot from the hip again. This feature is provided under tools. However, I can't seem to execute anything that involves a long file name, which is most things on a windows box.

Also, probes for SMTP and POP3 servers don't seem to work. It reports them as down when they are up.

GJS

Feature suggestion:

The ability to add windows short cuts to the tools menu that appears when right clicking a device. This could be used to display MRTG graphs, proprietary management interface etc.

GJS

Sorry, just found there is quick web access.

GJS

Couple of early suggestions:

- More shapes please for better representation of different devices.
- Quick http access as well as winbox and telnet

GJS

Stephen - You're quite right in that in a practical scenario you won't be seeing 400mW from the card. What I have done though is a link budget with an 11dBi omni on an AP and 19dBi panel on the CPE. Putting CM9 figures into the CPE and SR-5 figures into the AP the link was quite nicely balanced. I t...

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Yes, I believe if you select UK country you will get 5.3 ISM, license free but 200mW and nomadic use only. The whole attraction of band C for me is to be in a band where you cannot walk in to PC World and come out interfering with me. Regarding channel bonding and Bill's comment on getting the UK ch...

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