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hitek146

Ahh... The log reads: 2.4GHz AP1 Phys: disconnected xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, your ACK is set wrong, you moron Just joking... :) I read MT logs every day, so I had obviously already looked at the logs(and ACK is also not the problem). :D All the logs really say is of no help: 2.4GHz AP1 Phys: disconnected ...

hitek146

I've long known that the CCQ will be low when no data is being transmitted, but these problems keep the CCQ at 0 or 1, no matter what I am trying to do, and no matter how much data I am trying to transfer. If I try to transfer data on one of these problem links, it fails, and sometimes the link even...

hitek146

I have the same problem, with 6 towers... All 6 towers worked just fine in the past, with clients showing 15-20 CCQ before, but now, some clients on all six towers show CCQ in the 0-1 range, which doesn't work at all. I don't know if it's because I upgraded to newer 2.9.x versions of RouterOS or if ...

hitek146

Instead of "butchering" an RB14/18 we are having a two port PCI riser built that recieves power from an external connector OR from the host PCI. I would hardly call it "butchering", unless the person actually is a butcher, and is taking his first attempt at soldering... :D Repla...

hitek146

I'm trying to bridge, to our backhaul, the ethernet interface of a wireless client that is logged into a central access point. The only way for a client to get access into our centrally located access point, for securtiy and accounting reasons, is encrypted PPPoE. If I want the ethernet port on one ...

hitek146

I am trying to build an EoIP tunnel on top of an existing PPPoE link, and then transmit my target traffic(which is just http traffic, for now, with no PPPoE tunnel) directly through the EoIP tunnel.

Hitek

hitek146

Yes, I have.... The PPPoE tunnel that the EoIP tunnel is being created over has an MTU of 1488, but I have tried many different MTUs, and that should not matter anyway to an EoIP tunnel, as the EoIP tunnel's job is to deal with outside tunnels that are smaller than the packets that travel through th...

hitek146

The MTU for the EoIP tunnel is 1500. Our working EoIP links are configured like this: Radio on each end is assigned a static IP address, for example 10.1.1.1 at the AP and 10.1.1.2 at the station. PPTP server is configured on AP end, and a user account(secret) is created that assigns an IP address t...

hitek146

I agree that the problem is not strictly related to noise, but it does get worse when noise is introduced, as can be expected. I do have the same problem, although less frequent, on our links that are way out of interference range, over stretches of land that have nothing on them.....

Hitek

hitek146

After a little more experimentation, this does seem to be a noise related issue. It would be more easy to troubleshoot on our end, however, if we had a noise level reading. The noise level is immediately available in the linux Atheros drivers, so why can't we see the readings in MT? It would help us...

hitek146

has anyone actually sent some supout.rif files to support? i don't see any coming from rc10 You can probably see this in many of the supout files I have sent in the last few weeks, even those that were sent to you for other reasons, because it does happen frequently.... If I am not mistaken, I have...

hitek146

It does happen on our shorter, stronger(55-60dB) links, also, just not nearly as often....

hitek146

I am having this problem also, and it seems like it happened around the time of rc7 or so... This happens quite often between our longer backhauls, so it seems like it may be due to noise. Sometimes it can happen 3 to 5 times in a 20 minute period, other times it only happens every few hours. What's...

hitek146

I have tried to set up two different EoIP tunnels over PPPoE links in two different scenerios, and in both cases, I can ping any website in the world from the far end of the tunnel, with DNS resolution through the tunnel, but browsing the web does not work. Our backhaul uses a both public and privat...

hitek146

-30 means -30dB of signal. The Decibel(dB) represents a relative value, where "0" does not mean "no signal". What the Decibel is actually relative to is determined by the letter placed after the "B" in "dB", which is assumed to be an "m"(dBm) if no o...

hitek146

The Atheros chipset card's driver will let you set the output power to anything you want(within range) by simply typing it in. I have only briefly experimented with the Prism radios, but did not see any obvious way to alter it's output power. There was an option in the Prism configuration for "...

hitek146

I just noticed one of our backhaul links between two of our version 2.9 towers dropped momentarily. When I looked at the log, it said that it "lost connection to 00:0B:6B:35:2C:40, got disassoc: class 3 frame received (7)".... This is very similar to the same message I get when I try to Ra...

hitek146

Of all the boards that I have experienced this problem with, none were overclocked....

hitek146

if you plug off the power and plug it back - is everything fine then? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't..... Also, all of the boards I have had this problem with were using only one CM9 at a time. I have also run dual SR5s in RB5xx turned all the way up, with no problems.... I have one board now ...

hitek146

He said 1km radius, through trees and walls, to non-stationary clients with low powered radio cards driving low-gain omni-directional antennas..... Not gonna happen. Although our system uses dedicated client hardware at each customer location, our service laptops are configured to connect to our tow...

hitek146

What do you consider stable? Does it "become" stable once the two "rc" letters are removed from the name??? :D I consider the 2.9 platform to be very stable, and I feel it has been for the last several release candidates. What I mean by stability is: Does it have any memory leaks...

hitek146

Hello, I'm using 2.9rc7(8?), and am having a problem with wireless MAC authentication. It seems that after rebooting the AP, a wireless client cannot connect if it is simply in the Radius server, the client must be in the access list. If the client is only listed in the Radius server, the AP sends t...

hitek146

Mikrotik just corrected a nearly identical problem(possibly the exact problem you are having) in RouterOS version 2.9rc7. Have you tried this?

hitek146

I also updated one of my other towers to rc8beta, and it now continuously dials and disconnects the PPTP tunnel on the backhaul. The PPTP tunnel was working fine before I upgraded the tower, and after upgrading the client, the connection just logs in and then immediately disconnects, even though the...

hitek146

AR5213 is the name of the chip, and AR5004x is the name of the chipset, which also includes the AR5112.... Chipset AR5004x contains: 1) AR5112 ROC(Radio on Chip) 1) AR5213 Processor/Controller The AR5213 chip sits "between" the AR5112 and the rest of the system, so the system only "se...

hitek146

yes. In the result, the signal is even stronger on both radio. I used 2 different power radio. The secret is we add some rf component or device after radio to seperate the signal within the same antenna. It is not a diplexer, anyway, diplexer is for 2 different frequency channel and the price is so...

hitek146

I have seen this occur exactly one time, also....

hitek146

please send an email to support@mikrotik.com with support output file that is made when you have these problems and also these wireless disconnects. It is possible that these wireless disconnects could be the reason why you have these pppoe problems. Uldis, I would think that the PPPoE/PPP module s...

hitek146

Having been a huge victim of the PPPoE connection issue(that would "lock out" a PPP account if it tried to connect too many times rapidly), I installed the RC7 update to our towers. I do see that the problem is no longer occuring, but it is becoming apparent to me that the problem is not o...

hitek146

You have probably not bridged the wireless AP_Bridge interface to the ethernet interface that connects to your linux box.... /interface bridge add name="AP_Bridge" disabled=no /interface bridge port set ether1,wlan1 bridge=AP_Bridge /ip address add address=x.x.x.x/x interface=AP_Bridge As ...

hitek146

I see that side two seems to work well, while side one does not. Have you determined if the problem with side one follows the OS version, or if it is because the Routerboard is a slower platform? In other words, does the PC-based router show the same problems as the Routerboard router when you upgra...

hitek146

I am using a PPPoE patch that MT sent me for 2.9rc6 which corrected my problem, and I wonder if it would also correct the problem that you are having. They told me the patch will be part of the next release, which should be available at any time. Having exhausted other options(besides hopefully gett...

hitek146

Possibly with some trickery, but probably not... DHCP and PPP weren't really made to work with each other. Generally speaking, a DHCP server is going to want to see the MAC address of each client that wants an address, and this is not something that the PPTP server is immediately prepared to supply ...

hitek146

DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO UPGRADE WITHOUT LOSING LICENSE :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :?: There is no standard update procedure that looses your license. If your update period has not expired, then any upgrade should keep your license. There is no special procedure to keep your license, it does it au...

hitek146

It would also be an issue if the Access Concentrator remained running, but the clients lost network connectivity and logged off. If the network connection were to be restored, and all the clients tried to log back on again immediately, I could see this being a problem..... Also, NathanA, you didn't ...

hitek146

I can see how this would be a large issue.... I'm sure that you don't want to use version 2.9, since it is not in full release yet, but I am curious if this behaviour occurs on version 2.9, since it is very different code from 2.8.x.... Have you tried 2.9, by any chance? Hitek PS: Sorry, I've no sol...

hitek146

What is the web page for your web cam?

we have a few running as test runs, nothing exciting, but working on them slowly

http://www.yobbo.co.nz/webcams.htm

Live cam offline???

hitek146

Yes, that is correct. Also, if you would be using RADIUS, you are supposed to be able to use "Rate-limit" to specify both data-rates as one parameter, or "Ascend-data-rate" and "Ascend-xmit-rate" to separately specify the receive and transmit data rates, old style... Ma...

hitek146

It's now working properly. In fact, it was working properly before, the effects were just not apparent when using the built-in bandwidth test.... Can you not find the "Limits" tab of a profile in Winbox? Or can you not see "rate-limit" as an option when you type "ppp profile...

hitek146

Now I am using various release candidates of 2.9... It was only two machines that I had your problem on, though, as it was two license keys that were improperly generated for me. Once I got the corrected license keys and installed them, the two systems upgraded to 2.9 just fine. I don't know that yo...

hitek146

I wasn't using a Routerboard, either... That was my point. I had been incorrectly given a Routerboard serial number to use on a PC based MT. The Routerboard serial number worked when using version 2.8, but would fail when I tried to upgrade to 2.9.....

Hitek

hitek146

I use 128 bit encryption on all of my PPPoE links, and I can tell you that the encryption does consume a substantial amount of overhead. I have been impressed with the power of the new RB532, but after my experiments, I would still never run an MT AP as an encrypted PPPoE Access Concentrator on anyt...

hitek146

In particular, there are still problems with PPPoE users.... I was just made aware that they have found the problem that myself and others are having with PPPoE, and they have corrected it in the next release. Ponline, what is the specific problem that you are having?

Hitek

hitek146

It should be either unlimited, or 500 users, and not less....

Mikrotik has already said that they do not recommend using an MT box as a full RADIUS server, though.....

Hitek

hitek146

I think CCQ is the quality of the signal. If this is below about "3" for me, I cannot transfer data with any decent reliability.... The TX signal is just a reflection of the signal strength at the other end of the link.....

Hitek

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I have done many tests with this, and all seems to work as it is supposed to for me.... I can raise or lower each end of a link, and see the changes reflected on the other end..... I just did this the other day, in fact, to recreate the PPPoE phantom connection problem for MT... I lowered the TX pow...

hitek146

I wonder if this problem is related?

http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=3687

Hitek

hitek146

I had a similar problem, and it was because the key I had been using was for a RB532, even though it worked in version 2.8......

hitek146

You should use the rate-limit parameter in version 2.9. In Winbox, this is found in the "Limits" tab of the profile. I haven't gotten it to work correctly, though, as it seems to apply the first rate that I specify to both TX and RX, even if I specify both of them....

hitek146

You could also use a DC-DC converter(which is a switching regulator, as opposed to a linear regulator, and will run at closer to 100% efficiency), powered off of the 12 Volt PCI supply line, such as this one that costs about $40US..... This would supply enough current for all four cards on an RB14.....

hitek146

maybe add external power source to sr-2/5 ? on the amp specs card could give us about 31dB output power at 5V (2,4GHz 11b) :shock: :shock: :shock: btw i have done some testing with two SR5 and two SR2 on RB 14 (same time of course) and all was working fine, but that was only test without any transm...

hitek146

have you reported this to support@mikrotik.com which a support output file witch is made right after the disconnect?

No , I haven't, because they are working on much more important problems for me right now, and I do not want to distract them.....

Hitek

hitek146

I have one backhaul link that sometimes disconnects every three hours, like clockwork.... It doesn't do this all of the time, and the same thing happens no matter what frequency that I use.... Has anyone heard of this happenning before?

http://www.xceltechnical.com/images/log.jpg

Hitek

hitek146

Keep hitting the connect button over and over again.....

hitek146

RADIUS is just an authentication and accounting database, used to store information for easy retrieval by other devices on a network. It's main talent is to efficiently store information about network devices, and not necessarily to make it easy for you to see. While you can look directly at your RA...

hitek146

Did you make sure that this has not already been corrected in 2.9rc6?

hitek146

I don't know how your bridge is going to handle broadcasts, so the usability of DHCP would be questionable. I route everything, and never bridge, so someone else might be more help to you....

Hitek

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That's what I was wondering.... If RADIUS is working, then you should not be looking at your registration table any longer for information. This is what the front-end of the RADIUS server is for. It enables you to see logged in MAC addresses, names, IP addresses, and just about any other information...

hitek146

With hotspot, the data rate is limited at the terminating device. Since a CB3 or Deliberant bridge cannot terminate a hotspot point of access, the bridge cannot be data rate limited with hotspot. You would be able to do this if you used an MT as a bridge, because you could use an EoIP tunnel over a ...

hitek146

So the question remain... If you plan to authenticate and rate-limit using hotspot authentication, then why do you need to MAC authenticate in the first place? At what point are you wanting the hotspot connection to terminate, the bridge or the client's computer? If you want the hotspot connection t...

hitek146

Maybe I'm not understanding your question, but are you asking if you can get your registration table to show the name of the user(as a comment or otherwise) along with the MAC address, so that the registration table reflects active MAC addresses and owner's names whether they were authenticated with...

hitek146

Maybe others would not waste their time and money on getting one of those cards. Am I correct in thinking that I wasted a week of time waiting to get this card, and it truely cannot be used as an access point? I don't think most people would have tried to use a Cisco card in the first place, as the...

hitek146

That is why you use your RADIUS server with a "front-end".... We use OptiGold.....

Hitek

hitek146

Why would you want to authenticate the bridge? A hotspot's traffic is somewhat insecure by nature, and the idea of a hotspot is to let user's easily log in to an AP that doesn't already know who the client is. The idea of using MAC authentication with a hotspot is to let known users connect to the h...

hitek146

It's VERY hot here in texas. I'm guessing something along the lines of the surface of the sun. What's going on with the board temp?

I'm a lot further north in Texas than you, so my temps aren't quite so bad...

You're not using I-Openers for MT boxes, are you????

hitek146

jan/15/2000 10:50:58 wlan2-S3: 00:02:6F:34:C3:52 disconnected jan/15/2000 10:51:01 wlan2-S3: 00:02:6F:34:C3:52 connected jan/15/2000 10:51:09 wlan2-S3: 00:02:6F:34:C3:52 disconnected jan/15/2000 10:51:10 wlan2-S3: 00:02:6F:34:C3:52 connected jan/15/2000 10:51:36 wlan2-S3: 00:02:6F:34:C3:52 disconne...

hitek146

Oh, yea... I did see that.... I think it meant that the 5 Volts is for the amplifier when using 802.11 a mode. It's still the same chipset, so a large portion of the current draw should already have been compensated for in the requirements of the built-in amplifer. In other words, if a separate ampl...

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They are still working on it... They just emailed me yesterday asking for a more detailed log of the events during the occurence of the problem, which I was just able to capture and send them. I guess it will be Monday before they get it, though, since it is the weekend there.... I have been able to...

hitek146

Ummm... I think that the "III" in "Mini-PCI IIIb" means that the card uses the 124 pin connector, as opposed to the 100 pin connector of the older cards, and the "b" or "a" refers to the dimensions of the circuit board... :D The CM-9 is a "IIIb" boar...

hitek146

Or you could put the SRs into only four or five of the eight slots on a RB18..... :D Or you could use only one SR radio per regulator, and then pair it with a low-powered radio, so that you have a low-powered radio and an SR radio on each regulator, which would be 5 watts or less per pair if you did...

hitek146

I have had the same problem, even after trying every parameter selection that I could think of. I first noticed the problem on RC4, but it seemed to work fine on older boards running RC2(I don't know the Bootloader versions that they came installed with). I tried a RB512 today, and I could not get a...

hitek146

Like Normis said, this is the wrong place, but since you are here, I can answer your question, as I was just recently working as a broadband engineer(that has an EE degree :) ), and have installed many CMTS routers.... According to the DOCSIS specification, which calls for a certain amount of backwa...

hitek146

I think I read somewhere that a CF mini hard drive(or CF card) installed in the CF slot on the RB532 could be used as an secondary drive to the NAND storage....

hitek146

If I am not mistaken, web-proxy requires a separate second hard drive connected to the system for it to operate.....

Hitek

hitek146

Clients are using pheenet 118c+ or D-Link DWL 520+ and they have very good signal, as I said from 6 AP's it only worked on 1 AP without problem! It's not signal problem for sure. Average signal strength is -70, many of them have -60 but not even one could connect. In B mode is working superb, but m...

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I was told at one time that Netinstall did not work on the Routerboard 532, so I assumed that it must be done using a master CF card or through the serial port using one of the ?-modem protocols... Since the RB512 has no CF slot, though, it must be through the serial or ethernet port. I suppose it's...

hitek146

After reading thier description, I gathered that they used every single bit of bandwidth that their radios could consume, and then ran as many radios side-by-side as they could, and then doubled that using both H and V polarization.... So I imagined, using the newly claimed 108mbps/per channel MIMO ...

hitek146

Can MT bond interfaces for aggregated bandwidth? We want to establish 3 T1 circuits between two points and realize an aggregated throughput of 4.5Mb/s. Is this possible with MT on one or both sides? This is definitely possible; people are doing it all over the place.... Mikrotik actually sells one ...

hitek146

More than two weeks ago(some time before the release of RC6), I explained the symptoms of this problem in detail in the following posts: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=3464 http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=3515 I had sent a supout.rif file at the time, captured as soon as I notic...

hitek146

You are probably not going to find any, as the power output of the SR series cards is advertised way too high to be allowed to be used by consumers. The FCC only allows the high-powered device to be licensed if it built to be used exclusively in commercial wireless equipment, and specifically not fo...

hitek146

I use a similar configuration on our towers, using Intel motherboards with RB532 clients... RAM or not, I can tell you that I tried this configuration on a RB532, and it just doesn't have the power to encrypt/decrypt the data in real time for anymore than a few clients at a time with any decent band...

hitek146

That would depend on what you wanted to dst or src nat.... Usually, since the client devices would be considered directly connected to one of the AC's interfaces, I would think that you would use the remote address.....

Htiek

hitek146

In my wireless network, to see disconnects and reconnects, I have to look at the log of the client device. On the Access Point, I only see the reconnects. I think this is because the AP doesn't consider a client disconnected until it's time-out value has been reached, and the client is reconnecting ...

hitek146

WINS works without a Primary Domain Controller, but you must manually set the master-browser status of each higher-ranked workstation in the workgroup in each of the higher-ranked workstation's and server's registries. By ranking, I mean the machines that Windows considers to be higher on the it's l...

hitek146

EoIP would work for this, but if you didn't want to bridge the network segments through the router, you might consider investigating Proxy-ARP. I'm not sure it would help in your situation, but it might.... http://www.shorewall.net/ProxyARP.htm http://yolinux.com/MINI-HOWTO/Proxy-ARP-Subnet.html Hitek

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Hi Guys Has anyone run 4 x Super Range 5 cards on a Four-Slot miniPCI Adapter? From what I can work out, the Adaptor has a 1 amp (2.5 Watts) regulator 1 Amp at 2.5 Volts is 2.5 Watts.... 1 Amp at 3.3 Volts is 3.3 Watts.... on it and the SR5 cards can draw 1.3 amp (4.3 Watts) give or take a mA or mW...

hitek146

Well, the problem got a little better when I assigned static IP addresses to each client, but did not go away. Now I have some screen shots from the Mikrotik Syslog Daemon. Does anyone, anywhere, have any idea at all what could be causing this? Has no one ever seen this happen before? I hate to comp...

hitek146

You are correct, using Proxy-ARP would not give you true 802.1d bridging, as there would be MAC address translation involved. I think to serve the needs of some people, though, it would suffice.....

hitek146

Unless your gateway MT router is acting as a DNS server or relay, you should use a public DNS server. That shouldn't matter anyhow, as your clients would be accessing a DNS server through the bridge. The problem I see right away is the absence of a virtual bridge interface that bridges your physical...

hitek146

The point is, I think, that several of us have successfully created and used station bridges in version 2.8.x , regardless of what the documentation says... Maybe that is why the thread was removed... It may have been the only written and explained testament to the fact that it did work well at one ...

hitek146

Since that other topic is missing, I seem to recall(correcting the possible misstatement in my post above) that someone in that missing thread said that the ARP Reply-Only setting was actually to be applied to the bridge interface, and not the wlan1 interface. I may be recalling incorrectly, though,...

hitek146

I use my APs in G-Only mode, but they will still use B modes for some reason.... Or is that because I am manually setting my data-rates.....

Hitek

hitek146

Based upon my experience as a moderator over at TV-Cards.com, I would suspect that the "wisp-equipment.com" account has been frozen or removed for some reason, and the topic quarantined to this board's hidden moderator forum for private discussion or review by the moderators.... If this is...

hitek146

That's for you to decide with your vendor.... I've probably already said too much.....

hitek146

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Depending on the location, the use of a case and PoE inserter can vary, but I definitely don't use the cases that are made for the RB532. The price I quoted didn't include the case(about $8 ) or PoE injector(about $7), since they aren't always used at every location.... To answer your question, the ...

hitek146

The behaviour is definitely because of the frequent changing of data rates... Way too frequent... So frequent that they interfere with the quality of service... I've read in past threads on this forum that some of the older version 2.8 wireless packages were much more reasonable about the frequency ...

hitek146

I'm still getting duplicate logins for PPPoE connections, in spite of the fact that I have "Only One" enabled everywhere. The "ghost" connections sometimes don't show that they are using encryption, and I have encryption set to "required" everywhere, also. It seems that...

hitek146

Wirdo - I was talking about a Routerboard 532, which we use in our client devices. Buying in small quantities, we only spend about $180US for our boards with licenses, Atheros Mini-PCI cards, and pigtails all put together. At $450, you must be talking about the Routerboard 200 series....

Hitek

hitek146

If I set my "Data Rates" configuration to "Default" on a tower unit and on the client MT, my ping rates vary greatly every time. If I lock the data rates down in the "Data Rates" configuration by selecting "Configured", then the ping times immediately fall str...

hitek146

Cisco is partially proprietary equipment, and doesn't like to "play well with the other kids", so to speak.... I don't know how much Cisco 350s cost you, but you can buy RB532s for about $150US to use for client devices that are multiple times more powerful than the Cisco 350. You should a...

hitek146

Also, note that some of the specifics would be determined by the board itself, such as exactly where to cut the traces, solder the additional parts, etc., but these factors are usually easily accomodated....

Hitek

hitek146

Basically, the process would entail cutting the traces to the power supply pins at the PCI card-edge connector on the RB18, and then soldering a jumper wire from each side of one of the cut traces to a resistor and MOSFET that you have soldered to a blank area of the circuit board. A power recepticl...

hitek146

I can tell you that it should be quite easy(for someone with good soldering skills) to add an external power receptacle to the RB18, to allow it to be powered by an separate external power supply. You would simply need a few resistors and a MOSFET to switch the current on at the proper time, and the...

hitek146

HTTP is a protocol that usually trasfers data over port 80. Other types of traffic can use port 80, also, and some P2P software can be set to use that port....

hitek146

Did you try locking all of the data rates, on every radio being used, both 11a and 11b?

hitek146

I can't exactly answer your question, but I can tell you that we have run into your situation before. What we did was to leave the existing access point running, while simutaneously adding our new access point on a new frequency, using an additional antenna. We were then able to gradually upgrade ou...

hitek146

I have traced the problem back to the CPE(which was configured as a bridged repeater), and the fact that station bridging no longer works properly... Hitek EDIT: That unit acting as a bridge/repeater wasn't actually the problem, after all. Even after disabling the bridge/repeater, the problem still ...

hitek146

I don't know how much more simple you could configure a transparent bridge than to simply create a bridge and add interfaces to it. If station bridging is still supported, but is now configured differently, then it would seem that the station bridging setup has only been made more difficult to confi...

hitek146

Read the posts by forum member "wisp-equipment.com" in this thread:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php ... highlight=

Unfortunately, he says it has always worked just fine, but is broken in version 2.9....

Hitek

hitek146

Like I said before, unless you have set limits on the bandwidth internally on the test, are only running the test through the routers, or are only testing send or receive, and not both, the test results are incorrect and should not be relied upon for accuracy. I also have perfect 10Mbps links that w...

hitek146

I meant the bandwidth limit that is built in to the Bandwidth test, in the Advanced settings... As best I can tell, the Bandwidth test will ignore transmit limits external to the test, so the only way to limit the outgoing bandwidth in the test is to set those parameters in the test, but I may be wr...

hitek146

The only place that I partially use your scenario in my system is for my backhauls, when only one link is involved. In this case, I tunnel over the wireless interface with an EoIP tunnel, and then I bridge the EoIP interface to the Ethernet interface. I know that this works.... It seems like you mig...

hitek146

You should always run bandwidth tests through the test routers, and not on them, as the tests themselves add to the load on the CPU. Encryption definitely requires horsepower, maybe more than a RB can give for your needs. Did you monitor your CPU load on the test routers while running the tests, to ...

hitek146

I'm pretty sure that I have tried this myself, but I have tried so many different configurations(and yours is not one that I use, I tunnel and route everything ) that I do not recall.... :) I was already familiar with the note about bridging a wireless interface, but I'm almost certain that it still...

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Sorry... "AP Client" is "Station" mode..... You would remove any IP addresses from the two physical interfaces, and then create a "Bridge" interface. Then in the Bridge menu, you would assign the two interfaces to the new bridge as "Ports". You would then assi...

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I have found that when running a bandwidth test between an AP and a Station unit, the test will give almost all of the bandwidth to the Station device's upstream data path, leaving little for the downstream. Try limiting the TX bandwidth in your test, or better yet, run the tests through the units, ...

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I also had very inconsistent ping times, ranging from 40ms, to 4ms, and back up to 40ms, over and over again. I discovered that it was my Atheros card changing data rates on-the-fly that was causing the problem. I tried locking my links to 6Mbps, which helped alot, but I cannot get the devices to st...

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I believe that WDS only works with MT equipment, so if your AP is not MT, if probably would not work, anyhow. Do you specifically need WDS, or will standard bridging work? RouterOS supports bridging an AP client interface to an Ethernet interface, so you could try that, if it would be a workable sol...

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I haven't really had any probems reaching public NTP servers, with the exception of a few that wouldn't respond properly to the MT. When I would try a different public NTP server/address, it would then reach and synchronize... Maybe try different public servers?

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Same problem for me. RC2, RC4 ,and RC5 boards would act as NTP clients just fine to a 2.8.x system, but will not work properly once the NTP server MT was upgraded to RC4, even though Windows will still obtain the time from the upgraded RC4 MT just fine. Even though RC2, RC4, and RC5 boards will not ...

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I have one Intel tower running RC2, with RB532 clients using PPPoE with Encryption. Two of the clients on this tower are constantly pulling new IP addresses with multiple PPPoE logins, while I have all the secrets and PPPoE configurations on both the tower unit and the clients all set to only allow ...

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With our latest batch of RB532s, I see that Wisp-Router did not pre-assign IP addresses to the interfaces. Also with the latest batch, I was unable to control the OS through the serial console port. I could enter the boot loader and set options, and I could watch the board boot, but after the words ...

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I don't know why it doesn't work properly, but have you tried configuring an EoIP tunnel over each link, and then bonding the EoIP tunnels?

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It sounds like you may have been introduced to a new source of interference on your current frequency. Did you try changing the frequency to see if it helps?

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I guess I don't really understand what you are trying to do. There really should be no situation that requires bridging two local ethernet interfaces connected to the same switch, that could not also be accomplished by properly configuring a single interface.....

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I don't know how to make your ARP entries stick, but you could connect your WAN source and your LAN to a switch, and connect just one port of the MT router to that switch... Then the MT router can reach all destinations through one interface, eliminating the confustion, and the switch can handle the...

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I don't know if your problem is because of RC5, or just because of the "standard" behaviour of Atheros cards with MT RouterOS.... Almost everything that I have read that has been written by people replacing Prism(etc.) cards with Atheros cards all report significant connection issues, even...

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If you just want to start over fresh, you should download the CD Install image from the MT website and burn it to a disk. The CD will then boot up, format your flash, and install a fresh copy of RouterOS on your flash card, ready to boot. Thiis can be done on any PC or x86 SBC, and then the flash mo...

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We received our two SR5 test units yesterday, and I only briefly plugged one in to see if I could notice any differences. Under RC4, the card loaded using the same Atheros driver that was already installed for the CM9 card also present in the unit. It apparently appears to the system as a standard A...

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Since the 3rd Ethernet port is the last one to get dedicated to a non-management purpose, I use it for management at it's default address of 10.1.1.1, pre-programmed by Wisp-Router.....

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The only way you can really get "real world" test results, is to test in the real world.... Unless the environment that you are trying to simulate were to contain absolutely no RF noise, you would never be able to reproduce the conditions of a true real-world environment. If you did want t...

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The issue has been resolved. The keys were for a Routerboard 532, and the problem can be identified by the presence of the numbers "261" for the "Level" parameter of the system license menu, in case anyone has this problem in the future. Thanks go to Mikrotik and Changeip.... Hitek

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Thanks, Cmit.... I haven't needed to use it yet, so I hadn't gone looking for it. I just noticed it was missing...

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Maybe he meant, "....for the Routerboard 532". I would like to see this, also....

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Thanks! I suspected the keys might be bad somehow. The problem is, I don't know what my vendor could to that would generate different keys for the same media.... In the mean time, the guys that I had available to install the tower units could only install them today, so the units are already up on t...

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75 views, and no on has seen this happen? At least does anyone know if the system ID key is supposed to change when you format a media?

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It doesn't matter how complex your password is if someone is logging your keystrokes. ;) I agree with jarosoup, if your administrator password has been compromised, then things have already gone way too far. Best to start over. Once a system has been infiltrated to that degree, it is difficult to co...

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I just installed RC2 on two new PC motherboards for high sites. One is an Intel D845 2.4GHz motherboard, and the other an ABit VH6. I already have 5 towers running on the exact same Intel board. After loading RC2, and completely configuring each unit, I phoned into Wisp-Router to obtain my new licen...

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This has happened to me twice on two different RB532s with two different Atheros cards. It actually had me mark the first Atheros card bad, before I had it happen a second time. The second time this happened, I tried the card in another RB, and it worked. A second Atheros card then worked in the ori...

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Same thing with my posts... I assume that they would ask us to email support, but then the dialog of the conversation would not be visible here on the forum to help others.... Being a moderator at TV-Cards.com, I personally find it very important to discuss these things in public, where others can b...

hitek146

The version of RouterOS written for the RB532 is a special version, since the RB532 is a MIPS based board, and not x86 compatable. The only version of the RouterOS available for the RB532 is version 2.9....

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It is rare that a person tries to break into a backhaul link, when compared to a standard local access point, but it should still be a concern, never the less. It only takes one intruder to compromise and take down your network. Once an intruder has gotten in, they know all of your network topology,...

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I had a problem with inconsistant ping times and data rates, and I found out that it is because of a problem with Atheros cards constantly changing data rates while communicating. Once I locked the data rates to one constant rate, the ping times became perfect. This problem has been known for a whil...

hitek146

An explanation for the reported values is in the manual:

http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/in ... nt#4.13.12

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MAC filtering is more than enough! G Just so you know, it takes about 3 seconds to find out the MAC address of a given wireless device, and then another 10 seconds to use that MAC address to log into an AP that only has MAC filtering enabled. IF the AP only allows one login per MAC address, then ad...

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In my experience, if you only have a moderate noise level, you should be able to pull off 5Mbps+ on the 16km link, but you would probably need higher gain antennas for the 22km shot. I have gotten 2Mbps at 2.4GHz about 20km away from one of our towers that has a 15dB omni, while pointing a 24dB grid...

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Did you make sure that you assigned the 10.x.x.x IP addresses to the virtual bridge interfaces, and not to the physical ethernet interfaces?

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All of our towers run RouterOS. We run VPN tunnels from tower to tower for our backhaul, with EoIP tunnels running inside of them. Each EoIP tunnel on each tower belongs to a bridge interface, so that all of the towers are transparently connected to each other. The only way that I have an AP include...

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Yes, packets with a source address of 192.x.x.x(in your case) would have a path to your gateway, based on your default route, but your gateway doesn't know what to do with packets it receives from the outside that need to be sent to the 192.x.x.x subnet. You will need a route in the gateway router t...

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If you want to let the wireless clients directly connect to the subnet that routes through your EoIP tunnel, then you would want to bridge the wireless interface with the EoIP tunnel by creating a new Bridge interface, and then adding the other two interfaces to the new bridge. If you want the AP cl...

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I am looking at building a main router pc and using it for the mobo just so in can monitor it easier and run MT's RouterOS with a Cyclades dual T1 card. This will be taking this place of them over priced Cisco routers. The motherboards that we are using also work with Windows software to monitor th...

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I have had unpredictable results using CM9 cards with RouterOS. The same problems do not occur when using the card under Windows. I can be in the hills, with no electronic devices around for 10 miles, with two CM9 radios within 50 feet of each other, and still have the radio drop connections at a fo...

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UDP packets don't route like TCP packets do. If you run your BW test to the IP address on the interface that is facing you on the next router, you should see UDP packets pass. The same thing applies if you run the test through a router configured to bridge. If the router is routing, though, you may ...

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I need this also. Has Mikrotik responded to anyone that has asked for this? Even an answer if they are considering it or not????

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We are testing several RB532s as CPEs, and already have a few installed. The problem that we are having is this: On each of the RB532s that we try running the "Snooper" tool on for an extended amount of time, after some time the RB532 will disable the wireless interface in question, and re...

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I've got an EoIP tunnel running through a PPTP tunnel between two wirelessly connected RB532s, and it works great.... Just looking at your EoIP interface's MAC addresses, I see that they are not between the ranges of 00-00-5E-80-00-00 to 00-00-5E-FF-FF-FF, so that may be the problem.... See the 3rd ...

hitek146

Thanks for that, even though I didn't need to try it! After updating the box to the newest beta version, I noticed that the option was in the Winbox GUI, so it works well now.

Thanks again,

Hitek

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Yes, that is the manual that I have been using, as much as possible. Unfortunately, the configuration examples given at the end of the PPPoE section of that very manual are rejected when entered into the RouterOS. What is even worse, is that those very instructions are the one thing preventing me fr...

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I am trying to set up a mangle rule to change the MSS of my TCP packets to 1460, but the standard configuration as printed in the documentation for setting MSS is not accepted by my version of the RouterOS. Notably, it won't accept the setting "tcp-options=syn-only", and the new mangle con...

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I believe you will need your data to be unencrypted from WEP before any address negotiations will work, as the client is not able to do any IP communications on a WEP encrypted stream. You will have to make sure that WEP is properly configured on both the router/AP and the client radio, and that bot...

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