We are operating a hotspot with 20 to 30 clients connected at any one time. Sometimes we hear complaints that “the network is slow”. We are now trying to determine what bottlenecks we have on our network. One of the limiting factors is the wireless card. The question we like to ask the forum is if t...

Hi all
It is not clear to me what traffic is processed in a simple queue if I specify as Target parameters an interface name and in addition one or more IP addresses. Is it only the traffic on that interface with the specified IP addresses?

I am using Layer 7 / skypeout protocol (together with skypetoskype) in Mangle to identify Skype traffic to give it a higher priority in the queue tree. This works fine, except that skypout also picks up online videos (Youtube and others). I am therefore looking for a way to identify online videos to...

After further investigation I have now found that the problem with excessive number of PCQs only occurs if under Bridge / Settings the square "Use IP Firewall For PPPoE" is ticked.

Here is further information to the previous post "v5.6, pcq generates excessive number of subqueues". I downgraded to v5.0rc1 and then upgraded again to v5.0rc7. It turns out that the problem described in the previous post was not present in v5.0rc1, but was present in v5.0rc7 and behaves ...

After upgrading from v4.17 to v5.6 we noticed that the pcq's were generating at times large numbers of subqueques. The screen shot below shows 418 subqueues in the queue ″Upload / Priority-Low-Up″. There were only a few active clients connected at the time (<10). Excessive number of subqueues only o...

We have a situation where hosts from several different networks are passing through a router for traffic shaping. The networks may be, e.g., 20.0.80.0/24, 20.0.81.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24. We are using pcq's such that each host gets an equal share of the available bandwidth. With v4.x the system worked ...

Hi Gareth

After upgrading to V5.6 we are experiencing a similar problem with the pcq as you described here.

Has there been a resolution to that problem and, if so, could you provide more info?

Hi all On the head section of the script editor page as well as on the Scheduler one finds under the title "Policy" the terms reboot, write, test, sniff, read, policy, password and sensitive. I found a brief description of these terms on http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Scripting, but it is n...

I installed v4.5 in a spare board RB433AH and pressing the button Clean Drive shows the same error message as I described in my first post.

Thank you Sergejs.
One more question. When I press the Clean Drive button, the message "All disk data will be lost! Clean anyway?" appears. Does that mean that only the files which are not needed are removed, or does it also remove the firmeware, which would then require a new install?

Hello Sergejs
Here are the requested data: Since submiting my post I upgraded to v4.2. The behaviour is as before.

Hi all There used to be about 30 MB of free HDD space out of the 61.4 MB, which was plenty for uploading a new firmeware for upgrade. Now something happened and the free HDD space is only 12 MB. Under Files there are only about 100 kB of data listed. To free more HDD space I went to Stores / Disks a...

Hi normis,

The erroneous login behaviour is repeatable. I suggest you have somebody repeat the test I described in my post on 25.09.09. Just make sure the network setting on the PC is "Obtain an IP address automatically".

I am experiencing the same problem as reinerotto. The ROS version is routeros-x86-3.30.npk. I played around to see under what condition the problem with hotspot login occurs. Here is the sequence in detail; it may help the MT people to locate the problem. 1. Open Internet Explorer and enter a web ad...

Thank you CHAGEIP!
The router works now without masquerading. I put a static route in the adsl router with 10.0.100.0/24 as destination and 192.168.3.12 as gateway.

To: changeip Thank you for your response. I am not an expert on routing and therefore I would appreciate if you could be more specific on what needs to be done on the adsl router and the MT router. To your question: I don't think the adsl router has a route back to the 10.x network. Would that be po...

Hello experts

I was hoping to get some more specific answers to my question.

Simply turing off masquerading and letting the ADSL router do it does not work. Maybe the way routing is set up is not sufficient and here I would appreciate some advice.

We are operating an MT router RB 433, software version v3.22, with wireless and hotspot function enabled and with the number of clients varying from a few up to 40. The public side of the MT router is connected to an ADSL router for internet access and to an FTP server. For bandwidth control we are ...

Why does hotspot require masquerading even so on the public side of the router we are still on a privat network?

Thank you changeip!

On our hotspot we use masquerade instead of src-nat. But I am not sure if it will solve your problem with internet access.

I wrote a script that sets a parameter, reads another parameter and prints (using :put) it to the terminal. When I run the script from the terminal (>system script run <file name>) then everything works fine. However, when I run it from the scheduler or when I press the "Run Script" button...

Here is a follow-up question from my problem posted on 14.4.09 In order to use Web Proxy Cache and DNS Cache when the Hotspot is turned off I added a dst-nat rule to redirect port 80 traffic to the proxy port. With this, web and DNS data get cached. However, static DNS entries I made in IP / DNS / S...

Thank you skillful! It worked fine.

When using the Hotspot function, Web Proxy Cache and DNS Cache work fine. However, when the Hotspot is turned off, no data get cached. What do I need to do to use cache without the Hotspot? We are using an RB433 with ROS v3.22.

Thank you mrz!

Hi Fellows,

I am just curious. How do you make a switch rather than a bridge?

When marking packets in Mangle, normally one marks first the connection and then in second rule uses the connection mark as the selection criterion to mark the packet. In some Wiki articles they use in the connection rule as an added criterion "Connection State = new" and in some not. Spec...

We have set up a hotspot using a MikroTik router. Everything works fine, but we noticed that each client recieves two IP addresses, one is listed under DHCP Server / Leases and the other under Hotspot / Active. Is that normal?