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by AJStevens
Wed Jul 08, 2020 7:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DNS Rewrite?
Replies: 0
Views: 1271

DNS Rewrite?

I got over excited when I saw the DNS improvements in the change log and updated, don't get me wrong, it's great to be able to add static CNAME records now and you can use Regex, unfortunately I don't think it quite goes as far as I would like it to. Basically, I need to do one small DNS rewrite, an...
by AJStevens
Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Connections Winbox filter
Replies: 0
Views: 647

Connections Winbox filter

Connections in Winbox (IP, Firewall, Connections), you can filter the view of active connections, and pleased to see more options have appeared in this over new versions, but still doesn't include Address Lists which would really help me. I want to filter out a list of known Destination IPs, now doi...
by AJStevens
Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Port based filtering of connections in WinBox [SOLVED]
Replies: 2
Views: 2416

Re: Port based filtering of connections in WinBox [SOLVED]

I found you only type in the port number, 443 in this case, not the IP or the slash. It is a little confusing with the "/" in "Src. Address/Port", makes you think you need to do that in formatting, I just read it as "Src. Address Port" in my head. If you do want to filt...
by AJStevens
Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Weird 129.0.0.x IPs ?
Replies: 30
Views: 7692

Re: Weird 129.0.0.x IPs ?

Noticed this as well on an RB1100AHx2 running 6.38.1, was wondering what on earth it was. Updated to latest 6.39.2, re-ran the packet capture and this time didn't see it, so hopefully fixed during one of the those updates. Ah looks like it was this latest one from June 6th, I couldn't see it at firs...
by AJStevens
Sat Dec 24, 2016 1:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Virgin Media Super Hub 3 and RB493AH no longer working together
Replies: 1
Views: 1149

Virgin Media Super Hub 3 and RB493AH no longer working together

Hello, All of a sudden, around 3am on the 21st December, my internet connection through Virgin Media Super Hub 3 stopped working. End of November I finally gave in and upgraded to the Super Hub 3 from the basic Virgin Media Modem I had clung to all this time (hearing such wonderful endorsement of th...
by AJStevens
Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RouterBoard not upgrading anymore.
Replies: 3
Views: 4425

RouterBoard not upgrading anymore.

So, after getting a bit fed up with UPnP only working with Xbox One once after power cycling both console and router board I thought it was probably due for an update since this used to work more reliably. My RB493AH was on 5.26 which is now legacy and it upgraded to 6.32.3, afterwards I also update...
by AJStevens
Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??
Replies: 23
Views: 23318

Re: DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??

You've missed the point here entirely, I'm saying it's highly unlikely to break anything given the kind of change it is, the only thing less likely to break anything is a cosmetic change, such as correcting a spelling mistake on a label in the webconfig screen for example. Correcting spelling mista...
by AJStevens
Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??
Replies: 23
Views: 23318

Re: DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??

Wow, the hostility at wanting a feature to behave more industry standard, yikes. I can't find any requirement about IP allocation direction in current http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt RFC2131-Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, so i guess MT is standard/industry compliant. Industry standa...
by AJStevens
Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:47 am
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??
Replies: 23
Views: 23318

Re: DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??

Wow, the hostility at wanting a feature to behave more industry standard, yikes. Yes, it's been this way for a long time, but it appears there was also a time it also reversed the actual IP it gave out too, which obviously was a bit of a problem. I don't really think correcting the order it assigns ...
by AJStevens
Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??
Replies: 23
Views: 23318

Re: DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??

This /might/ work: /ip pool add name=dhcp3 ranges=192.168.1.4 add name=dhcp2 ranges=192.168.1.3 next-pool=dhcp3 add name=dhcp1 ranges=192.168.1.2 next-pool=dhcp2 /ip dhcp-server add interface=LAN address-pool=dhcp1 However, that's retarded. Who gives a damn in what direction it assigns IP addresses...
by AJStevens
Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Webfig skins (tutorial)
Replies: 100
Views: 122964

Re: Webfig skins (tutorial)

We've all loved winbox, I'm sure. But being windows only was a problem. I believe we started asking for iPhone, Android apps and a linux version of winbox, it was Mikrotik who answered us and said "No, we're not doing any of those, we'll do a cross browser/os web interface, that will work almos...
by AJStevens
Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??
Replies: 23
Views: 23318

DHCP IP Pool Lease - In reverse??

I'll probably need to email support for this, but I thought I'd check on here first, I did a search and didn't find mention of this, also I can't find any info on the wiki (besides the general description). I've got a RB 493AH, with 5.1 (just updated to 5.5, still doing it), and have finally set it ...
by AJStevens
Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Winbox "freezes" sort of
Replies: 19
Views: 5683

Re: Winbox "freezes" sort of

Hope I don't get shot for bringing up an old topic, but just wanted to say I've not experienced this in quite sometime, probably since the new winbox icon version.

Hopefully no one still suffers this.
by AJStevens
Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hairpin NAT Assistance
Replies: 5
Views: 3338

Re: Hairpin NAT Assistance

Ok, more days of fiddling and.... I have two masquerade rules, one for each lan, pretty basic just Masq for the ether out interface. Then, I have a "Default Route" rule, to send any un-matched traffic (from the LANs, but NOT going to the IP Range) out through the best ISP/WAN for unknown/h...
by AJStevens
Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:44 am
Forum: General
Topic: Hairpin NAT Assistance
Replies: 5
Views: 3338

Re: Hairpin NAT Assistance

Ok.. I thought that rule fixed it, but it only applies seems to apply when communicating between the servers, if it's another client, it doesn't work...

back to the drawing board...
by AJStevens
Thu Apr 22, 2010 6:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hairpin NAT Assistance
Replies: 5
Views: 3338

Re: Hairpin NAT Assistance

I'm told Connection Tracking is the magic that enables this clever two way translation using just a DST-NAT rule. Without it, you'd need SRC-NAT rules to allow external connections to get responses from your Local servers. What I don't quite understand is why it's different externally, than if the s...
by AJStevens
Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hairpin NAT Assistance
Replies: 5
Views: 3338

Re: Hairpin NAT Assistance

ah huh, ok, think I found the added complication, was a "Default Route" Rule, basically anything no yet Connection or Packet marked, is then marked to go out my preferred heavy usage ISP by using a Packet/Routing Mark. It was sending this out there as well. setting up a log rule for dst na...
by AJStevens
Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hairpin NAT Assistance
Replies: 5
Views: 3338

Hairpin NAT Assistance

Ok, I've searched the forums (hence picking the best Subject title), read the topics, tried the rules, studied the rules, tried variations of them, read what links I can find on it... I think I now sort of understand the problem, however my issue might not be as simple as the others for which these ...
by AJStevens
Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Logging to Disk Issue / Feature Request?
Replies: 8
Views: 2025

Re: Logging to Disk Issue / Feature Request?

Can we get a mikrotik response regarding this as a feature request please?
by AJStevens
Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen
Replies: 10
Views: 2350

Re: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen

Hmm.. would really like to get to the bottom of this one. Using Packet Sniffer in the RB, I notice the connection from the RB to the VM Cable modem... however, when the page times out, nothing comes back in that interface. When the page DOES load, I notice it's coming from a different source mac add...
by AJStevens
Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Winbox "freezes" sort of
Replies: 19
Views: 5683

Re: Winbox "freezes" sort of

itchibahn, interesting, but I've not experienced this in any other application, and it happens on multiple Windows computers that I winbox from.

changeip, ok, thanks, so I'm not the only one then at least.
by AJStevens
Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen
Replies: 10
Views: 2350

Re: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen

As I thought, was because of my mangle, mark parket, mark routing rules for ensuring things that come in on a connection go back out that connection, had to exclude for 192.168.100.1 I can now reach it via 192.168.99.1, yipee! Hmm.. maybe spoke too soon... seems a bit "hit and miss" connec...
by AJStevens
Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Winbox "freezes" sort of
Replies: 19
Views: 5683

Winbox "freezes" sort of

Thought I'd report a problem I occasionally have in winbox, in case anyone else has experienced it, and maybe log it as a bug? Not always, but every now and then, when opening an existing Firewall rule to edit, I find it no longer responds to mouse clicks, and appears semi-frozen. It's quite frustra...
by AJStevens
Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen
Replies: 10
Views: 2350

Re: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen

Packet sniffer shows: in etherLan srcip 192.168.100.50 dstip 192.168.99.1 out etherCable srcip <CableWANIP> dstip 192.168.100.1 in etherCable srcip 192.168.100.1 dstip <CableWANIP> out etherCable srcip 192.168.99.1 dstip 192.168.100.50 dstmac <not the same mac as 192.168.100.50 should have, instead ...
by AJStevens
Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Logging to Disk Issue / Feature Request?
Replies: 8
Views: 2025

Re: Logging to Disk Issue / Feature Request?

Basically, in a firewall rule, you pick the log option and put in a prefix.... Then in logging set it up to log to disk with a filename. You can't log solely that firewall rule, you can only log "firewall", which is all firewall activity and not just that rule. "Prefix" in the lo...
by AJStevens
Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen
Replies: 10
Views: 2350

Re: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen

Hmm.. tried that.. it's not working, using packet sniffer, looks like it's trying to go out the cable ethernet port instead of the lan ethernet port for the client that originally tried to connect (192.168.100.50 for example) and I see in the arp a new dynamic entry for this IP on the cable ethernet...
by AJStevens
Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen
Replies: 10
Views: 2350

Re: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen

fewi sounds interesting, unfortunately mangling is new to me and I'm not confident making them from scratch, wiki examples have been a big help getting my RB working at all. Any more info or examples would be great. *Update*: Ah, routing-test is a 3.30 package right? My RB is 4.3 :/ changeip, I don'...
by AJStevens
Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen
Replies: 10
Views: 2350

Re: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen

Hi, Well, the first problem is clients in that LAN portion won't even go to the RB as they expect to find it in their local subnet. Hence, why I think I need to somehow use 192.168.99.1 and have the RB do some magic to convert that to the 192.168.100.1 on the cable ethernet port, but not upsetting t...
by AJStevens
Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen
Replies: 10
Views: 2350

Accessing VM Cable Modem Management Screen

Hi all, I'm trying to be able to access the web management screen for my cable modem... there's no visible signs of configuration, but there is plenty of useful status information. Unfortunately, it seems the IP can not be changed for accessing this, it's 192.168.100.1 (SM 255.255.255.0 I presume). ...
by AJStevens
Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Problem with an RB user account
Replies: 21
Views: 2597

Re: Problem with an RB user account

Yes, this problems sorted, I was referring to all my others :)
by AJStevens
Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Problem with an RB user account
Replies: 21
Views: 2597

Re: Problem with an RB user account

No probs, happy to help, just wish someone could help me.
by AJStevens
Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Logging to Disk Issue / Feature Request?
Replies: 8
Views: 2025

Logging to Disk Issue / Feature Request?

Ok... just spent the better part of a day banging my head on the table with trying to do some simple logging in RB.... I've got an accept filter rule for a port, does some limiting, followed by another rule to log on the same port, followed by a rule to drop excess connections. I've setup rules and ...
by AJStevens
Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Problem with an RB user account
Replies: 21
Views: 2597

Re: Problem with an RB user account

Yep, that's looking better now. It's still selectable/highlightable, and there's still a right-click option with copy, but it no longer appears to update the clipboard, pasting simply pastes the previous content of the clipboard. Could you test with SIW Eureka? I don't have the ability to install 4...
by AJStevens
Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Problem with an RB user account
Replies: 21
Views: 2597

Re: Problem with an RB user account

Yep, that's looking better now. It's still selectable/highlightable, and there's still a right-click option with copy, but it no longer appears to update the clipboard, pasting simply pastes the previous content of the clipboard.

Thanks normis
by AJStevens
Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Problem with an RB user account
Replies: 21
Views: 2597

Re: Problem with an RB user account

fewi, doesn't stop them looking at the keyboard of what you type. It seems to unhide or un-asterisk password fields, which granted I would have found useful at times in routers I'd not accessed for a while, but overall find the security of never being able to read a password field more valuable. Und...
by AJStevens
Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:08 am
Forum: General
Topic: Problem with an RB user account
Replies: 21
Views: 2597

Re: Problem with an RB user account

nest, then what is the point of the "sensitive" option for user group that enables the user to untick "Hide Passwords" without write access? Most kit distinquishes between read access and read + password, of course usually you're not able to read a password, only set a new one, c...
by AJStevens
Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Problem with an RB user account
Replies: 21
Views: 2597

Problem with an RB user account

I'm trying to setup a login for my RB, that could just view my firewall config, and no see sensitive info like passwords. So, I made a new group, ticked only what it needed I thought, "read, winbox", and created a user and added it to this group. I login with it, and sure enough the "...
by AJStevens
Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:16 am
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Dynamic DNS Script (No-IP and others)
Replies: 7
Views: 22651

Dynamic DNS Script (No-IP and others)

Hi all, was surprised after hunting around to find no GUI in winbox for DDNS, and after reading, come across several scripts. So, I figured it was simple enough, and I had some code to go on already, I'd thought I'd come out with another variation. 95% of this script is from others, so big thanks to...
by AJStevens
Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:00 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Automated Usage Monitor script - no usermanager required
Replies: 36
Views: 27246

Re: Automated Usage Monitor script - no usermanager required

Wow, that would be so great. Yeah, could do with "Local Time" under users details in posts. - two LANS | No problem the simple queues just go by whatever IP's you wish to track Well, anything from those two LANs basically, the report also needs to split into the two LANs and list IPs under...
by AJStevens
Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:58 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Automated Usage Monitor script - no usermanager required
Replies: 36
Views: 27246

Re: Automated Usage Monitor script - no usermanager required

This sounds like what I need, or close to it. I looked on the Wiki and found in the Talk a new version that "on peak / off peak accounting - rate limiting when over limit - adjustable on and off peak" which sounds fantastic. I wish it was formatted though, reading through it is a little bi...
by AJStevens
Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:40 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)
Replies: 12
Views: 3703

Re: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)

Ok, it would appear that you HAVE to have a default route of 0.0.0.0/0 going somewhere without a routing mark, however it appears rules in output override this (as far as I can tell) to allow me to distribute the output from the RB.
by AJStevens
Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Newsletter #19
Replies: 20
Views: 4973

Re: Newsletter #19

Don't worry, that shake thing was meant as a joke ;) More than likely, but sadly it is used in some apps, usually as a hindrance than a useful feature, even by more than just the "ifart" apps, so sadly some developers (and users?) think it's a good idea to use it. eg. to hide the interfac...
by AJStevens
Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Newsletter #19
Replies: 20
Views: 4973

Re: Newsletter #19

I'm not sure that's the best idea. I mean you can switch from Portrait to Landscape and have the interface adjust, say landscape is better for configuration and portrait for monitoring? Plus you can rotate it landscape left, landscape right, for different screens, etc It would be nice to be able to ...
by AJStevens
Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Newsletter #19
Replies: 20
Views: 4973

Re: Newsletter #19

I agree a better web interface is a great idea, I would still very much like to see a (i)winbox for iPhone as it has wifi/3G, touch screen, landscape accelerometer and notifications which would make for an excellent config and monitoring tool for admins which a web interface could not do, or do as w...
by AJStevens
Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:49 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)
Replies: 12
Views: 3703

Re: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)

Hi fewi, Setup a RouterBoard and don't have any 0.0.0.0/0 non-marked route, instead have one with a Routing Mark of "ISP". Configure DNS and remote requests, and NTP and a time server. Now, setup your PC to use the RB as it's DNS server (if it isn't already). You'll find you can't get anyw...
by AJStevens
Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:46 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)
Replies: 12
Views: 3703

Re: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)

"your" being traffic from the LAN going through the RB, not the RB's DNS/NTP requests, I take it. My topic is about DNS/NTP FROM the RB itself, I'm trying to avoid using default route of 0.0.0.0/0 without a routing mark. It appears, unless I'm wrong, there's no provision for controlling/ma...
by AJStevens
Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:03 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)
Replies: 12
Views: 3703

Re: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)

Thanks ibersystems, but isn't that affecting traffic from your LANs?

I'm talking about DNS and NTP requests from the RouterBoard/RouterOS itself.
by AJStevens
Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:14 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)
Replies: 12
Views: 3703

Re: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)

Thanks skillful, I've tried an output rule, but nothing seems to be going through it, no bytes increase. I've got a list of the ISP servers, and created Dst. Addresses for them, and set that in the rule, since it's specfically for these IPs, I want it to be given that packet mark which will send it ...
by AJStevens
Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:36 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)
Replies: 12
Views: 3703

Re: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)

I've looked at the two Wiki topics for Nth load balancing, but nothing mentions the RB's traffic (DNS requests, NTP Client requests etc.), other than to put in a basic default route, which I don't really want to do. It'll have multiple WANs/ISPs, and I really want to lock specific traffic to those W...
by AJStevens
Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:26 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)
Replies: 12
Views: 3703

Can you mangle traffic from RB itself? (DNS, NTP etc.)

Ok, decided to rewrite this, since I've learned a little more in a few hours. Basically, I want to avoid having to have a default route of 0.0.0.0/0 through a specific pppoe connection, because I have two and doing Nth balancing over them, and want ALL traffic to do this, including that generated by...