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by gianluca
Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:23 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: power supply problems
Replies: 6
Views: 2992

Thanks a lot Odie,

which model do you use ? is there needed any adaptation or jack is already the right one ? prices ?

ciao
Gianluca
by gianluca
Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:19 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: power supply problems
Replies: 6
Views: 2992

Odie,

can you put a statistic on it. I think we bought probably 60 or 70 and in a year replaced 15.

G
by gianluca
Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:31 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: power supply problems
Replies: 6
Views: 2992

power supply problems

Hi, I would like to see if anybody else have a problem like our and has found the reason or a solution. We use a power supply that we by from mk/routerboard.com (18POW 18V Power Supply) and from time to time, like once a week, we have one of these supplier that dies. We have to go to the site and re...
by gianluca
Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik Chat
Replies: 37
Views: 10966

For me the porpouse is different. Chat is a quick, live and focussed help (you explain what is your problem and people online try to help you). Forum is more relaxed, minded but goes at a different speed.

This is like photo and video.
by gianluca
Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik Chat
Replies: 37
Views: 10966

Normis, chat is interesting since one can have a quick answer 24hrs a day. This is a live support community that if well managed can take away some pression on official mk support. I agree that it would be interesting to create separate rooms with the subject that is treated inside. Otherwise you ca...
by gianluca
Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:55 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Web access doesn´t show nothing
Replies: 2
Views: 2150

it also happen to us, but not all the time. We use last version.
by gianluca
Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:06 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: sector based AP tower setup "How to"
Replies: 12
Views: 5907

Directwireless,

I am interested in the configuration of you tower with 3 sectorial antennas and roaming facility for mobile voip handset. Do you have any experiences with that ?

thanks

Gianluca
by gianluca
Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:30 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Who has running more then 25 wds boxes in a city using MT?
Replies: 22
Views: 8478

directwireless, I am interested in roaming between APs.
can you tell us more about your tests and results ?
by gianluca
Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Improved Handoff
Replies: 13
Views: 6396

but is this available on MK ?
by gianluca
Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Improved Handoff
Replies: 13
Views: 6396

do you have documentation or some indication about IAPP on mikrotik?
if you want to go off-forum my email is gianred123@yahoo.it
by gianluca
Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Improved Handoff
Replies: 13
Views: 6396

anybody with some info on it?
by gianluca
Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:19 am
Forum: General
Topic: Improved Handoff
Replies: 13
Views: 6396

this is interesting. Why do you need it, what's the porpouse ?
Gianluca
by gianluca
Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Traffic stops on PPPoE connections
Replies: 7
Views: 3063

we are giving a router with pppoe to the customers. Then we use nat and cust has an internal private network. You can find router for 15 euros.
by gianluca
Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Support for Intel pro/1000 mt duel card
Replies: 2
Views: 1442

same problem. 2.8 dont recognise it. 2.9 yes.
any help ?
by gianluca
Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:39 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: SR2 output power - please read
Replies: 51
Views: 18702

What about SR5 ? what should be the right config ?

If I go to set manually it puts 17 db on all rates. Should I put 30 ? it doesnt seem so logical...
by gianluca
Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: mobile voip
Replies: 4
Views: 1843

Hi Fernando,

of course this is interesting. Probably this is off topic on a mk forum, you can write me at gianred123@yahoo.it

asi miramos como agilizar y evitar reinventgar la rueda
ciao
Gianluca
by gianluca
Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:07 am
Forum: General
Topic: mobile voip
Replies: 4
Views: 1843

thanks a lot. Actually there are many cities built with a city-wide coverage, normally with mesh networks.

My question was about wireless voip phones and the experiences on it, with APs.
by gianluca
Sat Dec 03, 2005 6:35 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: IP video and daisy-chained links
Replies: 7
Views: 2414

can I have an idea of how do you put a video stream on the network, I mean how do you proceed in streaming a video (is this tv channel, movies, etc..), which machine is used etc... thanx
by gianluca
Sat Dec 03, 2005 6:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: cap pppoe user
Replies: 7
Views: 2242

you should use radius and manage it through a database. try php/MySQL
by gianluca
Sat Dec 03, 2005 6:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: mobile voip
Replies: 4
Views: 1843

mobile voip

we would like to set up some Ap to have a decent coverage in a part of the city and give access to the wifi voip mobile handset that are now on the market, so that people can carry their "home number and rates" also out side the appartments.

any one with similar idea or experience ?
by gianluca
Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: connection timout super long
Replies: 14
Views: 3584

good. take care.
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: connection timout super long
Replies: 14
Views: 3584

on the forward chain you can limit just emule connections to 80 and then all other to 100. so a customer will always have 20 free connections.
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: connection timout super long
Replies: 14
Views: 3584

I agree, 3 or 4 hours should be ok for most of normal applications
Gianluca
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: How do I check volume usage of a client?
Replies: 5
Views: 2011

normis, I would suggest something more robust and professional like using radius and a database like sql. with php they can also allow clients seeing the situation etc...
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: PCQ Question
Replies: 4
Views: 2525

global-in and global-out reffers to the same traffic exepct the traffic originated/generate from/to teh router itself. shaping is normally done on the one leaving a certain interface. I dont understand how a customer can have more bandwidth that the one allowed by your pcq. can you be more specific?
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: Which hardware do you use for your core routers?
Replies: 3
Views: 1806

basically every intel based Pc is ok.
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:54 am
Forum: General
Topic: can mikro tik do that
Replies: 2
Views: 2097

we do something similar with mk and freeradius. this is possible and a lot more can be done
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: P2P issues
Replies: 3
Views: 1577

p2p traffic takes a while to be detected and correctly mangled, usually firsts packets passed the p2pfilter. probably thats what you see.
you can also try to block most used p2p ports and then mangle and block p2p
Gianluca
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:51 am
Forum: General
Topic: packet rate and Bandwidth speed
Replies: 1
Views: 1457

is this packets per seconds? looks too much isnt it?
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: Limiting number of packets - MT v2.8
Replies: 1
Views: 1032

tnanks. logical and useful, we already had it implemented but in a different way.
ciao
Gianluca
by gianluca
Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:45 am
Forum: General
Topic: [FEATURE REQUEST] mikrotik graphs
Replies: 2
Views: 2691

the example of AThens is very nice. how can we set up a similar thing with the less programming/hw with mk ?
by gianluca
Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: connection timout super long
Replies: 14
Views: 3584

we use 3 hours with emulers and work fine
by gianluca
Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Emule upload vs download
Replies: 16
Views: 5163

we have some experince on it. we have hundreds of emulers. As said p2p programs gives download depending on upload. Actually we mangle the p2p-up and p2p-down traffic and limit both of them with pcq. This way we can give for instance 100kb on upload and 300kb on download to each customer. it works f...
by gianluca
Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: packets storm in a network
Replies: 3
Views: 3276

I suppose that the solution is to have smalls broadcast domains. This can be achived through:

1) VLAN
2) Routing
3) firewallimg the broadcast

n.2 is the most logical one
n.1 is also a good option

can you explain a litle bit more about rounting and EoIP ?
thnkas
by gianluca
Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ppoe and vlan
Replies: 4
Views: 1743

YOU SAY "Why not add more pppoe interfaces to listen to?"

how can I do it, since in interface pppoe-server server I can only add 1 interface to my server....
by gianluca
Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ppoe and vlan
Replies: 4
Views: 1743

thanks. u are right and I will test it.
may I contact you off list, my email is gianred123@yahoo.it
by gianluca
Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: ppoe and vlan
Replies: 4
Views: 1743

ppoe and vlan

I have a local ethernet card with a pppoe AC on it. Now I would like to segment my network with 6 vlans (and at the beginning I will still have untagged packets coming for a smooth transiction). in my tests I can brdige the vlans together but if I bridge also the ethernet card pings dont work (why?)...
by gianluca
Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik is so weak to deal with PPPoE dials simultaneously?
Replies: 9
Views: 2676

isn't possible to bridge vlans and use 1 access concentrator ?
by gianluca
Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:22 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Howto send e-mail with the result of a torch ???
Replies: 4
Views: 2942

no way about setting up a proper broadcast-storm-free network or no way about torching the machine with high traffic?
by gianluca
Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: Limewire
Replies: 1
Views: 1023

Matthew, can we get in contact through email (mine is gianred123@yahoo.it). Gianluca Thanks
by gianluca
Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: packets storm in a network
Replies: 3
Views: 3276

can anybody help me on this ?
by gianluca
Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:43 am
Forum: General
Topic: packets storm in a network
Replies: 3
Views: 3276

packets storm in a network

We probably are a lot using an all bridged network to connect our clients. we use pppoe to connect clients to our MK OS pppoe concetrator and gateway. we are having problems with storms that are blocking the functioning of the network. I suppose that with the correct rules on /interface bridge filte...
by gianluca
Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:34 am
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Howto send e-mail with the result of a torch ???
Replies: 4
Views: 2942

how did you managed to solve your broadcast storms ?
by gianluca
Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:58 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Routerboard pps?
Replies: 3
Views: 2477

good. we use rb512 with atheros cm9 for radio links point to point.
is there any limitation (I mean maybe atheros wireless card dont support so many packets).?
by gianluca
Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:53 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Routerboard pps?
Replies: 3
Views: 2477

I would like also to know if any limit is documented.
by gianluca
Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: Manual / help for bandwidth tester tool
Replies: 2
Views: 1347

i doesnt work fine the bandwidth tool for windows. maybe mikrotik can help us.
by gianluca
Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Posting tutorials or how-to's !!!
Replies: 72
Views: 26472

thank you very much, BUT it looks like this is very country-sensitive since you can probably still connect to 100% of SPANISH porn sites.... so this is not useful for us since our market is Spain
by gianluca
Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Posting tutorials or how-to's !!!
Replies: 72
Views: 26472

proxy, thanks for help.
you can publish it (if it possible) or email it to gianred123@yahoo.it
thanks
Gianluca
by gianluca
Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Posting tutorials or how-to's !!!
Replies: 72
Views: 26472

already done, cannot find it.
if you have it, you can publish it
by gianluca
Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Posting tutorials or how-to's !!!
Replies: 72
Views: 26472

what does it have to do with blocking porn sites ?
by gianluca
Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: block porn sites
Replies: 2
Views: 2193

I prefectly agree with you. We can of course pay for such a service, but for a professional company this is highly scalable, for us it would be too expensive and not complete.

I invite mk as well.
by gianluca
Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: block porn sites
Replies: 2
Views: 2193

block porn sites

it would useful to have a way to block certain types of web sites.
of course we can block it thriugh the web proxy, but maybe someoen already find a way to update the site-list or a good method to do it.

thanks
Gianluca
by gianluca
Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Posting tutorials or how-to's !!!
Replies: 72
Views: 26472

can we have again the list to block porn sites ?
thanks
Gianluca
by gianluca
Sun Oct 23, 2005 12:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: PPPOE Problem
Replies: 20
Views: 9475

a solution is to use as pppoe server also in winXP raspppoe. it dont disconnect and give no prob.
by gianluca
Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:43 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Where is WiMAX?
Replies: 1
Views: 2014

trial units are also available in Europe, from Intel. Dont know about mk plans.
by gianluca
Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:27 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Wireless test results
Replies: 12
Views: 7335

with rb500, with a level of signal of -60, what are the trhouput you can acheive and with which configuration ?
by gianluca
Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Traffic stops on PPPoE connections
Replies: 7
Views: 3063

schorsch,

many thanks, we will try this out. Actually we tested it with winpoet 6.0 and problems didnt solve.

can I asky you more things about config off-forum ?
my email is gianred123@yahoo.it

ciao Gianluca
by gianluca
Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: Traffic stops on PPPoE connections
Replies: 7
Views: 3063

we already tried to disable the complete firewall of windows but it keeps doing the same thing.
by gianluca
Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: Traffic stops on PPPoE connections
Replies: 7
Views: 3063

Traffic stops on PPPoE connections

We are using pppoe to connect WInXp customers to our MK. We have sometimes problems on the network due to the fact that 99% of our customers are connected directly with WinXP (SP1 and SP2) through pppoe to our network. Problems are: 1) disconnections, sometimes they are disconnected after a 2 or 10 ...
by gianluca
Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:42 am
Forum: General
Topic: PPPOE Problem
Replies: 20
Views: 9475

Franco, since in some cases I am having a similar problem, could you please explain the situation and how did you managed to solve it ? We are still using in an 80% windows PC directly connected to the network, and using winXP pppoe to connect them to our central mkOS server. Can we interchange some...
by gianluca
Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: firewall
Replies: 6
Views: 3524

dont know. If you look at the test server of mk you probably can find more.
but still there is not so much explanation for it
by gianluca
Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik users meeting
Replies: 34
Views: 9392

so what will be the porpouse of the meeting, anything planned ?
by gianluca
Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: firewall
Replies: 6
Views: 3524

firewall

it would be useful to have a sample of correct firewall rules for a border router to avoid attacks, viruses etc..

i know that there are some topics on the forum about virus chain ... but it would be useful to write down ALL we need to think about to protect the network.

thanks Gianluca
by gianluca
Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:36 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: send email when number of packets/second from IP is >1000
Replies: 18
Views: 15387

is there a final version of the script that looks for those IP infected and act ?
for me best action would be to block internet access and redirect them (if possible) to a local web page that comunicates thet they are infected
thanks
Gianluca
by gianluca
Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: blocking ports in bridge mode
Replies: 4
Views: 1784

exactly, since we use all wireless on 2.9 we can try to sort it out with pps excess.

if someone has any experience on it ...? thanks
by gianluca
Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: blocking ports in bridge mode
Replies: 4
Views: 1784

I would like to do the same, to block all ports of viruses and also use limit rate to block if there are too many packets per seconds (a virus attack but we dont know the port for instance).

how can i do it ?
by gianluca
Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: last activity
Replies: 2
Views: 2361

yes, this is what the manual says.
BUT I would like to know practical aspects of it. Real life experiences .... feedback, which values are good or not so good....
by gianluca
Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: last activity
Replies: 2
Views: 2361

last activity

what this parameters indicates exactly ?

in our PtMP we have it that goes up to 0.010 or 0.150.
in PtP it stays at 0.000

is it normal, or what is the explanation of it ?
by gianluca
Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PoE problem
Replies: 11
Views: 3373

of course I tried with another poe splitter. Cable is ok since we changedthe RB and worked fine with new one.
by gianluca
Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PoE problem
Replies: 11
Views: 3373

this is a little bit different since it involves a swicth demaged by poe.
by gianluca
Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Collect Data
Replies: 10
Views: 2467

i suggest to use pppoe and save the logs
by gianluca
Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PoE problem
Replies: 11
Views: 3373

we had a static electricity storm 15b days ago and the 2 rb230 in a tower stopped working. So we went there and we had the same as you: 1- the poe injector had the green (the only light) blinking at a cosntant pace 2- but unplugging the cable of the LAN and leaving the poe, the light stopped blinkin...
by gianluca
Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:09 am
Forum: Scripting
Topic: global-in & global-out
Replies: 4
Views: 4041

the typical case is where you have hundreds of pppoe user on your local network and 1 connection to your ISP (public interface). So you are trying to shape traffic of all pppoe interfaces (virtual interfaces on your local physical interface), there you need the global-in/out. As the shaping on a phy...
by gianluca
Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:03 am
Forum: General
Topic: VoIP Priority...
Replies: 9
Views: 4057

thanks for the explaination but of course I already know what you say, I hav ethe same question, I see 3 different ways of mangling and it would be nice if someone would explain it to us: 1) mark directly the packets and then use this packet flow in the queue 2) mark connection and then mark the pac...
by gianluca
Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: VoIP Priority...
Replies: 9
Views: 4057

what king of QoS do you mean? I dont know the difference between marking packets and connection only.
by gianluca
Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: VoIP Priority...
Replies: 9
Views: 4057

do you mangle the connection of the SIP and then the flow, or just the connection ?

I mangle the connection and then the flow of this connection, then putting in queue the flow, and sometimes we have problems....
by gianluca
Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik users meeting
Replies: 34
Views: 9392

ok many thanks. Gianluca
by gianluca
Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik users meeting
Replies: 34
Views: 9392

I think this is a very good idea.
Just one question, probably for us coming from the western europe, it would be a lot cheaper and faster if the meeting would take place in a big capital like Paris, London, Barcelona, Rome etc.. where low cost flight can go.

Or ... is there any low cost to Prague ?
by gianluca
Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:10 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: lost my map
Replies: 0
Views: 2183

lost my map

I have added several items on the dude and worked fine for a while, but then 1 day we had a problem with the electricity and the pc got shut off in 1 sec. before that I was closing and opening the program without problems, and all elements were present on the dude map. after the electricity problem ...
by gianluca
Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Does some P2P use http?
Replies: 14
Views: 3871

dont understand what you say. if you can mangle the kazaa traffic (recognise it) then dropping or limit it is the same work.

can you explain it better ?
by gianluca
Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: virus port list
Replies: 18
Views: 11539

we are thinking about a deeper solution: pass all the traffic with a rule called virus (that checks all viruses with the rules here explained) we also limit the maximum connection per src-address to 120, so if a virus is opening a lot of connections this fill the connection and the customer cannot u...
by gianluca
Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Access to a MT winbox behind another MT
Replies: 2
Views: 1767

awacenter, if yoou finf a way, please publish it thanx
by gianluca
Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: virus port list
Replies: 18
Views: 11539

that's what I am saying....
by gianluca
Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Does some P2P use http?
Replies: 14
Views: 3871

I can say the same, I still have a 2.8.23 and p2p filtering works fine for me.
Of course the client can change the port to 80 or another, but MK mangling is based on patterns and not just ports.
by gianluca
Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: virus port list
Replies: 18
Views: 11539

I suppose that p2p programs (like emule or edonkey or bittorrent) can also use these ports so that blocking virus like that can also block the peer to peer program.

any experience on it?
by gianluca
Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: E-mule low ID problem !
Replies: 5
Views: 2691

the solution pass through using dst-nat with 1 tcp and 1 udp port to each client (with fix ip address of course). Then they have to enter these port numbers in their emule/edonkey programs.

OR ... use public IPs
by gianluca
Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: is it safe to upgrade to 2.9 rc6
Replies: 6
Views: 2676

what problems do you have ponline ?
by gianluca
Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Probelms with RB532 on Ether1
Replies: 10
Views: 3430

well, we tried it all in our tests with RB500 and RC4 and RC5 (not yet RC6).
but it didnt help at all.

and if we have 2 different hardware and same problem, maybe is the mk software ?
by gianluca
Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: Probelms with RB532 on Ether1
Replies: 10
Views: 3430

are talking about setting on rb or on PC ?
and at the end did you manage to solve teh probl on rb500 ?
by gianluca
Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: Probelms with RB532 on Ether1
Replies: 10
Views: 3430

just another point:

for me if we have 20 Mb is ok, so we do not need full speed but yes at leats 2 Mb on the CPE and 20 on the base station ....
by gianluca
Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: Probelms with RB532 on Ether1
Replies: 10
Views: 3430

situation is like this on my case: we are downloading from 3 internet sites at the same time and everytime we do it with my laptop we have 320 KB/s that is exactly what we deliver as internet access. With all other PCs we just have 80 KB/s. We tried several times and this is not due to the internet ...
by gianluca
Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Probelms with RB532 on Ether1
Replies: 10
Views: 3430

apparently ether1 is using a different microprocessor. this is the difference. talking to MK support they say that I am the only one reporting this problem. now we are 2.

for me, with my laptop, we can have full speed, but with several other PCs this is very low, in some cases as low as 300kbs
by gianluca
Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Probelms with RB532 on Ether1
Replies: 10
Views: 3430

Probelms with RB532 on Ether1

We installed 3 CPE with RB532 (all bridged with cm9 5213). On the wireless side all looks ok, since we have 20 Mb/s on the PtMP. We are using of course Poe on a 5/10 meters length cable. But connecting several PC, one at each time, reveals a problem, they can just transmit or receive 500kb/s or 1,70...
by gianluca
Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RADIUS accounts by volumme
Replies: 2
Views: 1935

We successed in 2.8, and we are planning to move to 2.9, hope there is no problem, please post if you have any solution. thanx
by gianluca
Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Possible navigation bug
Replies: 7
Views: 3348

We have been testing different things but we never came across such a situation. hope there is no bug.

Gianluca
by gianluca
Tue May 31, 2005 12:24 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: RouterBoard 532 and CM-9 performances
Replies: 11
Views: 6135

we are going to install these RB532 into outddor antenna enclosure. Here summer goes up to 40 ºC and winter is around 5-10 ºC. It would be nice to have a relation or test results (if any available) about CPU settings and temperature. Also, is temperature lowing performance, i.e. at 40ºC works better...
by gianluca
Tue May 31, 2005 11:34 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: RouterBoard 532 and CM-9 performances
Replies: 11
Views: 6135

once important thing, after setting Rb must be shut down and power cable must be disconnected. after rebooting cpu mhz will be fixed to new value and you should use keep frequency to fix it forever.
by gianluca
Mon May 30, 2005 10:47 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: RouterBoard 532 and CM-9 performances
Replies: 11
Views: 6135

I tried all but my RB532 are not changing the cpu freq. it stays at 266.

I tried by console and by command. By command it says 333 but dont change in the systems resources and after reboot all back to 266

why ?
by gianluca
Fri May 27, 2005 9:57 am
Forum: General
Topic: limiting upload of peer-to-peer appz
Replies: 15
Views: 4279

Noir, how do you have the p2p configuration on your router?
by gianluca
Fri May 27, 2005 1:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: Limiting bytes in on pppoe connection.
Replies: 1
Views: 979

you need to use radius
by gianluca
Fri May 27, 2005 1:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: limiting upload of peer-to-peer appz
Replies: 15
Views: 4279

I havent found the right scheme mangle+queue-tree+queue-type to control p2p. if anybody can publish its working one ?
by gianluca
Thu May 26, 2005 12:43 am
Forum: General
Topic: limiting upload of peer-to-peer appz
Replies: 15
Views: 4279

this "pcq kinda" behaviour that we are also suffering since we started with mikrotik is not explainable.

I just hope that we are not the only ones, maybe it is a mangle trick we didnt know.

IS THERE SOMEONE ELSE WITH SAME BEHAVIOUR ???
by gianluca
Mon May 23, 2005 2:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: [Traffic Shaping] Is there a way to limit pps?
Replies: 3
Views: 1688

no, in 5GHz.

afaik there isnta way to limit pps

how many users with emule do you have ?
by gianluca
Mon May 23, 2005 2:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: anyone using Portwell routers???
Replies: 9
Views: 3310

which purpouse serves the portwell ? is a board where you put the mk os?
by gianluca
Sun May 22, 2005 12:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: [Traffic Shaping] Is there a way to limit pps?
Replies: 3
Views: 1688

actually we are suing in our backbone atheros 5211, with 150 users, probably around 30 with emule and around 1.100/1.300 pps.

works fine, even with rb230

wich problem do you see?
by gianluca
Sat May 21, 2005 11:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: anyone using Portwell routers???
Replies: 9
Views: 3310

what kind of solution is this?
by gianluca
Thu May 19, 2005 4:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 2.9 RC1
Replies: 20
Views: 7228

didnt know it was out
I do it right now
by gianluca
Thu May 19, 2005 3:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 2.9 RC1
Replies: 20
Views: 7228

I have problems with connection tracking on the RC1
if I try to set enabled=no the rb500 stops working
I can still write commands but they time out

I power cycle the rb500 and works fine, but still with con track to yes
by gianluca
Tue May 17, 2005 10:02 am
Forum: General
Topic: limiting upload of peer-to-peer appz
Replies: 15
Views: 4279

GJS

thanks for your help. I cannot see the reason you do it in this way, but do you have the same problem then us with max 6KB/s per connection limit ?
by gianluca
Tue May 17, 2005 12:10 am
Forum: General
Topic: limiting upload of peer-to-peer appz
Replies: 15
Views: 4279

Actually we are seeing the same behaviour. I shape it with: 21 ;;; P2P p2p=all-p2p action=passthrough mark-connection=p2p 22 in-interface=COG_GW connection=p2p action=accept mark-flow=p2p-down 23 connection=p2p action=accept mark-flow=p2p-up 24 p2p=all-p2p action=accept in 21 we mark all p2p, in 22 ...
by gianluca
Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE Bridging for DSL line problem with NAT
Replies: 11
Views: 3406

may I ask you how do you phisically connect the adsl to the MK ? putting in bridge the adsl ?
by gianluca
Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Que monitoring w/PRTG
Replies: 4
Views: 2332

I also have problems with prtg, the value I take form the mib browser of the number of interfaces (to see how many pppoe are connected), also without the "." is not working.

do you do it somehow?
by gianluca
Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: spyware problem
Replies: 8
Views: 2373

exactly. it is a good thing to set limit connection to a certain level. we limit to 250 the tcp connection per user. this is the instruction: add src-address=130.117.160.0/24 protocol=tcp action=drop \ connection-limit=250 comment="" disabled=no this helps a lot when a customer has a virus...
by gianluca
Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Kill PPPoE session with SNMP
Replies: 7
Views: 3389

thanks a lot Edgard. BUt we are still on the 2.8 since 2.9 is in beta and no support is given, we have seen and plaid with the 2.9 but scared on putting it on production.

so we need a solution for the 2.8
by gianluca
Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Kill PPPoE session with SNMP
Replies: 7
Views: 3389

we need at a certain point to change the profile of a customer. since we use freeradius, we can change on the database the filter and then, next time it authorise the customer, it will have the new profile. but what if dint disconect and reconect can we remove the interface of the pppoe of that cust...
by gianluca
Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: spyware problem
Replies: 8
Views: 2373

ajmal, can you publish the filter you use for virus?
thanks
by gianluca
Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: freeradius
Replies: 1
Views: 1259

freeradius

I would like to see where in freeradius (which table) are the parameters: Filter-Id - firewall filter chain name. It is used to make a dynamic firewall rule. Firewall chain name can have suffix .in or .out, that will install rule only for incoming or outgoing traffic. Multiple Filter-id can be provi...
by gianluca
Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: profile on radius
Replies: 3
Views: 1300

maybe filter-id is like ppp profile in the local database Filter-Id - firewall filter chain name. It is used to make a dynamic firewall rule. Firewall chain name can have suffix .in or .out, that will install rule only for incoming or outgoing traffic. Multiple Filter-id can be provided, but only la...
by gianluca
Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: profile on radius
Replies: 3
Views: 1300

we would like to give different services to our clients. client A has a profile A and their traffic is going through a firewall rules on rule forward /ppp .... same thing for client B this is like we are doing it with pppoe right now, assigning a different profile to customers A profile A, B..B but ...
by gianluca
Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:28 am
Forum: General
Topic: profile on radius
Replies: 3
Views: 1300

profile on radius

We are using freeRadius to autenticate the pppoe users. now we would ike to assign via radius also the profile of the users. how can it be done ? I cannot find it on the attributes...
by gianluca
Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: number of interfaces OID
Replies: 2
Views: 1492

thanks. but this is what my MIB browser give sme. must be the right one.
but the PRTG dont retreive any value at this oid, but works perfectly with all others.

this is very strange.
by gianluca
Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: number of interfaces OID
Replies: 2
Views: 1492

number of interfaces OID

i would like to monitor with snmp the amount of interfces (to see how many pppoe users are connected).

at interface the print oid dont show it
and with a MIB browser also the oid I found is not working.

I am using a windows based program called PRTG.

anybody is doing it?
by gianluca
Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: winbox
Replies: 5
Views: 2285

many thanks. now i have it and it works.
Gianluca
by gianluca
Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: winbox
Replies: 5
Views: 2285

I have been looking for it for a long time, but from where can I download the winbox?
by gianluca
Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: winbox
Replies: 5
Views: 2285

and also when connecting through the serial cable, I can see the system start up, launching services but then I dont receive on my teminal screen any login... but at the same time if I try to enter via telnet it works.

if someone has any experience on it???
thanks
by gianluca
Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: winbox
Replies: 5
Views: 2285

winbox

I have the 2.9beta16 installed on the RB500 that I just received.
This is my first time on 2.9

I try to enter via telnet, and this is ok.
But when trying via winbox (the one I use on the 2.8) I receive an error: cannot connect to port 8291.

where is the problem ?

thanks
Gianluca
by gianluca
Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:08 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: bandwidth tests script
Replies: 2
Views: 2303

bandwidth tests script

We are using several mk links on the 5Ghz as point to point for our backbone We are using almos 80% of allowed bandwith, but since this depends on the ambiental situation, we need the following: from a mikrotik run a script that, lets say every 30 mins, is launching a /tool bandwidth-test ....... an...
by gianluca
Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:06 am
Forum: General
Topic: server going upto 100% load...
Replies: 1
Views: 1004

you might say something more about your problem
by gianluca
Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:34 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: How to limit a user to a given amount of traffic?
Replies: 85
Views: 90493

thank for the help.

About enforcing a rule when they reach a quote, I probably run a script with a forward rule doing what you want to do, i.e. stop p2p .... or what else
by gianluca
Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:45 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: How to limit a user to a given amount of traffic?
Replies: 85
Views: 90493

can anybody answer on how check amount of upload/dwonload traffic with radius and pppoe users?
by gianluca
Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Redirecting users to the router home page
Replies: 3
Views: 1498

whats the sense of it?
by gianluca
Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Feature/companion software request for traffic accounting
Replies: 7
Views: 3830

Yazzy thank you very much for your answer. we already started with freeradius, there is a lot of documentation on it and looks stable.

About teh billing platform, we probably go to the optigold.
Do you have a billing platform installed and working?
by gianluca
Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Feature/companion software request for traffic accounting
Replies: 7
Views: 3830

well, we are a fix ISP (ETTH ethernet to the home) company. we would like to register our clients through radius and then have a billing system (provisioning, customer backoffice with traffic, consumption etc..). We are thinking about products like freeradius and optigold. any suggestion on a comple...
by gianluca
Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Feature/companion software request for traffic accounting
Replies: 7
Views: 3830

I agree
by gianluca
Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: hot to forbid Windows file sharing in wireless ???
Replies: 11
Views: 6097

very interesting all this. We would like to set up a file sharing system (traffic will be using pppoe to the mikrotik pppoe server concentrator).

We are thinking about Direct Connect and of course disable window sharing.

Any suggestion?
by gianluca
Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: redirect to a certain webpage just first time
Replies: 5
Views: 1981

dont understand it, ip-pool for fake ?
by gianluca
Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:29 am
Forum: General
Topic: redirect to a certain webpage just first time
Replies: 5
Views: 1981

thanks.

I suppose that then I have to write a script that use dst-nat for that new user.
but then do have to make this rule active just for 10 seconds (and what if customer starts brwosing just after 1 minute), or how ?
by gianluca
Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: redirect to a certain webpage just first time
Replies: 5
Views: 1981

any idea out there?
by gianluca
Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: IPTRAF to MySQL database
Replies: 5
Views: 3091

if there is any news on it I am interested. thanks
by gianluca
Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:29 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: How to limit a user to a given amount of traffic?
Replies: 85
Views: 90493

just one more thing. my pppoe customers take the ip from a pool.
by gianluca
Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:25 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: How to limit a user to a given amount of traffic?
Replies: 85
Views: 90493

Eugene, could you please be a bit more specific on it. I have 50 customers woth pppoe. With 3 profiles (so that I have 3 fw rules, one each profile below ppp fw rule). where should I put the rules for counting bytes? I imagine that to put an identifier on each rule, I have to base the rule on the IP...
by gianluca
Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: download amount and scheduled queues
Replies: 2
Views: 1428

hi ponline, I am interested in this idea.
we are also hardly touched by p2pers that are downloading more movies that they can see in their life! I think we are going to limit download to a certain amount of GB.

let me the evolution of your solution
thanks
Gianluca
gianred123@yahoo.it
by gianluca
Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: redirect to a certain webpage just first time
Replies: 5
Views: 1981

redirect to a certain webpage just first time

For a low cost almost free profile on pppoe we would like that our customers are redirected (or that home page ...) to a certain webpage (our webpage). This just the first time they connect (then they must be free of browsing). I have no idea on ho to do it, is it possible? (I am using pppoe, no hot...
by gianluca
Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: traffic accounting
Replies: 6
Views: 3593

we cannot ask to our "adsl-like" customers to log-in everytime.
I hope we can do it somehow. any suggestions ? how people are doing it???
by gianluca
Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: traffic accounting
Replies: 6
Views: 3593

thank you very much Edgards. I had a look at the docs and demo. Just 2 more questions, since I am a bit lost: 1- we are a fixed WISP, our customers will be soon on a pppoe connections using winxp. Can we eliminate them to introduce the username/password, can it be done automatically or they have eac...
by gianluca
Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: traffic accounting
Replies: 6
Views: 3593

traffic accounting

actually we are using several mikrotiks as firewall/traffic shaping/policy routing, still on v2.8 we would like now to set up a max 4 GByte per user limit and then ask some euros on the extra traffic each user will be consuming. We are using no radius. customers will prepay it. we will of course nee...
by gianluca
Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MikroTik DOESN'T recognize 100% of listed p2p traffic!
Replies: 7
Views: 3651

I suppose problem is that all big connections are done in udp. Canmikrotik shape udp ?
by gianluca
Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MikroTik DOESN'T recognize 100% of listed p2p traffic!
Replies: 7
Views: 3651

About the p2p we have 2 users using a client of bit torrent called BitComet. Apparently this is recognised as p2p (but not sure) but then when shaping the traffic (for instance it is limited to 180 Kb/s and works for all other clients), these 2 clients can download at 700 or more Kb/s. No way to lim...
by gianluca
Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MikroTik DOESN'T recognize 100% of listed p2p traffic!
Replies: 7
Views: 3651

Thanks Uldis,

but what i am seeing is that also after rebooting, or is pc connects after router is rebooted, some p2p programs are not recognised.
We have a clear case with a program called azureus, upload is not limited (or not well mangled ....)
by gianluca
Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: max. amount of connections?
Replies: 11
Views: 3855

thanks.
by gianluca
Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: Queue Profiles
Replies: 3
Views: 2142

I agree, with PCQ you cannot do bursts and cannot see traffic for each customer (nor graph them).
by gianluca
Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: max. amount of connections?
Replies: 11
Views: 3855

what's a DOS attack?
by gianluca
Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:25 am
Forum: General
Topic: MikroTik DOESN'T recognize 100% of listed p2p traffic!
Replies: 7
Views: 3651

I forgot to say that as I suppose that p2p is recognised through patterns on the packets, we all should post our info (which programs etc..) and also copy it to support@mikrotik.com in this way they can test it, find the pattern, append it in the code and include in the new release. In my case, some...
by gianluca
Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: MikroTik DOESN'T recognize 100% of listed p2p traffic!
Replies: 7
Views: 3651

The same happens to me. I created a mangle at the end catching all the rest (after mangling all known traffic like http/s,ftp,dns, p2p etc..). Then you limit (for instance to 75kb/s) this traffic to each user. In this way you limit the traffic and if they have to use a not known (mangled) traffic, t...
by gianluca
Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Ping Speed
Replies: 1
Views: 1369

not very good at all, at least in my case
by gianluca
Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: full Zebra BGP support
Replies: 14
Views: 6492

Rosario, that is good news, I didnt know it. I will read the docs to see how it works. The problem I have i sthat I have 2 providers, and 1 gave us the public IP adresses and I would like to use these addresses also with the other provider. Have no idea about gbp/as but find out.... any help is wolc...
by gianluca
Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 2 isp connection
Replies: 14
Views: 5219

Yes I know, with route ploicy, but if I have public IPs from 1 provider (and don't have ngp) how can I route these IPs to a second one (that of course cannot annouce the IPs since they dont belongs to him) ???
by gianluca
Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: full Zebra BGP support
Replies: 14
Views: 6492

is the bgp included onthe 2.9 ?
by gianluca
Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:43 am
Forum: General
Topic: Bonded ADSL
Replies: 16
Views: 17555

good question, I also would like to know it...
by gianluca
Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:39 am
Forum: General
Topic: 2 isp connection
Replies: 14
Views: 5219

if you use public IPs, how do you use 2 ISPs without bgp ?
by gianluca
Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: Netwatch Feature Request
Replies: 5
Views: 2529

We have same problem, our wireless access point (from Conceptronic) they just unswer after 2,3 or 7 pings, but they answer ! So we had to set up a script (as in the script exemple) but of course it is different than in the netwatch. doing some quick tests it seems netwacth just looks at 1st ping, ar...
by gianluca
Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: Wireless Outdoor Router Protocol (WORP) / Nstreme
Replies: 5
Views: 2279

being a proxim matter, if you prefer we can chat off-site gianred123@yahoo.it
by gianluca
Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 3km link in the city (B2B)
Replies: 7
Views: 2835

thanks again, but what are the MT's 5211 and 5212 ?
by gianluca
Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 3km link in the city (B2B)
Replies: 7
Views: 2835

what's teh maximum bandwidth (more or less) with the routerboard ? and which card you suggest to use fo rthe link?

many many thanks for the help
and welcome back!
by gianluca
Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Wireless Outdoor Router Protocol (WORP) / Nstreme
Replies: 5
Views: 2279

arve, are you using Proxim ?

we can share experience on it. We are having problems with that....
by gianluca
Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 3km link in the city (B2B)
Replies: 7
Views: 2835

my apologise, after posting I saw it interesting to open a new subject collecting the doubts a lot of people have.

A short summary of how to set up a link with MK.

Any help?
by gianluca
Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 3km link in the city (B2B)
Replies: 7
Views: 2835

3km link in the city (B2B)

I would like to set up 3 links between 2 big buildings in a city, complete LOS (a lot higher then other buildings), distance is about 3 km and need at least 40 Mb/s. I am pretty used with MK (traffic shaping and firewalling but not wireless) I suppose the solution goes through having a PCI card inst...
by gianluca
Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Long range operations
Replies: 6
Views: 3353

I would like to set up 3 links between 2 big buildings in a city, complete LOS (a lot higher then other buildings), distance is about 3 km and need at least 40 Mb/s. I am pretty used with MK (traffic shaping and firewalling but not wireless) I suppose the solution goes through having a PCI card inst...
by gianluca
Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

very interesting, thanks
by gianluca
Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

many thanks
I disable it for the moment (do not know how to delete)

we have it but not using .....

probably in next version it is sufficient not to load and that's all

many thanks again
by gianluca
Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

thanks
by gianluca
Sat Nov 06, 2004 4:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Dns cache
Replies: 7
Views: 3623

could you please give me a hint on how to do it?
by gianluca
Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Network Connection Limiting
Replies: 6
Views: 2472

yes of course, but just the tcp

add src-address=192.168.5.99/32 protocol=tcp p2p=all-p2p action=drop connection-limit=150 comment="5-99" disabled=no

it limits the p2p connections of user 192.168.5.9 to 150
by gianluca
Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: Dns cache
Replies: 7
Views: 3623

I have another problem with network chache, it doesn't work at all, if my local interface ip address is 192.168.1.1 I put thsi ip on a client pc and there is no way to browse then if I put a dns on the client pc, it works perfectly.. my config is set primary-dns=194.179.1.100 secondary-dns=0.0.0.0 a...
by gianluca
Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Network Connection Limiting
Replies: 6
Views: 2472

well, just mangle if you have a user with ip 192.168.5.29 you mangle the p2p traffic add src-address=192.168.5.29/32 p2p=all-p2p action=passthrough mark-connection=p2p_con_5.29 comment="" disabled=no add connection=p2p_con_5.29 action=accept mark-flow=p2p_5.29 comment="" disabled...
by gianluca
Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:15 am
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

now I receive this on my log a part of course is drpped by the input rule, but there is still another part (ISKAM) which doen's mach my input rules nov/06/2004 01:43:03 input->DROP, in:public, out:(local), src-mac 00:04:de:69:e8:a8, prot UDP, 218.186.80.250:500->217.172.x.x:500, len 244 > nov/06/200...
by gianluca
Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:51 am
Forum: General
Topic: Subnet Burstable Bandwidth Howto
Replies: 9
Views: 3560

with PCQ there is no way to have burst. you have to use queue tree and make a rule per IP, then you can use the burst option on a deafult queue type.
by gianluca
Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: Network Connection Limiting
Replies: 6
Views: 2472

are you using NAT/masquerade ? using also peer 2 peer programs.
Anyhow you can just limit the number of TCP connections, UDP not.

If you have problems with p2p prgrams write it down, maybe I can help you
by gianluca
Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: sangoma pci adsl s518 not recognized
Replies: 22
Views: 5940

very good Rosario
by gianluca
Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: be careful use the "ip firewall connections"with
Replies: 5
Views: 2412

well

you should put also protocol=tcp and limit-connection=150 per each user using p2p

we are maybe in teh same case, we have 150 users over the mikortik with just 1 public IP address

is your network using p2p ? doeas it work fine?
by gianluca
Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:39 am
Forum: General
Topic: Content filtering
Replies: 4
Views: 2390

good

what kind of filtering you can do?

just limiting the url or also a "adult content" firltering ?
by gianluca
Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: simple queues question
Replies: 5
Views: 2144

I while ago I read a document that was vey good explaining the queue tree system (I had probs on understanding it).

If I find it and someone is interested I will post it somehow, it can be useful for a lot of people
by gianluca
Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

I have to thank you a lot
talk to you on another subject soon
bye
Gianluca
by gianluca
Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

many many thanks to you both

BUT justto be sure, I post it all ....

2 in-interface=public protocol=ipsec-ah action=drop log=yes

3 in-interface=public protocol=ipsec-esp action=drop log=yes

4 src-address=:500 in-interface=public protocol=udp action=drop

is this enough and correct ?
by gianluca
Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

many thanks again anyway I received again on the log oct/27/2004 15:05:50 peer not configured oct/27/2004 15:05:54 received ISAKMP packet from 82.135.2.123:500, phase 1, Identity Protection oct/27/2004 15:05:54 peer not configured oct/27/2004 15:05:59 received ISAKMP packet from 194.176.44.209:500, ...
by gianluca
Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: P2P up and down
Replies: 11
Views: 3067

I had to change a lot of things. When I have it done I will post it
many thanks anyway

actually we are NATting our users and having problems with LOWID and low performance with p2p programs... still solving this
by gianluca
Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

thank you very much, I will change it to this. I am on another prob... on the ip firewall rule forward I use the limit connection to limit the maximum connection of the mangled traffic to 150. But then we need to limit also the OVERALL max amount of connections per user, since they can have viruses ...
by gianluca
Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: sangoma pci adsl s518 not recognized
Replies: 22
Views: 5940

so, when will it be available?
by gianluca
Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MSN messenger audio conversation problem
Replies: 6
Views: 2658

I have same problem, also with p2p programs clients are using like emule and edonkey.

Anybody else has problems with the p2p programs on a NATted network?
by gianluca
Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MSN messenger audio conversation problem
Replies: 6
Views: 2658

I have same problem, also with p2p programs clients are using like emule and edonkey.

Anybody else has problems with the p2p programs on a NATted network?
by gianluca
Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

2 dst-address=:500 protocol=udp action=reject

3 dst-address=:47 protocol=tcp action=reject

is this enough ?
by gianluca
Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:43 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Number of connections?
Replies: 28
Views: 11677

I see 2 ways

1. a script on the mikrotik, it send an email each time you want this data
2. from a remote server execute a script with telnet and retreive the info
by gianluca
Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Seminars
Replies: 3
Views: 1678

it would be great. my email is gianred123@yahoo.it
by gianluca
Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MANGLING DNS
Replies: 8
Views: 2909

is this complete about dns

68 ;;; DNS
dst-address=:53 protocol=udp action=accept mark-flow=dns

69 src-address=:53 protocol=udp action=accept mark-flow=dns

70 src-address=:53 protocol=tcp action=accept mark-flow=dns

71 dst-address=:53 protocol=tcp action=accept mark-flow=dns
by gianluca
Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: A little problem with Cacti graphing of Queues
Replies: 3
Views: 1719

thank you very much, it will be very useful also for us. We will set up a server to monitoring all this next week. many thanks again in advance
by gianluca
Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE user to user traffic
Replies: 14
Views: 5015

Hammy are your network coneccting a community of people like mine ? we would like to set up a p2p server to allow people to share their files, any experience on it?
by gianluca
Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

so what do I have to do ?
can it have something to do with my emule download problem ?

any forewall rule I can set up ... any help ?
by gianluca
Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: messages on my log
Replies: 21
Views: 5419

messages on my log

on my log i see this. what does it mean ? TIME MESSAGE oct/23/2004 21:35:12 peer not configured oct/23/2004 21:35:13 received ISAKMP packet from 65.102.121.225:500, phase 1, Identity Protection > oct/23/2004 21:35:13 peer not configured oct/23/2004 21:35:14 received ISAKMP packet from 65.102.121.225...
by gianluca
Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP lease that never expires
Replies: 8
Views: 6549

I am surprised that also putting it manually is countingdown the time and says expire after ....
by gianluca
Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE user to user traffic
Replies: 14
Views: 5015

any news about it?

I did some testing and YES all traffic is passing through the router and coming back to the other pppoe client.
by gianluca
Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MANGLING DNS
Replies: 8
Views: 2909

cmit if you can help me on the emule, my email is gianred123@yahoo.it many many thanks
by gianluca
Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MANGLING DNS
Replies: 8
Views: 2909

maybe a litle bit too long but this is it [admin@MikroTik] ip firewall mangle> print Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 0 ;;; P2P STREAMING src-address=192.168.5.29/32 p2p=all-p2p action=passthrough mark-connection=p2p_con_5.29 1 connection=p2p_con_5.29 action=accept mark-flow=p2p_5.29 2 ...
by gianluca
Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MANGLING DNS
Replies: 8
Views: 2909

ok thanks, and what about my other post about emule ?
you know a lot about it, any idea of the problem ?
by gianluca
Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MANGLING DNS
Replies: 8
Views: 2909

MANGLING DNS

I would like to speed up as much as possible the web page opening dns are a important part now in my mangle I have at the first position p2p and then dns traffic, follows http/s and mail .... this is how i mangle the dns 68 ;;; DNS dst-address=:53 protocol=udp action=accept mark-flow=dns 69 src-addr...
by gianluca
Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: EMULE problems
Replies: 2
Views: 1981

i explain you how this is set up in our network, so you can see it better and we can talk more specifically we have 1 public IP, lets call it PubIP and 50 emule users, with private IP, lets say privIP1, privIP2 ... for instance the privIP 192.168.5.29 has all this: in ip firewall mangle / ip firewal...
by gianluca
Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: EMULE problems
Replies: 2
Views: 1981

EMULE problems

we are using the mikrotik as gateway for our wireless LAN, mangling p2p traffic (basically 90% Emule) we are using private ips, so that we are using masquerade to allow the use of the emule we are using dst-nat assigning a tcp and a udp port to each client it works fine but sometimes there is someon...
by gianluca
Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE user to user traffic
Replies: 14
Views: 5015

exactlym does it zork this way?
by gianluca
Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: P2P up and down
Replies: 11
Views: 3067

sorry but your script doesnt work
by gianluca
Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: P2P up and down
Replies: 11
Views: 3067

I will try the script and organise the queues with some tricks, like just changing the queues with priority 5 to priority 1 and live queues that i dont want to change to priority 4 .... but this is not the solution why dont look at the donwloaded bytes and each time it goes up to a certain amount, w...
by gianluca
Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: P2P up and down
Replies: 11
Views: 3067

ok thanks

but how do I see p2p traffic through the tool torch ? and how in s script ?
each client has a dst-nat different port
by gianluca
Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: More detailed docs about SNMP
Replies: 5
Views: 2845

it would be very nice, but it seems mikrotik is not pushing in this direction. there is this billingo .... but we have to pay ... otherwise a lot of in-house solutions, but nobody shares anything I will start working on it beginning november, but I find a bit silly re-invent the wheel again .... som...
by gianluca
Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:18 am
Forum: General
Topic: P2P up and down
Replies: 11
Views: 3067

many many thanks, I will try it asap. Anyway there are just 2 other aspects: - in my case not all the customers are using p2p, so instead of having a lineal increment of the variable, it would be nice to have a vector where i can put the list of customers I would like to include in this random. - th...
by gianluca
Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: Anyone tried runing routerOS on this nice platform?
Replies: 6
Views: 2760

ok

so whats the process, just to have the mikrotik os on a flash card and then plug it?

can you tell me the process step by step, please..

thanks
by gianluca
Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE user to user traffic
Replies: 14
Views: 5015

i qm using wifi ap and they do are not able to limit cust to cust traffi .... so I thought about setting up ppoe
by gianluca
Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: P2P up and down
Replies: 11
Views: 3067

let's say we have 10 queues of p2p mangled trafficm i.e. p2pIN_user1 maxlimit 100 p2pIN_user2 p2pIN_user3 and so on and p2pOUT_user1 etc... maxlimit 30 all of them with priority 5 every our one customer should have the BINGO TIMEm randonly putting its queues to maxlimit 300 and the out to 90m priori...
by gianluca
Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: Telnet Script
Replies: 14
Views: 7070

also

http://www.softtreetch.com 24x7 scheduler

but it would be nice from the MK ....
by gianluca
Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:12 am
Forum: General
Topic: Telnet Script
Replies: 14
Views: 7070

or... we can also put a windows server on the network to automate this, but do you know any windows based prgram that can automatically telnet an equipment and write reboot after it ?
by gianluca
Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: P2P up and down
Replies: 11
Views: 3067

P2P up and down

We have several customers using P2P. Each customer has its p2p traffic mangled and then put in a queue tree out and in. I would like to play a little bit with the max-limit of the queues setting them on a cycle way to higher number. I explain myself, lets say CL1 to CL30 have p2p on, all limited to ...
by gianluca
Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Telnet Script
Replies: 14
Views: 7070

I have the same problem, we have a lot of users using p2p programs and need to reboot our equipment on teh network twice a day. Now we are still doing it manually but it would be nice to have it done from the MK through a script. My equipment doesn't support ssh and the only way is to use telnet + u...
by gianluca
Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE user to user traffic
Replies: 14
Views: 5015

many many thanks we are using 3 different LANs, tipical lan is LAN 1 CL1 --------------- SWITCH (no programmable)-------------- CL2 --------------- ! CL3 --------------- ! ! LAN 2 ! ! CL4 --------------- SWITCH (no programmable)---------------- MIKROTIK CL5 --------------- ! CL6 --------------- ! ! ...
by gianluca
Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP lease that never expires
Replies: 8
Views: 6549

yes

what I do about fix dhcp entry is with the winbox to doubleclick and the say copy and save it

the D of dynamic goes away and looks like static, but it still countingdown the lease time ....

how can I bound eternally the IP to a lease and mac ?
by gianluca
Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Anyone tried runing routerOS on this nice platform?
Replies: 6
Views: 2760

not me, but everybody is saying realtek eth cards are very bad
by gianluca
Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MSN messenger audio conversation problem
Replies: 6
Views: 2658

I have the same problem, using masquerade, there is no way to make audio and/or video working (in same cases video is ok but slow) My customers found a solution using another software for audio. If you activate the universal plug and play everybody will see MIKROTIK UPaP everytime they connect to th...
by gianluca
Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Telnet Script
Replies: 14
Views: 7070

I have the same problem. Did you manage to solve it ?
It is very important for us, many thanks
by gianluca
Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:14 am
Forum: General
Topic: sangoma pci adsl s518 not recognized
Replies: 22
Views: 5940

how do you see it timewise ?
by gianluca
Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP lease that never expires
Replies: 8
Views: 6549

yes

in Emule you need your port open to allow you to a high speed of up/download, this is indicated by your ID number (low no good, hogh perfect)

if you are using local private IP with NAT or masquerade, you need to use dst-nat
by gianluca
Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP lease that never expires
Replies: 8
Views: 6549

ok thanks.

I was meaning:

do you use dst-nat to make them having a high ID?
do you limit the connections per user ?

my email is gianred123@yahoo.it
by gianluca
Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE user to user traffic
Replies: 14
Views: 5015

if they change the IP is no problem for me, as they will not have access to the internet since it will be refused at the gateway (which is the MK). So my question is still open .... with PPPoE all packets goes directly to the PPPoE concetrator and then back to the other user ?? I mean, I don't want ...
by gianluca
Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP lease that never expires
Replies: 8
Views: 6549

ok many thanks, I did it ands it seems it works ok.
Do you also have people using p2p on your network? what do you do with them?
by gianluca
Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: sangoma pci adsl s518 not recognized
Replies: 22
Views: 5940

I don't like it

why they say it works if it don't

what support did tell you ?
any answer on it?
by gianluca
Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: sangoma pci adsl s518 not recognized
Replies: 22
Views: 5940

Hi is the sangoma card this ? ADSL cards S518/ADSL PCI card Part Number S518 Description PCI 2.2 bus interface, 3.3v and 5v.Data rates up to 10.5 Mb/s high speed, 8 Mb/s full rate, 4 Mb/s for G.Lite downstream and up to 1 Mb/s upstream. A general purpose card supporting all applications including WA...
by gianluca
Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE user to user traffic
Replies: 14
Views: 5015

many thanks but it didn't help

I have a LAN with 100 users connected through ethernet cable. So they can of course see one each other.

I supposed that using pppoe forced traffic going to the router (gateway) directly and then from there to the destination.

is it like that ?
by gianluca
Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE user to user traffic
Replies: 14
Views: 5015

PPPoE user to user traffic

I would like to migrate my 100 customers to PPPoE. In this way can I avoid 1 customer to "see" the other customers ? I mean can I avoid direct customer to customer traffic ?

All customers are put in a cabled LAN
by gianluca
Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:58 am
Forum: General
Topic: Need to install graphics for Mikrotik Router
Replies: 3
Views: 1672

I tried the v2.9 and my system crashed (routerboard) some months ago. I of course wait for the new version released. Is there any documentation or screenshot available to see new feature so I avoid thinking in solving problems I might find on new version? If graph is embedded in new version, is ther...
by gianluca
Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP lease that never expires
Replies: 8
Views: 6549

DHCP lease that never expires

I would like to set my DHCP (which is working fine with a lease time of 280 hours) to a lease time that never expires, indefinitive bounded.

This is because I am assigning tcp/udo port with dst-nat to local IP clients to allow them using emule and wouldn't want ip to change

any help
thanks
by gianluca
Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE set up on XP
Replies: 2
Views: 1288

Thank you very much. Of course it helps (we also have to translate it to spanish, but it is ok for our network in Barcelona,Spain). please write me at gianred123@yahoo.it I suppose you have rural hotspots and people are connecting through roof-top connections. Have you ever thought about setting up ...
by gianluca
Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: be careful use the "ip firewall connections"with
Replies: 5
Views: 2412

well on the forward chain put a drop on the p2p connetcion an connection limit at 150 on tcp connections

don't you have problems with p2p customers ?
by gianluca
Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: p2p
Replies: 1
Views: 1539

p2p

We are using the mikrotik os on routerboard as gateway for our wi-fi network. Wi-fi network is based on cheap equipment like linksys and is a roof-to-roof network, then inside the building we are cabling. p2p traffic is shaped (mangle,queuetree+pcq) but there is a big problem on amount of connection...
by gianluca
Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: be careful use the "ip firewall connections"with
Replies: 5
Views: 2412

I receive a time out also via telnet
why don't limit teh connection amount?
by gianluca
Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE set up on XP
Replies: 2
Views: 1288

PPPoE set up on XP

I would like to migrate my network of 100 customers from LAN to PPPoE. Customers are 90 % on Windows XP, directly connected by cable & wifi to the router I would like to have some indication on how to set up the PPPoE client on the XP (I did it and looked easy and worked) but even more important...
by gianluca
Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:43 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Phone Jack Iterface issue....
Replies: 3
Views: 5393

can we use those phonejack card to connect the routerboard to an ADSL ?
by gianluca
Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: WinXP SP2 & PPPoE
Replies: 2
Views: 1290

I don't know about the pppoe prob.

I have problem to linmit connections per user on p2p programs.
did you manage to have it done ?

gianred1232yahoo.it
ciao
Gianluca
by gianluca
Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: BGP Configuration
Replies: 2
Views: 1595

I would like to know if you finnally can manage to reduce the connections per user on p2p users, please write me at gianred123@yahoo.it
ciao
Gianluca
by gianluca
Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: Beta Questions
Replies: 6
Views: 3486

that's excactly what happens to me, no audio at all, video is ok, seems just to be a litle bit slow but might be the queue tree that is slowing it down.

But the voice is not working at all. Any idea ?
by gianluca
Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hardware needed for 45-100mbps??
Replies: 8
Views: 3550

I am using the routerboard 230, what about the interrupt sof the embedded ethernet cards ?

I say it because it seems I cannot have more then 2/3 mb/s of traffic passing through the router, I have 20/30 users with p2p.

any other with bad experience?
by gianluca
Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ADSL Feature Request
Replies: 3
Views: 2386

I have the same problem, actually we are connecting 1 of the 2 gateway of the MK to an ADSL, diverting p2p traffic there, but the router got stack very often.

Do you know any adsl-modem that supports wothout problems 20/25 users with emule ?

thanks GIanluca (BArcelona)
by gianluca
Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: limit the p2p connection number
Replies: 2
Views: 1837

I also have the same problem. I would like to limit the connection per-user to 300. Can i set this as a limit just for the user p2p traffic or must be for all connections the user opens ? this emule is litteraly lowing teh performance of the whole network we have... that is a pitty ... we have a LAN...
by gianluca
Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Beta Questions
Replies: 6
Views: 3486

well

I use 2 gateways that routes high rpiority traffic to 1 adsl and p2p to another. works fine

I have problemas with voice and video of messenger, but apparently we should have a look at how messenger works and probably set up a dst-nat
by gianluca
Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: the router is limiting my thoughoutput
Replies: 9
Views: 3532

can someone help me ?
I have CPU usage 50% and memory as well left as much as 50% (I am using a 64 Mb memory). I would like to use it in a 6Mb/s trunck with 8.000 connections opened
by gianluca
Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: the router is limiting my thoughoutput
Replies: 9
Views: 3532

/ ip firewall set input name="input" policy=accept comment="" set forward name="forward" policy=accept comment="" set output name="output" policy=accept comment="" add name="customer" policy=none comment="" / ip firewall...