Routerboard 44 - first interface not showing up in list...

RouterOS General
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I’ve got a SuperMicro 1U appliance that I want to use for a HotSpot setup and some other general routing functions. The built-in 2-interface NICs show up fine loading an Intel Pro/100 driver as interfaces Ether1 and Ether2. The Routerboard 44 loads the “VIA Rhine I/II Fast Ethernet” driver as Interfaces ether5, ether6 and ether7. The MAC address that isn’t showing up is the first interface on the Routerboard44.

Anything I can do to enable that first i/f? I need all six to do what I’d planned…

TIA - Owen

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You should send a supout file to support@mikrotik.com and we can check a little. I think this is a bios issue, so I suggest playing with the bios settings.

John

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Owen,

I’m seeing the same thing with a ASUS P4G800-V motherboard. The MikroTik OS will only recognize three ports of each RB44 installed.

I’d love to believe the problem lies with a faulty BOIS setting, but I respectfully disagree with John Tully that the problem is in the BIOS settings.

I have tried other motherboards with varying results as well. Only a three year old, discontinued DFI motherboard has worked with six RB44’s. Sure would be nice if support at MikroTik could tell us what “late model” six PCI slot motherboard’s are compatible with their products.

Best,

Brad Belton

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Brad,

You asked me for a board that had six slots that we used and I told you – now you complain. Not so many boards have six slots, so I did the best.

Normunds will write with current boards that work fine with four port cards, but don’t have six slots.

Perhaps you should go to one of those mall PC assemblers and work with some people that know about boards and bios’s to get is going.

John

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John,

Testy, testy this morning? Gheesh, I only said “respectfully disagree” and I apologize if you perceived my comments as a jab.

Yes, I did ask several times what motherboards MikroTik had tested and were known to work. Finally I was given a make/model of a discontinued motherboard that as of today I have only found one “refurb”. That board is in production use right now with 6 RB44’s loaded. Works great! I wish it was capable of something more than a P4 2GHz CPU, but it’s better than nothing.

I look forward to Normunds list of motherboards that are known compatible with multiple RB44’s loaded. Given the plethora of motherboards offering 5 PCI slots I assume there will be a few on his list with 5 PCI slots?

Many thanks,


Brad Belton