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Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:18 am

I bought from an online store. equipment Mikrotik ATL 18KIT. And it's not cheap.
In the end, because of Mikrotik's policy to glue passwords by default. I can't access the hardware settings.
And strangely the label on the antenna and the hardware mac address don't match. Is this a manufacturer's error?
How to restore the password? Mikrotik is falling before my eyes every year!
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:33 am

The password on a sticker is a process which has been implemented and still may show some quirks.
Earlier versions had some characters which could easily be mistaken for others.

Try other characters: capital O or zero, capital i or 1 or lowercase l (the letter L), ...
What I do ALL THE TIME is take a picture with camera set to x3 zoom.

Funiest thing I have seen (not really) was that swap of zero and capital O whereas in the MAC address zero was nicely written with slash through it (as was common in the old days).
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:48 am

When you say "the label on the antenna and the hardware mac address don't match", are you sure it is not the case that one is the ethernet MAC and the other (antenna) the WiFi MAC? Usually one sees both on the label for wireless-capable devices. You expect them to be different.
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:53 am

 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:55 am

When you say "the label on the antenna and the hardware mac address don't match", are you sure it is not the case that one is the ethernet MAC and the other (antenna) the WiFi MAC? Usually one sees both on the label for wireless-capable devices. You expect them to be different.
This device no have wi-fi. Only 1 ethernet POE port!
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:59 am

You bought from an commercial online store and yet you come here seeking for help? You provide no photo nor did you provide any info what is written on the label. But you complain "it was not cheap". Yeah, your car maybe was even More expensive - and where do you go in case of a problem? To the dealer or to the brand's internet user forum?
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:01 am

Try zero or capital O as 4th character.

EDIT:
Now I see. There is a complete mismatch between MAC address in Winbox and what's on the label.
Return to vendor !
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:07 am

You bought from an commercial online store and yet you come here seeking for help? You provide no photo nor did you provide any info what is written on the label. But you complain "it was not cheap". Yeah, your car maybe was even More expensive - and where do you go in case of a problem? To the dealer or to the brand's internet user forum?
Read topic up. I attache picture!
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:11 am

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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:13 am

@oskarsk
Already suggested that as well.
But ... there is a complete mismatch between MAC address on sticker and winbox.
Definitely an error in the manufacturing process IMHO so the device should go back to vendor for swap.
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:16 am

@oskarsk
Already suggested that as well.
But ... there is a complete mismatch between MAC address on sticker and winbox.
Definitely an error in the manufacturing process IMHO so the device should go back to vendor for swap.
Yes. You a right! I think make downgrade firmware. Netinstall 6.49.12.
This is work?
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:19 am

Try reset and my password, if not working contact distributor.
or
Use netinstall to remove config.
Min Ros version for this device 7.4.1
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:53 am

Try reset and my password, if not working contact distributor.
or
Use netinstall to remove config.
Min Ros version for this device 7.4.1
Thank you! I am very glad that there are good people on this forum!
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!  [SOLVED]

Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:32 am

The flap of the label, at the top right, is raised... Typical of when the label is removed and reattached.

Use netinstall with both the option to NOT keep the previous configuration AND not apply the default.
This way you can have access to the device without a password.

Once logged in via MAC address, it is possible to create an admin user with a known password,
then perform the reset-configuration with the "keep-user" option and apply the default configuration,
in order to have a device configured as new, but with the password known.
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Mon Jan 29, 2024 2:01 pm

F1ReB4LL you won't believe this but I got the other end of this sticker.

Just received my unit and after a hard reset, my default password on the sticker did not work!!!

After some googling I found you post with my MAC address and my password that works.

As from my side I got the sticker with your MAC address and your password.

Im attaching a picture if you still need it
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Mon Jan 29, 2024 2:44 pm

Almost incredible, though it happens in other fields as well :wink:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babies_switched_at_birth
 
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Re: Default password sticker wrong!!!

Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:11 pm

This is fate, get married
:lol:

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