Or add a RB260GSP [...] You get power consumption monitoring, selective power down/remote reset, wire speed filtering et. al.

You can disable and then enable PoE on a specific port via the switches web interface and thus get your power reset.

Hello,

Don't know if you've read this thread:

http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=86699

It's possible to get a MikroTik Switch (e.g. RB260GSP) to power-cycle a connected RouterBOARD by toggling PoE-out on a switch port.
Could you add a feature to SwOS switches to signal to connected RouterBOARDs that a config-reset (or equivalent of holding down reset button) is required?

One idea could be to drop down to 10baseT mode (to enforce 2-pair communication and ignore negotiation to 100/1000) and use the spare pairs for a mix of PoE (DC) and a custom freq. AC "tone" (e.g. 1KHz)? You could even use one of the spare pairs as a "return" to indicate reset light status (e.g. flashing, steady, off)

You could even make small PoE injectors with "reset-config" feature for people with RouterBOARDs that are hard to access. (Not quite as good as remote reset-config but still very useful!)

Thanks!

@honzam... Thank you for the response but I have one of those and it still only powers one rb unless I'm doing something wrong.

@Petzl... Thank you too. Do you have a link as to how to do this mod and what is needed.

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