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Since one of our core routers started it's daily bandwidth usage script on simple queues at 7am this morning, it's seriously hungup-- -log files were not created -CPU load jumped from ~4% to sustained 40% -Winbox Queue List shows "90 items out of 207" on Simple Queues list -cli /que sim pr...

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I just had two SEXTANT G 5HPnD's do a similar thing. I have a 'config' file that I paste to term window when I'm setting up. Both were 5.2x. Worked fine after setup in the van. Once it was installed, all the led's blink in a repeated pattern. After second one did it, I checked CAT5 with a fluke test...

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Is there anyway to distinguish between the SXT SA and SXT HG after they are installed? I didn't realize that both show RB SXT G-5HPnD r2.

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In July, we replaced 5 of our core routers with faster models. Most of old ones were running 5.7, amd ~3ghz, and used IDE modules for storage. New ones were configured with SSD SATA drives for storage, and 5.24 was loaded. They run great, but occasionally (sometimes twice a week) might lock up in th...

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I've bought a level 4 license for several.

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I'd pay $100 just to be able to successfully backup my dude config. So close to being the perfect monitoring tool.

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I've also tried to figure this out. There's nothing about it on routerboard doc's.

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I've been fighting ethernet issues for more than a year. I've got tons of 750's at towers, bridged. The problem I see is a port will drop to 10mbps. I can turn auto-neg off/on and it comes back up at 100, and runs fine. In fact, I put a script in every one to check every hour, and if it's rate is 10...

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Thanks for updating us. I've been checking almost daily, but have found few US sites that even have added them to their website.
The current Sextants just never seem to perform as well as the SXT's. Hoping that the 911 solves the problem, as the extra few DB would be helpful on some links.

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I've replaced the cap's in about 30 411 boards as well. The 'green' caps that were used only seem to fail in the heat of the summer...

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Whenever I try to backup Dude 4.0beta3, it reboots the box. I've seen references to the db files, but as it's running on x86 box running 4.17, all I see are usual files under /file menu. Is there another way to get to files? Or is the system crash a problem with MT 4.17 install? I have a pretty larg...

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Tower Equip @ 418'. Access points tested to included: -MT 411AH w/ R52 on Hyperlink 17dbi Vert Sector -MT 711GA-GHnD on UBNT 17dbi Sector -UBNT Rocket on UBNT 17dbi Sector Shop testing done with Hyperlink 27dbi grid, @30', 40' of LMR400 to testbench. Distance to Tower is 4 miles. Field testing done ...

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I've been testing a new 'Metal' vs regular Groove for a couple of days. Connecting to various MT and UBNT AP's.
It always seems that the new Metal has significantly lower receive throughput. I've tried various settings under A, as well as N. Both are running 5.17...
Anyone else seeing any issues?

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We've screwed up a couple of Sextants because of the angle to the socket, plus the small size of the path through the door. In addition to trying to leave some space between the jacket and connector, we've been taking a unibit on the drill and enlarging the Sextant's hole a bit at an angle in the ri...

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I moved to 5.14 and it works like it's supposed to. Maybe I missed this in the changelog....

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Occasionaly, we see ethernet issues from CAT5 etc., and a RB switch (450,493 etc) port gets switched to 10mbps. We have script that runs each hour that emails us if it happens. Many of them also have script scheduled that also will turn auto-negotiate off and back on, and usually the port resyncs ba...

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Running 4.0beta3 on ROS 4.17 on x86 57.6GB total HDD 57.4GB Free 2.6ghz AMD dual core, 6-10% cpu Backup restarts Dude service. I've seen reference to backup up dude files with file copy. Is this possible from Winbox or otherwise? Dude is awesome otherwise, and has become key piece of our operation. ...

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Nevermind- I figured it out....

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Thanks for the reply. My lack of scripting experience is now my problem- I started with a simple script to check a single interface and create a log entry if true, but it doesn't work. /int eth monitor ether2 once do={ :if ($"rate" = "10Mbps") :log info "Ether2 is 10Mbps&quo...

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When a switch can't maintain 100mbps it drops a port to 10mbps. I'm trying to do a script that can email me if a Port is at 10mbps. The "Speed" shows what's configured when "Auto-Negotiate" is disabled The "Rate" shows what the Port is currently operating at. "Rate...

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I'm seeing similar issues since moving to Beta3. Device labels and link labels will stop showing OID results. A reboot of our AMD based box will fix it. Not all devices. Seems to be only ones that have Charts also defined. History for those devices will be blank from the time that it begins until th...

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I'm newbie when it comes to VLAN's and tagging. I know this should be easy, but I've worked on it for days.... We're needing to take two seperate, untagged ethernet networks, combine into single bridge (Trango Apex 375mbps), and then seperate back out on the other end. I'm working toward this layout...

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We've just starting upgrading some 4.x BH's to 5.x.
Links in the dude (3.6) no longer can get SNMP off them.
I've noted that SNMP on 5.x has more options, including security and authentication.

Is there anyway for Dude 3.6 to read SNMP community public from 5.x clients?

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I've been replacing the caps during spare time in evenings. some of the boards had been in use for a long time. Can't help but to believe that it is temp related, as we've had a month of 100+ degree days, which we didn't have last summer.

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I had a different thread going about my dozen or more 411ah's that have failed. They all have the green capacitors that now have the tops swollen. (6.3V 660 uF. I noticed the new boards have black capacitors that are 680uf, and have one less. (the one on the side opposite the pair) Can someone give ...

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Sorry for the delay in responding. I've got all of the 411AH boards laying in a drawer. It does look like the tops of capacitors (what I believe they are) are swollen and maybe have some goo on some of them. Although I pulled one from new inventory, and there is a little stuff on top of a few. Thank...

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Yes, the serial cable connection works. Tested back and forth with good boards. Had another one fail yesterday. Bounced up and down for a few minutes, then dead. When we brought it in, four leds go solid immediately, and nothing out serial port. Tried powering both POE and DC jack. Powered by 24-26v...

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I've had 6 BH's with 411AH that have failed in the last month. Every one has all the lights on board go solid when it powers up, and nothing even on serial port.

Any thoughts

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Let me clarify--- Our Dude server is running on x86 with 4.6. /sys clock shows correct timezone and time. On my desktop workstation, I can launch Dude 3.6 and connect to server and time is correct. I can open a browser on the same workstation, I can go in with browser to connect, and time is +5 hour...

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I've always had a problem that the web interface into Dude server shows +5 hours on logs and history. Example, outage shows Jul/09 11:44:52 on Dude login from Dude software, while Outage on Device screen on Web interface shows Jul/09 16:44:52. We've always known to subtract 5 hours, but is there any...

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I've been trying to monitor MT boxes running RSTP. I want to know when it changes an interface from "designated" to "alternate".

I've tried about every 'topic' on the list.

thanks,
Randall

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I moved several of the BH's to 4.9. The links would still drop at least once a day, often twice. I downgraded one to 3.30, and it's dropped once in 6 days. Downgraded another 3 days ago, and it hasn't dropped yet. Strange thing is that I have one that's not quite as good of signal, usually 85% - 90%...

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Forgot to include that in my post. I raised the links in question to 10 several weeks ago. I'll raise it to 14 and see what that does.

Thanks,
Randall

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I've been trying to figure this one out for several weeks. Several PtP links that have always been stable will disconnect with "received deauth: class2 frame received (6)" They instantly reconnect. Most of them have great link. Main one has a 97-100 ccq both rx/tx, 55-59 dbm both rx/tx. Ve...

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Maybe I don't understand the purpose of dependencies.... I was wanting to eliminate notifications for every radio on a tower if the BH goes down etc... I first drew the dependencies from the AP's on a tower to the BH . I changed the IP on the BH to make it show down. Then I did this on one of the AP...

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Wanted to make sure I do dependencies right before I get too far... Example: 4 devices on a tower A, B, C, D. If all go down, to only get one notification... I started doing it B -> A, C->A, D->A, but I see that "A" list's the others as parents. So, I assume I should draw from the top leve...

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I've just started using Dude- and noticed that the history on all of the devices seems to be wrong. I start ping running from server to device and it's 4-5ms, but the History in Dude shows 40-50 on graph.

Did I miss something somewhere?

Thanks

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That would be great value!

Be real handy if you're trying to login and check with a smartphone- just scroll down the list....

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I have a MT box as my backbone router, so I can use a NAT Rule under Firewall to redirect them to a webpage. NAT Rule: Chain - dstnat Protocol- tcp dst port- 1-200 (don't want email etc to work either) SRC Address List - Suspend Action - dst-nat To Address - xx.xx.xx.xx address that is page you want...

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I've upgraded core MT router from 3.xx to 4.3. We keep Queue List running in winbox at office to monitor simple queues, as well as Interface traffic graphs. Since upgrading, the Queue List will virtually die after a few hours. If you double-click on an entry, it will refresh it's line, but the rest ...

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I've upgraded our backbone MT box, (AMD Athlon X2) to 4.3. I keep a winbox open remotely, showing Simple Queue list. Most of the entries never update unless you double-click on it. Seems like when I first open winbox, it's updating, but it gets slower and slower. I also keep traffic graph of backbon...

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Sound like exact same problems on R5H's as with R52H's. Client cards burned up a few times while AP was rebooting. Seemed to be related to scanning. We've had a few R5H's burn up. (could smell them outside of enclosure). Link would last for a few minutes while the card continued to get hotter. I thi...

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clear counters on /int OR make the columns wider? We pull queue stats with /queue simple print stats file=stats at midnight for bandwidth mgt, and also started running /interface print stats file=ether to compare total bandwidth on our backbone ether port Unfortunately, after a few days the stats on...

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A few versions ago there was a bug with dual core processors that caused the clock to run much faster and the box would eventually crash. I think it was 2-3 times the speed though. That problem was corrected with the next release. I've always found occasional issues/incompatibilities with various mb...

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I'll ask. Don't know anything about BGP, so I appreciate any input!

Thanks,
Randall

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We have small network with 40mb upstream connection and /22 and couple of /24's from them. We have 3ghz x86 Box running MT, with one port in and 4 ports out with /24's and /26's assigned to each. We have a 'large' potential customer that wants us for backup for their 30mb fiber from local telecom. T...

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I had never compared the frames / hw frames before. I'm noticing the TX comparision follows pretty close to what I expected 1.6 x on a good link, 2.1 x on a not so great link. However, the RX comparison is way, way out of whack. The RX HW is 2200 x higher on one that I looked at, but always way high...

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The problem was with policy. I created from command line, and it added this and it created file okay: policy=ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,winbox,password,sniff I created scheduler event from the command line and it add this and didn't create file: policy=read,write,test I changed the scheduler ...

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Sorry for the confusion. The scheduler executes , but the file does not show under files. I created a script which also shows to execute, but the file does not show under files. If I run the line from command line, the file appears under files. I don't think the problem is with the scheduler, I thin...

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I have a scheduler event that runs at midnight that's always worked on previous versions, but it will not create the file since upgrade to 3.23. /queue simple print stats file stats It works fine from the command line. I've tried executing a script instead, that contains the line, and it will not cr...

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I'm wondering if this an issue with 3.23. (This is the first time I've tried on 3.23) I've also tried running script with the same command, and it will not execute either It only works from the command line on 3.23 I created scheduler event on several MT boxes with 3.22 and it works fine. /queue sim...

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I had two scheduler events on old MT box, and one isn't working after moving to new box. Doesn't print file now: /queue simple print stats file stats Works fine still: /queue simple reset-counters-all I can execute the command from console and it makes the file, but not when scheduler executes. I've...

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The BH's are two seperate links, a pair of AP -> Station-WDS, going into a RB433 with RSTP running on the bridge. The main one is 5ghz Turbo, while the backup is 5ghz. It works great except when the main link bounces up and down. There is actually more redundant BH's and RSTP boxes on past this brid...

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I've got two redundant 35 mile MT BH's, with RSTP running on a MT box on one end. Occasionally, we will have fade issue on our 'main' link. The lower priority (slower) link remains stable. The problem seems that if the primary link keeps rapidly dropping/reassociating for a while, the STP will keep ...

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I am too having issues with simple queues after upgrade from 2.9.xx to 3.13. (Actually went to 3.14 but AMD dual core issue with clock, and downgraded back to 3.13) We use data from simple queues for each customer IP to bandwidth stats. I've got at least one queue for a customer's IP that will seem ...

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When you uploaded the file, did you set type to binary?

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So far, the only installs that the R52H's have failed in are Rootenna installs with the plastic standoffs. Don't think any of the ones that are better grounded enclosures have failed, but may just be coincedence. None of the regular R52's have failed, or SR5, XR5's. Most seem to just loose their sig...

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There is definately something up with them.. Since around the 1st of the year, the default tx power setting has been used, and the failure rate has increased. A problem that we never had with R52's or SR5's and XR5's. Sure, the one that failed on a tower after five months may very well have been att...

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Yes 398mw. But then again, that also depends on whether the card was actually transmitting at 100%. That's why when the radio is idle there is low power draw by the radio. In fact, at idle, there is close to 0 mw coming from the output. Having ###holes on the forum gets us NOWHERE. But then again, t...

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First off, it was unclear whether the default power setting actually worked in earlier versions of MT. However, we did start leaving it at default in later versions.. The cards STILL FAIL with default settings. Second, the power output rating on the R53H is 350mw... There YOU have it. I have not fou...

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I used to change them to fixed at 26, but more recently, I've left them at default.

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Up until this point, I've not really tested prior to install... When we first began working with MT, we tested setup's on the test bench with some small patch antenna's.. Then we developed the standard setup for AP's, Backhauls with WDS bridges, Client CPE's with NAT, and Client CPE's with WDS bridg...

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I've NEVER had issues before with MT hardware. Have any idea about warranty / RMA's?

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I'm really starting to get worried. R52H failed yesterday on a tower install. It had been running great for 5 months. Most of the failures have happened in a few days of install though. It looks like about 10% failure rate. Almost all of them are in Rootena (R2T58W-19) installs in RB133's. None are ...

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We have our fiber point 2 miles from our NOC, so we have a two seperate links, using OSPF for fallover.. Works flawlessly. The primary link (R52 cards in mini-itx system) holds 35mb tcp each way, simplex. About to switch to Nstreme dual to get full duplex. The backup link is two RB532's. Then an RB5...

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We used to use the plastic dryer vent covers from Lowes, (not the one with the hose, just the plastic cover) The will get brittle after a couple of years and have had hail crack them. More recently, we've cut a small piece of sheet metal and some stips of wood for spacers on three sides, then silico...

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Several years ago, I wrote a foxpro DOS program to take the data from our core MT router with the Log Downloader program. Of late, my program has died and wanting a better solution to give accounting department for bandwidth usage per IP address. The traffic counter program seems quirky-- is that th...

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Got in the new MSI Fuzzy 945GM1 mini-itx.. MiniPCI plus 2 Intel Ethernet ports... The ethernet ports don't show up under interfaces in MT 2.9.35 The actual spec say"Supports Dual Intel® 10/100/1000 LAN by two Intel® 82541PI Giga- LAN controller" I find nothing in the Phoenic bios about the...

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Bingo... that did it.. unchecked the port box and I see the stream...

Thanks!!!

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My router that I'm having this trouble on is actually 2.9.22

Went to a MT radio in-between though and monitored traffic on torch there and still didn't see it though.. It's 2.9.31

Randall

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I have all the boxes checked. I've looked at it on both the In interface and the out interface...

I ran the packet sniffer and found it there though...

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I've got a customer behind a MT router, that is saying that we are blocking GRE packets in his VPN tunnel. I'm blocking some basic ports, like 137, but I don't see where I'm blocking this.. He's running a juniper firewall on his end, and I think that's where the problem is... Any ideas or anything I...

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I've got a couple of customers that have been maxing out a simple queue on my main MT router, but when I go run torch, I can't see any activity.... Normally, I can locate the source (or destination) of the traffic that way. ...

any other ideas?

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We will be backhauling 15mb initially to this fiber point. I haven't done any routing on our network beyond our MT box that connects to our current ethernet handoff. (One ethernet up port on their IP, then 4 ethernet ports, each with a class C each that they point to us) I really want to do more sub...

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I've been using MT for backbone router for 4 years, and all bridged Karlnet and Canopy BH's and AP's. We've started replacing most BH's with MT radios using WDS. We're looking at a new backbone connection that would require a wireless link to Fiber location.. We will also have to re-number our IP sp...

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I've found the pwr requirements: R52 400ma SR5 1300ma All I've found for the RB14 is: "Up to 2.5w of 3.3v power supplied to Mini PCI card" Anyone know if this is per slot, or total.. And also, my math is not my best ability.. is it .4 x 3.3 = 1.32 watts? 1.3 x 3.3 = 4.29 watts? If my math ...

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I changed the dns-name to blank.
Still didn't work.

I went through the 'setup' routine again.

Now it works.

Go figure....

Thanks everybody

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Actually I'm on vacation.. RB112 has second card - acquiring Internet through hotel wireless and dhcp client. RB112 can ping and resolve dns. Hotspot assigns their dns addresses. Test laptop does have dns.... will resolve to ip.. I've tried typing in the gateway IP in the browser. Nothing. Question-...

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Connection tracking is enabled.. that's not it.... My test is on a routerboard 112. straight out of the box. enabled dhcp and hotspot packages. Setup wlan1 and ip addresses, and ran hotspot setup. Again, laptop connects to rb112 and gets ip address per the pool assigned in hotspot setup. no pinging....

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Problem is that I can't get to a login page on client computer... Can't ping hotspot. Browser can't get anything. Hotspot wlan1 ip is 192.168.100.1 pool1 is 192.168.100.100-192.168.100.150 test laptop get's 192.168.100.150 and gateway. I'm sure Im missing something basic. Do I need to setup web prox...

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I've just tried my first Hotspot setup. Followed steps in wiki example.

Client laptop gets the ip address correctly from hotspot. Can't ping the gateway.

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Added the ports on both ends for both rules...
Works great now.

Thanks

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Here are the three rules... Masquerade, then the remote desktop, then finally one to allow me to get into router through winbox from outside. This is my home router..... 0 chain=srcnat out-interface=wlan1 action=masquerade 1 chain=dstnat dst-address=12.195.xx.xxx dst-port=3189 action=dst-nat to-addr...

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The topic on Nstreme bonding has got me curious. I'd like to try using multiple wireless cards on each end and test bonding.

Is there any more wireless specific examples other than the Bonding section on manual that refers to Ethernet bonding between multiple ISP's?

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Wondering if there are any DS3 cards that are reliable under MT

Currently have an ethernet handoff from provider, but my have to switch to DS3 directly.

Thanks

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I have a similar issue - the 1st rule forwards great, but then I obviously can't get into router remotely, so I've tried adding rules to forward port 8291 (winbox) to the private side IP. I've setup according to example /ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat dst-address=10.5.8.200 action=dst-nat \ to-add...

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Nevermind --- didn't realize demo key doesn't support wireless.

bought Key

Now it works...

Stupid me...

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I was going to test Athlon Box - installed latest ISO on 64MB Diskmodule Demo Key Installed RB11 (older unit) and a new R52 MiniPCI The Atheros R52 does not show up under Interface, however, I do see it under /system/resources/pci Switched to another AMD box, same problem. Any ideas? I tested using ...

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I've noticed that performance on some of my backhauls will be lousy after been up for several days, although the same SNR etc... I reboot the AP-Bridge and the rates are back to great.

We've seen similar issues in the past with other platforms like Karlnet.

Any ideas?

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I may have found my problem... The customer said he could ping the other side, but when he tried to transfer files, it would hang. I setup and tested a Ipip tunnel from two test radios. I noticed that when I transfered files, it was on port 445, which I had put a filter on our core router to block b...

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The customers' 'hot bricks' are actually using L2TP/IPSec. So does that mean it should be working. Again, the vpn tunnel is up, but crashes when they try to open files. I have RB112 in place at one end, and was planning on replacing Karlnet radio with RB112 on other end. Have thought about setting u...

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I guess what I was trying to do would require Netbios. I've got it to work, I have to type in the network address in the Add Network Place wizard in Winxp. What I've ended up with- Router1 address's wlan1 xx.xx.xx.189 ether1 192.168.254.1 Router2 address's wlan1 xx.xx.xx.181 ether1 192.168.1.1 I've ...

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Newbie question-
I've setup a ipip tunnel between two MT boxes, assigned ip's, routes etc and can ping between the two different internal networks.

I can't figure out how to get to the file server on the other end... i.e. the whole point of a vpn.

HELP!

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I have a customer that I have connected via RB112 with Src and Dst Nat and given his 'Hot Brick' VPN router a private address. On the other end, his 'Hot Brick' has a public IP. He has enabled IPsec and Netbios on his routers. Much to his dismay, the VPN established just fine. However, it drops the ...

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Thanks... Haven't wondered that far down the /ip menu!

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I've replaced a bunch of backhauls with MT setups and started adding MT Ap's, and have not noticed a lot more of these on the network. - src-255.255.255.255 port-5678(discovery) dst-MT board Ip address I thought those were DHCP clients trying to get dhcp, but I don't have DHCP clients on any of the ...

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I've been testing RB112, RB153, and RB532. Performance is great on all, however, would like to test hardware for 'killer' backhaul. Would have to be fairly easy to build into outdoor enclosure. Any suggestions would be helpful!!! P.s. Only problem in testing is that RB153 will 'lock-up' often during...

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More info on this- when the RB153 locked up, it seems to take down everything plugged into the ethernet switch at the tower. Drops about 75% of the pings. Rebooted the power and everythings back to normal. I'm wondering if it's overloading the processor on RB153. I've setup graphing on resources. We...

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I've had this happen a bunch. Bandwith Server/Test between two RB153/SR5. Signal -63, 37 SNR, 18mb Data Rate. 150' POE w 49v 20 watt injector Bandwidth Test, especially when set to Both directions, radio will sometimes just drop link temp... but often the board set as server will have to be physical...

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I've had bad CAT5 cable.. caused the exact same problem. Good enough quality for 10mb, but not for 100mb. Also, have had water get into CAT5 run, will do the exact same thing.. Will notice that upload speed goes to nothing. Will often find the port switching back and forth between 10/100 trying to l...

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I've setup a test link between my office and a repeater site3 miles away RB153 with Atheros R52 on each end. A couple of workstations on each end doing constant ping to monitor link. Works great but locks up at least once a day. Can't ping either end. I can pwr cycle the AP side and then it comes ri...

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I've repeated the setup a couple of times for WDS and it is pretty simple.

If I want to setup as AP with several wireless clients, is this also the recomended setup?

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I followed the link from another post to
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Transpare ... o_Networks

I now can ping from a laptop through to my wired network.

If there is an easier way to do this, please post!!!

Thanks

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I've been running MT for core router for 3 years and have pretty good understanding. Now I'm trying to use it for wireless bridge. My test setup- I have RB153 w/ R52 Atheros plugged into network switch on one side, and RB153 w/ R52 plugged into my laptop on the other side. No problem making link, bu...

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