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Bomber67

Laser engraving is "cool" if only the size is proper ... can you imagine laser embossed light gray letters of the size 3pt? Yeah, like the Google mesh boxes. Struggled with one of these, the auth code I had was wrong. Turned out that the code was supposed to be found engraved in the matte...

Bomber67

What reallly confuses me is that upon every reboot, the disk I created on the USB stick changes between "usb1" and "usb2" so I have to change the settings ... Why isn't the name persistent? That issue may be connected to the USB storage device you are using, as an example some S...

Bomber67

While this was not always true (see docs)... if docker-1.docker.io is registry, you need to use "library/eclipse-mosquitto:latest". 7.18 made some changes... so new default is https://lscr.io and they also support using a "fully-qualified" remote-image that include the "hub...

Bomber67

What URL are you using for the registry-url in /container/settings? Sometimes using the fully qualified name (or sometimes not, i.e. without :latest) helps in remote-image= . Also make sure your running the latest stable version, since various past versions have had bugs in this area. It's in the c...

Bomber67

Nobody tried this?

Bomber67

Hi all, Get an error message when trying to install the Mosquitto container. Earlier I succeeded in installing the HA container on same RB, but on this one I'm stumped. Config: # 2025-04-22 10:03:44 by RouterOS 7.18.2 # software id = * # # model = RB5009UPr+S+ # serial number = * /container mounts a...

Bomber67

Can you please share your current config of the CAPsMAN? /export file=anynameyoulike Remove serial and any other private info, post between code tags by using the </> button. Afraid that in my desperation I threw away that particular cfg when factory-resetting and moving to a dedicated controller, ...

Bomber67

CAPsMAN is indeed intended as central management. Yes I know, and what I intend to achieve is exactly that. If your only problem is frequencies, you could either make a configuration per radio (with a fixed frequency) or start using releselect-interval. The latter will (background) scan if the freq...

Bomber67

I am a little puzzled by the way local wifi interfaces are treated with CapsMan in ROS7 With CapsMan in ROS6 I used localhost 127.0.0.1 for referring to Capsman controller on same RB, and local interfaces were treated just like remote. In ROS7 I find the combination of settings a little confusing. I...

Bomber67

and to be clear seeming using "remote-image=homeassistant/home-assistant" does NOT work, the tag must be specified (and match a valid tag on DockerHub), thus the ":latest" at the end. Here I don't understand you....appearently a "branch" (or what you call it) named &qu...

Bomber67

MT Support suggested Netinstall to clean things up. No way I could get the RB3011 visible in Netinstall, despite “ether boot” in display.. so I moved to an RB5009. Netinstalled 7.17 on it, installed Container package. Based on at tip in from Amm0 I changed HA from branch “stable” to “latest”, instal...

Bomber67

Did you try using the fully qualified remote-image, i.e. including :latest. This worked to create HA on a RB1100AHx4, which 32-bit too. # SSD is at "raid1/" and layer-dir= and tmpdir= explicitly use the "real" disk /container/config set layer-dir=raid1/layers registry-url=https:...

Bomber67

Have you tried that? https://forum.mikrotik.com/search.php?keywords=home+assistant+container Yes of course I have searched the forum. And I have followed the guide in the MT Docs. The problem is that there is almost no error messages or log entries generated enabling me to trace down the error. The...

Bomber67

Lately I've been pulling my hair trying to install and start the Home Assistant container on a RB3011, but no success (described in another thread) So instead of trying to bury myself even deeper into the problems I think I'll rather raise my head, turn around, and ask you guys: Those of you that ha...

Bomber67

Have you tried to run without "layer-dir: usb1/layers"? Yes, that's what I tried until Amm0 suggested to specify it yesterday. As it is only visible in cli, not in Winbox, and also not mentioned in the docs, I was not aware of it until then. Do you have any idea why no extracted files sho...

Bomber67

I can see that an autosupout was created at the time the process halted..should I send it to MT for investigation? Perhaps a case at support@mikrotik.com. The path and layer-dir= is about the only knobs I know to try here... Make sure to generate a new supout.rif with the current state and include ...

Bomber67

Hmm. Can you also change tmpdir=usb1/pull in /container/config (settings), to remove that slash too? If that does not work, you could try to the the "layer-dir" in container settings this specifies where the layers are stored: /container config set layer-dir=usb1/layers Changed paths as p...

Bomber67

Try using root-dir=usb1/ha (without the leading /). RouterOS file paths do not start with a /, and while some item (like /container/mount) will ignore a leading slash /... root-dir= is very picky. Thank you for your reply :D Tried without the leading "/" but still no cigar. Extraction sto...

Bomber67

This is my config: # 2025-01-13 09:29:23 by RouterOS 7.16.2 # software id = ****-**** # # model = RB3011UiAS # serial number = ************ /container mounts add dst=/config name=ha_config src=/usb1/ha_config /disk set usb1 media-interface=none media-sharing=no /interface bridge add name=bridge-ha /...

Bomber67

Complete rookie when it comes to containers, Docker and DoH, but slowly trying to explore this somewhat blurry terrain... HW used is RB3011 with ROS 16.2, Sandisk 16GB USB3 stick. Basically I have followed the guide at https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/ROS/pages/204341276/Container+-+HomeAssista...

Bomber67

First of all, happy holidays! Watch the accompanying video first: https://youtu.be/sRLWcddMxIk Read our latest newsletter and learn more about: - cAP LTE12 ax - GPeRx4 - CSS318-16G-2S+IN - FTC21 - IoT updates - Return of the RB912: D.I.Y. Bestseller - New YouTube videos, and so much more! http://mt...

Bomber67

Return of the 912 device and who is it for? for a couple of individuals? Yes there are in fact interesting products here but I had to look at the calendar to be sure MT is not doing April fool...RB912 with an "n" radio, who on this planet needs this in 2025 when you can use RB922 or L11UG...

Bomber67

Hi Bomber. I’ve been trying for a few months to find feedback on new AX devices for use in a WISP setup, but I haven’t been able to find much information until now. Your post is like a beacon in the desert to me! I wanted to ask, what APs do you use, and what antenna do you pair with your L11UGs? D...

Bomber67

what is the maximum speed of rbm33g with RM502Q?

From what I've read there is some hw restriction related to MiniPCIe or m.2 or something, 400 Mbps?

Bomber67

Interesting, I still don't know of any success stories using the L11UG in WISP or long-distance environments. Could someone shed some light on this topic and help us configure it to replace our old AC access points? Yes this is an interesting topic. My impression is that ax performs better than ac,...

Bomber67

At a couple of occasions I have been notified by customers of poor wireless performance, and the reason turned out to be the AP being stuck at 6 or 7.3 Mbps. It looks like it does when configuration.distance is omitted for longer links, rates do not start "climbing" when pulling traffic. T...

Bomber67

hello, can you give us some examples output? just 1 line sample could be enough. Interface and ip address print, for the pppoe server and client. ip route, from the server to pppoe clients and where did you put your pppoe client Interface? on separate interface each - or in a broadcast bridge? Than...

Bomber67

For sectors with clients at 1-1.5km distance I have left the configuration.distance untouched. This morning I got complaints about speed and found that quite a few of the clients were stuck at 7.3 Mbps in one direction - some on uplink and some on downlink. APs (L11UG) has ran for some weeks now. Th...

Bomber67

I have 2 ISPs connected on WAN1 and WAN2. Next I have a /22 IP block that I can announce like /24 blocks on any of the ISP connections, that works fine. Internally I have PPPoE customers that are assigned addresses from these blocks, each of them then gets a /32 route in the main routing table. Earl...

Bomber67

Not really. ATL is closest you get, but only in Europe. The ATL is an interesting piece, but sadly the gain is rather poor in the lower bands, while it is good on 1800 and 2600. A little strange, since what you have chance to pick up in the outback is 800 and 900 MHz. In cities where the higher ban...

Bomber67

It still is a stupid thing to do, "Password after reset that is printed on the device." Excactly. That should have been the only fix to the password problem, by making the change mandatory if the current password is empty or "admin" or some other common value. Excactly. To me, i...

Bomber67

Actually, now I found it here: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/WiFi

Bomber67

In PtMP setups you can have different values on different nodes: The value should reflect the distance to the AP or station that is furthest from the device. So on hub node (PtMP AP) you need to have e.g. 3km, on station nodes whatever needed (on the farthest node 3km, on nearer nodes something low...

Bomber67

Yesterday I pulled my hair trying to get a 3 km link to work. RFE UD-24 and L11UG at both ends, 7.15.3. Rates were stuck at 6/7.3 Mbps, -45 to -50. Saw other devices on opposite side in /ip neighbor but no traffic or mac telnet. Replaced RB and Twistport adapter on both sides but to no avail. Then I...

Bomber67

Well, if some fella is sloppy… That's the thing: it isn't "some fella." There were around 250k compromised MT boxes in the 2021 Meris attack alone , creating enough traffic to nearly double Cloudflare's normal load . This isn't a problem for "some fella," it's a problem for ever...

Bomber67

The thing is, we tried that for a few decades, and the data are now in: there are millions of easily broken-into MT boxes out there. Unless your argument is that you should have to present a Practicing Engineer’s license at purchase time, I don’t accept your alternative as solving the problem. Well...

Bomber67

1) Yes, there were ambiguous character in the first batches, now new products are manufactured without chars that can be mixed up 2) Yes, initial stickers were low print quality, that has been improved 3) You can always get the password from the distributor or mikrotik, as the default password is k...

Bomber67

But where is CubeG-5ac60ay-SA and CubeG-5ac60ay?

Actually it is here: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/W60G

Bomber67

The data is hidden where very few people would look for it. In the w60g manual: Thanks! Don't know why I am not aware of this one. Particularly interesting is that angle is given for both "single pattern" and "full span" But where is CubeG-5ac60ay-SA and CubeG-5ac60ay? Actually ...

Bomber67

I have successfully rebuilt parts of my WISP network using CubeG-5ac60ay-SA for APs and CubeG-5ac60ay for clients, all within 500m range. Some of the clients are 26 degrees off while still maintaining 2.3 Gbps rate, confirming the SAs are really 60 degrees. For another site due for upgrade I have 15...

Bomber67

https://es.aliexpress.com/item/10050030 ... pt=glo2esp

This is the adapter?

Thanks and regards.

Looks very similar.
Actually I bought this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/264926721377
Guess as long as it is M.2 B key to MiniPCI-e with sim slot(s) you will be happy

Bomber67

Can you guys post some photos of your setups with the RBM33G with 5G :) ? It would be interessting to see how you built it. Here are pictures of my device: -RBM33G -MiniPCIe to M.2 B key adapter -Quectel RM502Q-AE M.2 card -4x MHF4 (?) to RP-SMA pigtails (very tiny little brother of u.fl.) -4x RP-S...

Bomber67

I am managing the network for a customer of mine. Technican of this company (and myself) uses Dude for monitoring the network. Now one employee needs read only access to Dude, specifically for simple monitoring one part of the network (devices up/down, traffic flow on interfaces) I have set up a use...

Bomber67

sure, I would argue against the use of 'trust' though, that implies they are untrustworthy and I wouldn't want that to be the implication. A lot of users/operators don't report certain things when there are other solutions. I'm not in here complaining about snow buildup on LHG because I have altern...

Bomber67

I would not go so far as to say it undermines trust... people have to say what they want and articulate it for vendors to understand. Just to make my point clear, we wont deploy LHGs. We will deploy discs and sxtsq. I hope we don't get put in the position where LHGs are the only option because that...

Bomber67

The arguments against LHG are unfounded. They are fully capable in strong wind and cold weather, actually more capable than DISC I really have to argue this because I've had them rip right off their mount in high winds and they fill up with snow really easily. I've not lost a single disc to wind an...

Bomber67

But do you get a radome cover for LHG XL?
https://www.lasershield.com.br/MLB-1522 ... shield-_JM

Thanks.
It will probably work well. But as we are talking about CPE, the price tag renders such a solution way out of scope.

Bomber67

Disc AX is on the way. There is AP (ax) viewtopic.php?t=202449

Have you got a clear indication of this?
Where?

Bomber67

The arguments against LHG are unfounded. They are fully capable in strong wind and cold weather, actually more capable than DISC Thank you for answering Normis, But do you get a radome cover for LHG XL? I cannot risk ice and snow buildup on the mesh of the LHG, that would render it unusable. IMHO I...

Bomber67

Currently 4-address implementation in wave2/wifi and wireless drivers are incompatible. And I don't see them getting compatible (it would likely break compatibility with early versions of wifi), I guess they would be compatible from the get go if that was an option. One thing is how future ax produ...

Bomber67

Via a friend (and my distributor) it has come to my attention that Mikrotik has EOLed the Disc Lite5 ac…. :shock: Replacement items are listed to be RBSXTsqG-5acD, and RBLHGG-5acD-XL larger distances. The two said devices are by no means good replacements for the Disc Lite5 ac. :( The SXTsq can do f...

Bomber67

like said above, ask the distributors. we have stock for a while now, since summer at least. most likely distributor through nobody wants those devices and did not order Normis, It has come to my attention that the Disc Lite5 ac is EOL...and stores are already emptied for it. This has been my versa...

Bomber67

Sorry for my ignorance! I am using bridge vlans on the CRS3** series and it works perfectly well - everything done in hardware and no CPU load. Until now I have not touched anything under /interface ethernet switch Now I would like to shape the trunk port of a switch, and according to the docs: http...

Bomber67

Today I upgraded 3 different Dude servers to 6.49.8, one on RBM33G and two on RB1100AHx4 Dude ed. After upgrade and install of Dude package, Dude client works fine against all 3, and I can access dude config using /dude in CLI on the RBM33G, but on the RB1100AHx4 routers it is missing. Before upgrad...

Bomber67

It sits in my cabin, so I cannot take a picture right here, but will do next time on site. The setup comprises: -RBM33G -MiniPCIe to M.2 B key adapter -Quectel RM502Q-AE M.2 card -4x MHF4 (?) to RP-SMA pigtails (very tiny little brother of u.fl.) -4x RP-SMA "blade" antennas -Oldschool RB43...

Bomber67

Suggest waiting until a certain war is over, out of respect.......... Kinda hard to be partying in Europe at the moment....... I think also, we are in the middle of flu+covid which doesnt help planning. Also until MT produces a zero trust cloudfare tunnel package, not much to talk about ;-) Its fin...

Bomber67

You make yourself worse, it seems to me... I don't know Serbian, but I had perfectly understood what was written without translate.... What's technical about being excited to have it done in own country? Well, I can see it says something about Serbia and MUM, maybe one could have guessed the messag...

Bomber67

Pardon my french, but isn't this an english speaking forum? Che palle... This is a forum for discussing Mikrotik, and the topic is about the possibility for MUMs, not a training session for Google translate. So please don't contaminate the forum with all kinds of messages in rare languages....

Bomber67

Će li bude mum 2023 in SERBIA makar da se vidimo

Pardon my french, but isn't this an english speaking forum?

Bomber67

Trying to make a link with failover. In each end there is a Powerbox Pro, to which I have connected an nRay to ether2 and an SXT ac to ether3 RSTP bridge in each end works fine, bridge priority to 4000 makes the bridge of the "Master" powerbox root bridge. On master (AP) end, ether2 has pr...

Bomber67

Temporarily downgrading to PHP 7.4 made it work

Any thoughts on what must be done to the script to be compliant with PHP 8.2 ?

Bomber67

Exploring NB-IOT and GNSS tracking I have a setup based on the following Wiki article: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:GPS-tracking Basically, the KNOT runs a script that obtains LAT/LON/ELE from the BG77 and posts it via http to a web server running the PHP part of the script in the article. ...

Bomber67

+1 MUM@Kyïv The MUM can't be done until there is something really new to show. With this shortage of chips, what do you expect us to show? Already in the bucket there are wireless components from 6 years ago... I guess everyone has their own reasons for attending the MUMs. New hardware is one possi...

Bomber67

Suggest waiting until a certain war is over, out of respect.......... Kinda hard to be partying in Europe at the moment....... I think also, we are in the middle of flu+covid which doesnt help planning. Also until MT produces a zero trust cloudfare tunnel package, not much to talk about ;-) Yes I u...

Bomber67

Soon 4 years since last Europe Mum - are there any plans for 2023?
Haven't seen any announcement from MT on this.

Bomber67

From practice, the optimal load is up to 15 active clients per radio interface.

Apart from placing the APs so that roughly 1/3 of the chromebooks will connect to each automatically, how can I go about to restrict the number of clients on one cap? Or maybe "move" them to another one?

Bomber67

tx-power= 26 Mikrotik does not release WiFi access points that can operate at this power without reducing the transmission speed. Noted, have reduced Tx power to 20 for 2.4, making 17 dBm show at the AP. The reason for cranking it up was that customer complained about "medium signal strength&q...

Bomber67

Can you share your config? /export file=anynameyoulike (and remove any personal information). Thank you! Here is my config anonymized (any comments are appreciated): Controller: # jan/11/2023 06:24:32 by RouterOS 6.49.7 # software id = ****-**** # # model = RBM33G # serial number = F0EB0***** /caps...

Bomber67

I don't think there is much you can do. Ensure multicast helper and keepalive is disabled, try setting basic rates to 6+12+24 instead of 6 only. If none of this helps: Go for another vendor. Thank you for your tips! Tried to explicitly disable multicast helper and keepalive now (instead of default ...

Bomber67

Hi all! For a customer I have set up Capsman using ROS 6.49.7, RBM33G as controller and 3x cAP ac as caps, 2.4 and 5 GHz (40 Mhz), clear channel. Local forwarding. He is hooking up approx 40 pcs Chromebooks at a time to do some updates/SSD erasing and complains that in between wireless is slow, for ...

Bomber67

i found very difficult to get a device like KNOT which is a Fully Functional Router / Gateway with a Power consumption below the 2 Watts you confirmed to us Exactly. And that leads me to think that it is primarily intended to be some kind of IOT hub and not an IOT device itself - like you suggest. ...

Bomber67

...strange that Mikrotik haven't paid more attention to power consumption on an IoT device. i think KNOT is not a IoT device itself, is a Gateway for other IoT devices, it is expected to be available for the IoT devices to connect to it, in fact you are confirming KNOT has a very low Power usage i ...

Bomber67

Energy saving and IoT are just the opposite. It is absurd to think of saving energy by using the IoT, as there are even more devices to power than before. Yuo can't use LoRaWAN for your needs? Yes, of course will more added sensors require more power. But this is not about that, what I'm considerin...

Bomber67

Thank you for your tips chechito and mada3k :-) Of course running the entire application on an Arduino would be an option, but you know I love Mikrotik and RouterOS...strange that Mikrotik haven't paid more attention to power consumption on an IoT device. I could very well have traded CPU performanc...

Bomber67

I am developing an application based on the KNOT, using GNSS and NB-IOT data transmission. It is supposed to stay idle for a period, then send a very small amount of data to a server and revert to "idle". The BG77 chip contains features for saving power, for instance flight mode and Power ...

Bomber67

Armed with vast amounts of black coffee I attacked this problem once again this morning at 0600 hrs. :D It turned out that for some reason my SIM-card won't connect properly using access technology = pure NB-IOT Replacing the init string with AT+QCFG="iotopmode",0,1 (Cat-M) or AT+QCFG=&quo...

Bomber67

Not directly related to your problem: I see that your config includes bonding of the 60G interface itself, I didn't know I could do it that way? In the default setup for the preconfigured Cube 60 kit the station interface is included as both primary and slave in the bonding. As station interfaces a...

Bomber67

AP 60ghz config: /interface w60g set [ find ] disabled=no frequency=66960 isolate-stations=no name=AP-60Ghz put-stations-in-bridge=bridge region=usa ssid=myap /interface bonding add mode=active-backup name=bond1 primary=AP-60Ghz slaves=AP-60Ghz,AP-5Ghz Client 60ghz config: /interface w60g set [ fin...

Bomber67

Good evening guys, When I finally got hold of a coupe of IOT enabled SIM cards (without PIN), this morning I started to explore PPP connection over NB-IOT/CAT-M using the Knot (Quectel BG77). Operator is Norwegian Telenor. ROS version is 7.5. First it wouldn't connect but then after some fiddling I ...

Bomber67

Finally I got all hardware puzzled together and managed to fire up my RBM33G with the Quectel RM502Q-EA in an M.2 B Key to MiniPCI-e adapter. :-) When dealing with 2.4 and 5GHz Wifi I never leave an antenna connector open when powering up, just to not risk damage to the RF module. But what about 4G ...

Bomber67

Hello! I am planning to switch from LTE to 5G. Right now i got a RBM33G with a USB3 Adapter and a Sierra EM7565 LTE modem on it - all together with a XPOL-2-5G 2x2 Mimo Antenna. I read in your posts about the Quectel RM500Q-AE working on the RBM33G and started to plan to buy this Modem as it is ava...

Bomber67

You will definitely need to use a PCIe to M.2 B-Key adapter. Cell modems are all B key, M-key is only useful for storage as far as I know. Can you provide info on your pigtails for the cell antennas? I'm trying to get The RM500Q-GL working in an RB of some sort (wanted to use a wAP-G, but there isn...

Bomber67

M11G and M33G with m.2 adapter can run a Quectel RM50x series of 5G cards. Signal is depend from antenna you use, and how you connect the antennas in order. To watch a signals I recommend script from https://confusedbird.com/thread-123.html called: MIMO Layer Signal Readings I apologize for my shee...

Bomber67

MikroTik has been posting about this for weeks on their social media channels.
https://twitter.com/mikrotik_com/status ... 3wvtED_xSA

Since when is Twitter their official channel of information?

Bomber67

Because MT can create good PR. But it is much more likely to create bad PR! When MikroTik write here "we have only 1000 chips of type X in stock and the next delivery will be in november", what do you think the reaction would be? "hey thank you for that info!"? I don't think so....

Bomber67

I do not see any "ridiculing" on what @IPANetEngineer has wrote Well, as I read it he is criticising mk47 because he is trying to get hold of a home router and kind of calls for empathy and guilt because that conflicts with MT donating gear to Ucraine.. I believe everybody supports MTs ac...

Bomber67

The fact that MIkroTik is shipping *anything* that does routing and switching puts them ahead of most every other network vendor on the planet. There's also a war on Lativa's doorstep. MikroTik donated hundreds of thousands of euros worth of equipment to help restore connectivity in Ukraine and sur...

Bomber67

So it's their decision.

Damn straight.

Bomber67

China has everyone [mfgs & vendors] by the short hairs ... geopolitics is causing a very significant realignment so until that is sorted out China will use all of its commercial weapons' to gain the upper hand. Since EVERYONE in this game relied on the very cheap labour that China offered and d...

Bomber67

As you say: the big boys don't, why would the smaller ones do it ? For what purpose ? To put the spotlights on themselves and take the heat ? Bad marketing... I completely understand why they do NOT mention anything. Ok, to me transparency vs customers is a good thing. But of course I respect your ...

Bomber67

mbovenka, holvoetn, pe1chl: For sure, misunderstanding other people's positions and intentions is easy.... :roll: Just to clarify: -Yes I have read quite a bit about it already -No, I don't blame Mikrotik for the problem -No, I dont think this is specific to Mikrotik, I am struggling with availabili...

Bomber67

For context, some of the clients we work for that use Cisco and Juniper have an average of more than 1-year lead time for most equipment and some are even getting close to a 2-year lead time. So the fact that we can still buy MikroTik inventory at all is pretty amazing compared to the rest of the n...

Bomber67

I guess everybody now are facing problems related to hardware availability. 12-18 months ago we were struggling with the Disc Lite ac - lead times up to 6 months, then things appeared to improve a tad, but now we have the worst situation I've seen throughout my 15 years as a Mikrotik user. Especiall...

Bomber67

NAND memory does have some unused blocks for repairing/replacing failed sectors. This happens on write, when attempting to write bad block, it will be redirected to reserved memory and replaced with good block instead. And everything will work just fine, as long as the corruption is not widespread ...

Bomber67

beware of bad ideas punishing the storage like running the dude or ludicrous logging or scripts constantly creating files

those are specially bad for this small 128mb storage

Just firewalling/shaping and PPPoE concentrator.
Dude runs on RB1100AHX2 Dude Ed. with MSata

Bomber67

First thing first, connect via console cable and look at it before netinstall. I suspect from ram instead of nand. Ok, but file system is in NAND/NVRAM, right? Doesn't that point towards problems there? RAM is purely (volatile) working memory and as long as it ran (for 12 days since reboot) it func...

Bomber67

Couple of weeks ago my main router CCR1072 rebooted without any known reason and sent me an autosupout file - which I did not took any notice from (probably bad "descision"). Yesterday I discovered that somehow the admin password was cleared, made me fear it had been compromised somehow. I...

Bomber67

no. No hope in mikrotik wisp wireres....

But do you know what is the barrier?
Both MT and their customers would benefit from competetive wireless solutions!!

Bomber67

Nobody?
Uldis?

Bomber67

First of all: I am a big Mikrotik fan since 2006, and running a small WISP I use MT gear for almost everything. I love the versatility and the possibility to do whatever you desire. And yet it is simple to use, and of course affordable. But when it comes to PtP links (backhaul) I must admit that a f...

Bomber67

While the Pwr-line AP PL7411-2nD has an indication of link quality, there is apparently no such indication in the Pwr-Line PRO. A Pwr-line AP is a good idea for extending a WLAN but in several ways PL7411-2nD falls short: -Only 802.11n -Low output power -Prone to failure: I have had several of these...

Bomber67

We have much improved disk read/write speeds in the new v7 beta that will be coming out soon. Thank you Normis, You expect that it will be possible to run Dude DB on MicroSDHC or USB3 under ROS7? Has this been tested and confirmed? That said, after swapping the MSata SSD that came with my RB1100AHx...

Bomber67

3) Ditch the RB1100. For a Dude Edition people can use an USB stick in a RB4011v2 I have been experimenting with Dude server on various routerboards, both MicroSDHC (fastest type) and very fast USB3 sticks, and it does not work. Bottleneck appears to be read/write to Dude DB, performance is terribl...

Bomber67

Yesterday I configured yet another Disc Lite5 ac (with a 74:4D:28: MAC) , and discovered for the first time that this item also has a 2.4GHz radio , just like the SXT Lite5 ac used to have... Has this change in hardware been announced somewhere? I cannot find it. Not that it bothers me,I have never ...

Bomber67

I am running a CCR1072 equipped with 2x S31DLC20D for WANs, 1x S+31DLC10D for VLAN trunk to rooftop PoE switch, and 3x S-RJ01 for internal connections. Lately I have seen strange beaviour, probably triggered by power outages on connected devices or maybe power disturbances. When connected devices go...

Bomber67

I hate people who can't understand why events are postponed/canceled. Good look to you and lets hope, that this will pass as soon as it can!

Best wishes

Is there anybody who doesn't understand the MUM postponings?
Let me hear!

Bomber67

Would be indeed great to have a live stream with new products announcements on the 26th of March!
For now I keep the 26th free it in my calendar!

Nah, I'd rather go to Prague for a real MUM once the virus has retired

Bomber67

• CRS354-48P-4S+2Q+RM – a 48 port PoE+ switch for 40 Gbps setups

Nice! Finally it's here

Just one wonder, why is this powered by a 650 MHz MIPSBE CPU?
Not that it's going to be used for CPU consuming task, but that looks like a step down from 800 MHz ARM in the CRS328?

Bomber67

What SFP + modules are used, what is their temperature?

So far no modules added, but will use std MT 10G modules.
Will temp readings from modules be evaluated by RB/ROS for fan control?

Bomber67

About to install a CCR1072 and I see (and hear) that all 4 fans run at about 4500-5000 rpm, even at 39°C CPU temperature. In /system health in Winbox no buttons/settings available. In CLI I tried to change fan-control to Auto, but it does not change. I remember same behavior on some CRS device, fans...

Bomber67

Have you not read the above answers to your questions? Since I see repetition of the same flawed arguments. 1. looking at files is not verification 2. RouterOS does internal verification that is much better than looking with your eyes 3. if you want to do some advanced checksum operations, you stil...

Bomber67

"Our" problem is that the subset of users who gather here on the forum is only a small subset of users to which MikroTik sell equipment. Of course they are the tech savvy users who get MikroTik to get things done the cannot get done on equipment from other manufacturers in the same market...

Bomber67

Why packages are downloaded in a different directory? - If there are other .npk files under the "Files" menu, then upgrade will fail What to do, if I want to cancel upgrade? - Use "/system package update cancel" feature What to do if I want to verify packages after download? - F...

Bomber67

The topic has been raised before, but with little response. In Winbox we have access to virtually everything in /dude, so it is there already, but using CLI only a few params are available. It would be very convenient to be able to use scripting to access the data. I would like to use it both ways, ...

Bomber67

We are not office secretaries, we are techs, and we want to see what we are actually doing!
Going this way, you'll soon start asking to remove Quick Set from default package

Quickset doesn't bother me at all, what bothers me is not being able to see what I need to see

Bomber67

Can anyone post reasonable reason why it's important? Verification that file is downloaded is plain strange. If you don't trust the auto-upgrade mechanism, use Fetch, or use other more reliable ways. I'll turn the question around, could you provide a good reason why they should to be hidden? I'm no...

Bomber67

Maybe I should have cleaned my glasses, but I cannot find "Full CLI access to /dude in RouterOS" on the list? This has been addressed on the forum before, and I am surprised that it is not yet implemented, as everything is in Winbox already.... I am planning to configure the Dude as a more...

Bomber67

i want to do mass password change at rb devices from dude map but after execute scripts that change password at all devices. The old password will be still at dude maps in devices properities and i must change it at all devices placed at maps manually... how i can fix it? Did you find a solution to...

Bomber67

ivicask: This is something that puzzles me as well: MT try to save dimes by adding Fast Ethernet NICs instead of GB, use plastic RJ45 sockets that break in the cold (RB711 and indeed a long time ago, eventually they realized the failure but still....), failed to add buzzers to many of their RBs, fai...

Bomber67

I know you don't sponsor. But for most (all?) of the MUMs I have attended, you have negotiated special rates that we got using a registration code. A number of rooms were reserved, not booked. Booking was made indiviually by the attendants on a first come, first serve basis. However, I will look at ...

Bomber67

Thank you Normis, I will look.
However, considering the number of attendants, I assume that Mikrotik has the power to negotiate a good price in one ore more hotels..?
Also convenient to stay close to where other attendants are.

Bomber67

Normis, have you negotiated a special rate for accomodation during the Prague MUM? Where?
As far as I can see the hotel part of O2 will not open until 2021.

Bomber67

Normis: When will the CRS356 finally hit the surface? It was presented as upcoming already at the Berlin MUM some 17 months ago ;-) never, CRS356 never even exist.... however crs354 should be available around q4 this year Yes, I wrote wrong name, corrected my post, sorry. Somehow I believed that na...

Bomber67

Normis: When will the CRS354 finally hit the surface?
It was presented as upcoming already at the Berlin MUM some 17 months ago

Bomber67

provided the boards hardware is capable of that https://www.mediatek.com/products/homeNetworking/mt7621n-a the sheet for the SoC doesn't say it has SATA controller - and for msata (regardless whether mpcie or m.2 for factor) ssds this is a must. pcie ssds can be supported if the mmips train has nvm...

Bomber67

Thanks a lot Kliwer! 3D printer ordered!

Bomber67

For quite a while I have had a stack of unused SXT sq's sitting in my shelf..mostly because of the pre 6.42 nv2 issues that has been going on. One of the first things i saw when looking at this model is that unfortunately it lacks a decent bracket compatible with the round shaped SXT. Now that it ha...

Bomber67

On the download page https://mikrotik.com/download only version 2.7 for the CSS switches are available.
There are still lots of old 260GS/GSP around, where is download for these (1.17)?

Bomber67

This really puzzles me... -All switches interconnected are CRS-106 with 6.41rc56 -All have the same config as posted above (only IP and name differs) -Multiple connections directly between same two switches and multiple "paths" via other switches -No equipment connected for the time being ...

Bomber67

Seems you're mixing old "switch configs" and "bridge" configs. The regular STP (RSTP) or new MSTP implementation works fine for me w/6.41rc based switches connected to Cisco switching. The Cisco switching is running MSTP on some and RSTP on others to try and highlight compatibil...

Bomber67

In this post I describe what is my problem: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=127500&p=626795#p626795 Long story short, I have got advise from support to try 6.41rc with the new bridge concept and hardware offloading. Support says that maybe the problem was due to broadcasts bot...

Bomber67

Good afternoon guys, hope you can help me on this: Description: In a project I am deploying a number of CRS-106-1C-5S using a fiber ring topology for redundancy. There are a number of “outer rings” with junction switches connected via SFP3 and SFP4. In addition, between these there are “subrings” co...

Bomber67

The mUPS is a great idea: small, simple and affordable, and you can use batteries of your own choice. The running time of course depends on the size of the batteries, you decide. On most sites I don't really need 2A.. But I think MT did not quite make it there when the mUPS is unable to supply a RB2...

Bomber67

OK, so it was correct, that home use devices do not have any way of attaching a external antenna unless you do modifications. And the type of connector in these devices are just test points ? I know about the other equipment, I just feel that most of the new hardware that MikroTik has on offer is t...

Bomber67

Disappointing that the mUPS is unable to deliver more than 0,7A at 24V. Thougt it to be the ideal device for implementing custimized backup power for my stations, and mounted one this morning while upgrading one of them. Easy to leave a big 12v lead battery, achieving many hours operation during uti...

Bomber67

becs,

Have you got the time to comment on my last post please?

Bomber67

Thank you Zerobyte.

I am running CapsMan on the site in question, with separate networks for employees and users (children).
Is it possible to configure UPnP using CapsMan? I mean add the capsman bridge as internal interface?

Bomber67

Thank you BartoszP, Firstly, I got a little scared that your account was hacked and the link was a virus, but opened on phone, all ok :-) From the article: "To make the firewall/router from strict to open, actually Microsoft′s devices looking for three UDP ports to be properly routed. If you ca...

Bomber67

Client complains he is unable to play online, message he gets is something about "Strict NAT" But what does this actually mean? Certain ports being blocked? If memory serves, games in question are COD and Rainbow 6. Maybe this brings us into another related topic, about "opening ports...

Bomber67

becs, I tried this yesterday, but I can't get it to work quite as expected. Using vlans from /interface vlan and plain bridges I achieved full failover. Pulling any fiber only caused the connection to halt for a few seconds, then it was back on track using another one. Using the switch chip with the...

Bomber67

Thank you becs, perfect!
I'll give it a shot right away

Bomber67

RSTP on the bridges works so smoothly...I can pull out and replug any fiber and it always re-establishes the connection....however it is more elegant to use the switch chips, and it removes CPU load.

So guys: How to achieve loop protection using the switch chip????

Bomber67

I am deploying a number of CRS-106-1C-5S using a fiber ring topology for redundancy. Each end of the ring is connected to the sfp ports of a CRS212-1G-10S-1S+. I have set up VLANs using the switch chip in the switches (Both CRS106 and CRS112). However I'm experiencing loops, bringing the loop/broadc...

Bomber67

How is this "pain" exactly? Goes without saying Normis... Having to configure the Dude to load Windows from a local location is very inconvenient. We are running Dude clients on several machines connecting to a Dude server on an RB1100AHX4 Dude ed. When we create a global Tool in the Dude...

Bomber67

I am using Mangle and Queue trees for shaping my customers. As traffic is increasing I have got a feeling that throughput is somehow restricted at some point. I can see that the %CPU is rising, and the vast of it is consumed by the firewall. Therefore I am thinking of optimizing my mangle rules and ...

Bomber67

Removed - Since default Winbox used in the Dude wasn't fully compatible with all RouterOS devices, we removed i completely. I've previously asked this in another thread here but I'll continue in this thread instead. My question to MT is then: If the Winbox included in the Dude wasn't compatible and...

Bomber67

Thank you Alex, I'll join in there

Bomber67

To my surprise this bug was still around in 6.37.5, but after upgrading to 6.38.7 it finally works as expected

Strange that such a bug remains unsolved for so long

Either way, thank you MT!

Bomber67

Thank you guys,

So no chance to have the Winbox instances behave as Dude processes?
Sometimes it is convenient to right-click on the Dude symbol, select "Close all windows" and let all the timed-out Winbox-windows follow the Dude down the drain, without having to click each..

Bomber67

Just got my hands on the RB1100AHX4 Dude Ed and installed current 6.39.2 on it. Configured The Dude and imported my DB, looks like everything runs smoothly :-) Finally I think I have found my platform...unlike everything else I have tried the M.2 disks are able to swallow away all the data written b...

Bomber67

I gave the AFs a shot and found that the link was easily able to handle 400+ Mbps. So maybe I was fooled by something regarding the BW test in Winbox? Any idea? Either way I am now running AFs for my main link ifperf is nothing that I know of, haven't tested. Here is the output of the interface stat...

Bomber67

Thinking loud.... :? ..Am I right when I assume that the link can be considered as one homogenous, transparent L2 connection...straight from the vlan in the CCR1036 to the Ether11 on the CCR1016? A kind of "virtual cable"? And then, what can possibly slow it down in one direction, but not ...

Bomber67

Both directions stick at highest modulation, 6X (64QAM MIMO) with estimated throughput of 775 Mbps. Downlink (towards my CCR1016) is even a few dBs better than the opposite, 63/61 vs 65/66 dBm. So I still suspect this to be about Fastpath vs Slowpath. For info, I see the same thing on a second licen...

Bomber67

I tried to add a rule to the output chain, marking traffic on the actual vlan for Fasttracking.
Counters are updated, but still no joy.

CPU still at a few % on CCR1016, not even one single core running full.

So anyone?

Bomber67

Thank you Zerobyte, Well I guess I cannot disagree with you on your views on BW test methods. But I believe CPU consumption should not be the real issue here, as when traffic is generated by the less powerful CCR1016, I get a speed close to the theoretical maximum of the AFs. I guess I need some enl...

Bomber67

For a main link I have the following setup: Setup.jpg Main router with internet connection is a CCR-1036, from this one I run fiber as VLAN trunk carrying numerous VLANS to a CRS-125 on the rooftop. CRS: /interface vlan add comment="Link Airfiber" interface=sfp-sfpplus2 name=\ vlan-LinkAir...

Bomber67

Ok, so I'm not allowed to throw the same bucket of channels to all Caps and tell each of them to pick the clearest channel among them?

Bomber67

How can I add more than one predefined channel to the CapsMan configuration???
The dropdown list does not allow for this (6.36.4)

Bomber67

Thank you Pukkita, I'll give 6.37.5 a shot when I have the time. Yes I have scanned, there is a fair amount of other APs around, but Capsman selects the "cleanest" channel individually for each cap, right? Being a WISP in the area I am kinda reluctant to deploying 5GHz APs...more than enou...

Bomber67

At a customer I have a Capsman Installation consisting of a controller running on an RB850x2, and 5 caps spread around his residence/office. A mix of RB751, RB951, wAP ac and hAP ac. As can be seen from below I have deployed 2 networks on each radio, one Master for business and one slave for residen...

Bomber67

Thank you Coylh, I'll give it a shot when I get the time

Bomber67

Hello folks, I am struggling with CapsMan and the wAP ac If I omit the Channel setting in CapsMan Configuration, both radios on each wAP is employed, but with auto channel, and maximum channel width, i.e. 80MHz for 5GHz. I would like to predefine which channels to use, and channel width. If I try to...

Bomber67

Thank you for the tip, maybe I'll give one of them a chance.

But do you have answers to my questions? For the time being these numbers are pure guessing for me.

Bomber67

Thanks Murmaider, Actually tonight I stumbled across the last forum post you link to. I have now swapped the drop rule for a blackhole route. But I still have to detect src/dst addresses for the attacks and mangle the packets, that will have a CPU impact as well? I have played a little bit more arou...

Bomber67

Spoke too soon guys...this weekend the problems returned.
For those interested I decided to open another thread covering what I believe is the solution: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php ... 26#p573712

Bomber67

Like I described in This thread I have been struggling with sudden PPPoE disconnects for about half of my customers. Message in log is "..peer not responding". It has been kinda hard to see a pattern in what happened, disconnects occured at very irregular intervals, suddenly everything was...

Bomber67

Until now I have been running on a PC and it works fine. Monitoring 500 routerboards, SNMP probes for system name, ROS version, firmware, uptime, CPU/memory/disk, along with ping. Today I installed ROS 6.37.3 with Dude server on a hEX with 16 GB MicroSD. Sandisk HC I. Uninstalled old Dude client and...

Bomber67

Ape: Thanks for your reply and sorry for late reply from me. Somehow a reboot of various routerboard in the "path" solved the problem, now the PPPoE connections are rock solid :-) Yes I use conntracker, but only static routing. Regarding using LDP and VPLS, I have tried this toghether with...

Bomber67

I run a network with nearly 350 clients connected via PPPoE over EOIP. I run a fully routed underlying network with a bunch of EOIP tunnels, one to each AP These tunnels are bridged to the customer wireless interfaces on the APs, and on the server side they are bridged together in groups based on ar...

Bomber67

Unfortunately, this bug is still around...
Now on 6.34.6, I have a few time based rules for another customer, and when time reaches the time window that one of the rules should block, the rule stays red instead of being employed.
Any chance that this can be fixed soon?

Bomber67

Come on guys, I know some of you are doing fetch upload to ftp!
So how do you perform an integrity check?

Bomber67

Hi all, I run a couple of scheduled scripts on my routers. Script 1 runs at 0200 hrs and makes a backup file and an export file Script 2 runs every hour throughout the day (0230, 0330 etc). It checks for backup files and export files and upload them to an FTP server (NAS) using fetch, before deletin...

Bomber67

Haven't seen multiband antenna with a pouch yet.
Go for the poynting XPOL, and the RB in a weathertight box.
Sierra MC7710 (discontinued) can be found on Ebay at an affordable price, and covers most of the bands. I use it in the RB912.

Bomber67

*bump*

This is still a problem.
Typically after a power outage, the RB951Ui can't detect the PoE load properly (detects short?) and blinks red.

What can be done to overcome it?

Bomber67

That said, lowering TX power too much may introduce unwanted effects. In order to stay legal on a short link with 24dBi dishes, I went for 0dB TXPwr, but the wireless performance was poor, although I were in the low 50s. Uldis then told me that the chipsets are optimized to perform in the high end o...

Bomber67

Tried to export, remove and add via CLI, no use. Looks like at any time the rule should be employed - but isn't, it comes into effect by disabling/enabling it. For a workaround I added a script that is scheduled to run every 5 minutes. It iterates through the rules, and for every rule that is enable...

Bomber67

No, standalone ethernet, no switch, no bridge.

Bomber67

Still the same here too... Applied the following for another customer: /ip firewall filter add action=drop chain=forward comment="Drop 0000-0800 all days" dst-address=\ !*.*.86.2 in-interface=ether1 log=yes log-prefix=\ "DROP 0000-0800 ALL DAYS" src-address=!192.168.2.99 ...

Bomber67

Maybe upnp would do the trick if there is not multiple nat... Otherwise you need to get the correct port list to open. Thought I had the correct port list...however last time I tried it for another customer it complained about Strict NAT...Anyone that can confirm the port list? In this post: http:/...

Bomber67

Good morning all,
A customer is complaining he gets the message "Strict NAT" on his XBox one.
I have preiviously tried to solve the same problem for another customer by forwarding all the necessary incoming ports to his XBox, but no luck.

So what's the secret?

Bomber67

For simplicity I normally feed the CPE (Sextant with RB911 or similar) with PoE out from the customer's router RB951Ui. However, sometimes (typically after a power outage) the RB951Ui stops detecting the PoE load properly and just blinks red. Looks like it detects a short? The solution has usually b...

Bomber67

Please post you wireless log. I using 802.11 on DynDish for now almost five moths without any problem. Here are my logs, taken right after a disconnect this afternoon: AP: 15:07:05 wireless,debug 4C:5E:0C:**:**:**: on 5760 AP: no SSID ***** caps 0x0 rates 0xOFDM:6-54 BW:1x-2x SGI:1x-2x HT:0-7 VHTMC...

Bomber67

Please post you wireless log.

I using 802.11 on DynDish for now almost five moths without any problem.

Will do later on.

Uldis: Can you please comment on my other points?

Bomber67

Nv2 Nstreme 802 on client, still it refuses to connect to AP on 802!

Bomber67

Struggling with a backhaul link. 1) On rather high load I experience "Control Frame Timeout" using nv2 and thought I'd try old 802.11 for reference. However, the client won't connect, just reports uses regular 802.11, skip What does this mean? Just nv2 on the Dynadish??? :shock: 2) I'm als...

Bomber67

In order to ensure some gamer kid will get some sleep I have employed a couple of time based FW rules: /ip firewall filter add action=drop chain=forward comment="Drop 0000-0730 all days" in-interface=\ ether2 log=yes log-prefix="DROP 0000-0800 ALL DAYS" time=\ 0s-8h,sun,mon,tue,w...

Bomber67

I have this problem too. Tested with my two RB850 with different versions of ROS. MAC connection fails every time. I have also problems with handling small DNS (UDP) packets. In my opinion RB850 is crappy platform. I cannot fully agree with you in that...have had one in production since june 2015, ...

Bomber67

Yes, it would indeed be interesting with a chime-in from MT on this.
They know what the problem is, we would like to know.

Bomber67

Normis

Any chance of a version of RB SXT LTE for 3.5 and 3.6GHz spectrum? We could shift a lot of these....

Slightly OT, I'd say.

Bomber67

I wonder what happens to the newsletter notification e-mails. I have subscribed for years, and have received the vast of them I think, but suddenly they stop coming for one or more newsletters. Then, without re-subscribing, they start coming again. No trace of the missing e-mails (like the one for t...

Bomber67

Thank you doneware! Ok, I think I understand Having my ISP to do what you suggest will take weeks I guess, so I have to do it another way. Then plain routing simply won't work I guess? Let me try to understand If I assign the addresses of my controllers to ether1 there will be a dynamic route for .1...

Bomber67

Nobody?
I simply cannot get this to work.....

Thought all packets destined for A.B.C.128/27 at least would arrive at router1's ether1 interface, but no trace...

Bomber67

Guys, I have the following setup on one location: IMG2.jpg From ISP I am assigned a /27 network, namely A.B.C.128/27 Address to reach router 1 (main router), A.B.C.130/27 is setup on WAN interface ether1, default GW is set to A.B.C.129. No other static routes. Fiber to second router, on this fiber I...

Bomber67

Talked to the MT guys in Prague and I understood that the Dude programmer is no longer around and they are somewhat reluctant to dig into the code...
According to John they are still considering to make another version, so I don't think all hope is out.

Bomber67

Like I said, Mikrotik is pretty close to something, but for some unknown reason they just dropped it as an incomplete product years ago. Why not at least strip off the bugs in the existing version? I hereby invite Normis to give some quality information on this. The situation now is that we are all ...

Bomber67

Bomber67, No doubt there's an issue with the MAC telnet connection to the RB850Gx2. I've read some of the replies from other users here but this is specific to this model. No it's not normal, contrary to what the other people are saying. I've upgrade up to 6.25 and the problem is still clear. Once ...

Bomber67

Another issue I encounter with the 850 is that they appear to be difficult to run via PoE in from an RB260GSP. First time I tried none of them powered up. Then I forced PoE output of the 260GSP and board #1 powered up. After playing around for a while I suddenly made the 260GSP detect the board and ...

Bomber67

The MAC based connection would make initial connection then act as though it was disconnected and quit updating but never actually disconnects. How much time went by between when you made the connection and when you noticed it had stopped updating? Long enough for the initial window to populate. Th...

Bomber67

I never had a problem with MAC winbox connection with any routerboard either except for the 850Gx2. And I've had plenty of problems with MAC Winbox to other RouterBoards, but not to this 850Gx2 that I have sitting on my desk right this second. So what's your point? I have been MAC Winbox'd to it fo...

Bomber67

The only thing this is "normal" to is the RB850Gx2 and it definately should not be like that. This is not true, and if you have never encountered this before, then you are a lucky man indeed. In my experience, the MAC telnet/Winbox protocol can be unstable, and its stability seems to be l...

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