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Is it possible to run both a cAP and a non cAP AP on the same device? Any pitfalls I need to steer away from?

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That is for the new Version 7 AX Routers, the non AX routers do not have the password on the box. We are using almost all older non AX routers. I have tried disabling the Admin account and could not. I actually just tried both a ROS version 6 and 7 non AX device, and it will not let me disable the A...

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I have several hundred Mikrotik devices of various models I am managing, and I finally was able to take the time to setup usermanager. I was going to go thru at setup them all to use the usermanager, but I ran into one problem. How can I get rid of all the default admin accounts on these devices? As...

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the hAP AX2 is wave2, and yes up to this first device we have only used devices with ROS v6. That is kind of why I purchased this device, I want to see what we will be getting. We have nearly 200 mikrotik devices in our network, and this one is different. There is no CAPsMAN, the wireless section is...

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I just recently aquired a a hAP ax2 router. Had to buy it in Canada and get shipped to the US. But anyway I opened uo winbox and got into it, and it is different than ROS v7 installed on a hAP AC Router. I was wondering if there is any documentation for this sort of combination? Also I want to let y...

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I figured it out. I am going to put down the procedure here, just incase someone else needs it. Generate a Key-pair. I had to do this outside of Mikrotik, the ubiquiti radio does not like Mikrotik generated keypair. ssh-keygen -t rsa -m pem Then I just went to the users in winbox and then to ssh key...

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I am trying to use an ssh key instead of a password. Trying to figure out why it does not work with the ssh-exec command.

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I changed it to

/system ssh-exec 192.168.1.34 "reboot"

And now the AP just tells me that there is an authentication error. Even when going thru the terminal.

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I am trying to use a Mikrotik Router to reboot a Ubiquiti Radio. I know it has to be done using SSH, I have the public and private key installed where they need to be. Here is the command I am using /system ssh 192.168.1.34 "reboot" If I go thru the Terminal in the the router and it works....

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Will do.
Thanks again.

Hoov

The newer link we are using GPER's every 200 ft. And in the older link, built before me, they used switches to boost the signal along. Not pretty, but it works. Everything uses static IP's.

Thanks for the thoughts, I had not thought of #2.

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I have a bit of an odd question. We have a RB1100AHx4 in our office that does all the heavy lifting for our network. At our tower which is about 800Ft away, we have a CSS326-24G-2S+ feeding various radios for links and access points. We go from one to the other using Cat6. Actually we have two cat6 ...

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Yesterday I updated our RB1100AHx4 to ROS V7.1.3 and except for 1 thing it worked Great. One of our customers is a Office supply Buisness, and one of the things they use is EAutomate. It is a cloud based CRM program. All day long it kept disconnecting and reconnecting. The computers they were runnin...

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Has anyone ever setup a pair of LAG XL 52 AC's to run both the 5 and 2 GHz radios at the same time to increase the overall thruput? I have not done any load balancing at all and I was looking for some pointers, or maybe a export of a setup that is working so I can look at it. Any help would be appre...

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I have a customer who wants a more powerful router, so I thought of using an Audience. Unfortunately I can only get 20 mbs wirelessly. Wired and I can get the full input out. Somewhere between 250 and 300 mbs. KI did try resetting it to nothing and just configuring a basic wireless AP and can still ...

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I used True Cable Cat6 shielded buriable outdoor cable. Once I made the change that Łukasz recommended, all was well in the world (or at least at that one customers house).

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My problem may have been related to the long line POE in. Because sitting in my living room and using 10ft cables it all worked. I am going to be doing a few more of these remote Power supplies, I am sure I will find out with one of them. If I do I will post it.

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Thank you Łukasz! That did the trick! Do you know if there is a list of the command line only options?

Hoov

Well it turned out to be even stranger than I knew. Here is the setup. 100 ft of Cat6 from the power supply to the Powerbox. Connected to the powerbox is an LHG 2 XL and an SXTG-2HnD. Attached to the POE injector 100 ft away from the powerbox is a google nest router. As far as I can tell, this setup...

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I am trying to configure a Powerbox RB750Pr2 using the POE in port to power it, and also to carry internet into a house. I was also trying to use a Ubiquiti M2-400 as a station, and a Mikrotik SXTG-2HnD as an AP. If I connect the M2 it works fine, but as soon as I connect the SXT, I loose the connec...

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Not sure why this is doing what it is doing, but if I reset it with NO configuration, and then configure it from there, they work. And this did not affect just the LHG, but it also affected other Routerboard based devices.

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Well on the advice of Mikrotik I removed the jumpers from both sides of the GPeR and that worked. Also according to them, I have a wiring issue somewhere. Everything checks fine, but until spring, I can't go any further. Everything is working as it should.

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I did pull out the correct jumpers. As for the failing the autosense, even if it did, would it cause everything to power off. There is one thing I am thinking, the switch does have a POE in, so how does it determine if there is power coming in, or rather potentially coming in. The GPeR jumpers break...

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We have run a new line to our main tower using GPeR's and it works good except for one thing. When I plug it into the CSS326-24G-2S+RM that we are using for a switch there, the power light goes off, as do all the port lights. I plugged my laptop into the end and was able to surf the web nicely. I di...

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DHCP Server on one router the Capsman and DHCP Client on the Caps should work. 1 quick thing if you are trying to use wireless radio on Capsman Server you need to allow 127.0.0.1

That I did not know. Io will try that. Thanks!

Hoov

Yes it is a managed switch, a CSS106-1G-4P-1S, although I am using it mostly because of the POE ability, and I needed a switch, and I had one. I will get you the configuration files as soon as I can. My days are filled to overflowing right now. It may take me a couple days, I have to recreate it bec...

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I am trying to connect a hAP Lt and a mAP lt together for a customer. The mAP lt is for a single room that is not covered by the main router. I have tried setting up Capsman and a CAP and I can get it working EXCEPT the DHCP will not work on the mAP lt. This customer would like to be able to go from...

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Thanks for the tips! Not sure if that is what I did, I have done too much since then, but I will look into it the next time this happens.

Hoov

Sorry for taking so long to reply, been crazy busy. The installation was fine, I did try thru winbox thru the IP Address and thru the MAC address, although sometimes I could not even see those. I tried three different computers and a phone. I did make some progress. Doing a manual reset allowed me t...

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I normally do that, and it still had problems. I have since run into this exact same issue on an SXTG-2hnd. Yet I know it is not the way I am doing it, because I have configured other SXT's and mAP Lites, hAP lite's and other Mikrotik products without issue. Both before and after this issue. I do my...

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We are using several LHG's in our network, and so far they have been working well. Today I was configuring one of them and ran into an issue. Once I do a basic configuration to it, I can no longer contact it in any way. All I can do is to reset to back to the stoneage and try again. I did take a bac...

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We have a situation where we are using an SXT for an AP for multiple locations. In our network we are using Static IP Addressing. But this particular AP is close enough to a home that it is causing problems with their home router. I am trying to figure out if I can setup a virtual AP on this device ...

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If I remember correctly, there was a vulnerability in ROS. There were two ways of dealing with it. Update it, or close port 8291. I may be wrong about that though. But I do remember the port being vulnerable, and there was an update. But this is something new. At least as far as a I can find out.

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I have a couple customers who are stuck using cellular networks for their internet access. But they would like to use a router for printers and just generally having a more powerful wifi signal. I thought of using a Mikrotik. I have a hAP ac lite sitting around and decided to try it. Only one proble...

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For now, it really doesn't matter. Our network is not accessible from the outside. Not that I have not tried, but we had a bit of a scare a year and a half ago, and I locked it down. I just wanted to being this up, just in case there was a vulnerability. Our network is finally running fairly smooth,...

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https://fossbytes.com/notorious-lazarus-group-unleashes-first-linux-malware/ This was an article that was forwarded to me by a friend who knows I use Mikrotik devices. I do try to keep everything updated to one of the last two releases. From what I understand of this, it is using a plugin that has a...

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I have the same device, and RB750GR3 running the Dude. Mine is actually using 14.1mb of 16.3mb used. To update it I open system -> packages and click the check for update button and update it that way. I just did it and there is more than enough room to do it. 1 thing I do, is I use the download but...

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Enable RSTP on all your devices.. ! I had read about the Admin MAC briefly, it sounds like I can just create a MAC Address? Is that correct? You can do a simple trick, go to interfaces eoip, click the +, copy the mac address that was generated and close the window Without saving anything . Take tha...

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Hello, you have different RouterOS versions. Long term is this where there are very few bugs and works well. You have the stable version with newer implementations but which can still contain bugs. And you have the beta versions that still have to be tested. The last one (beta version) is not recom...

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Zacharias, yes it is the root bridge. As for RSTP, when I was setting up the network, I misunderstood what RSTP did and turned it off. I had continued my research after posting here, and ran across some information that was leading me to the point where I had decided that STP or RSTP was going to ha...

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We have a RB750 Gr3 that is the first device in our network. We are getting quite a few entries in the log stating "Bridge port received packet with own address as source address probably loop". The very first thing I did was check MAC address's on all our devices, because I had imported s...

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Do you know the difference between memory and hdd space? Yes I do, but Mikrotik seems to blur the line when using memory as drive space. For instance, if it were really just memory, when I rebooted, it would erase itself fully. But it does not. Only parts of it erases itself, like any data from the...

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Now I am really confused. I am using Zabbix to monitor a network. This RB750 is the first device past the fiber modem. It stands between the network and the internet. It self reports that it has 13% of the memory is free. But then I have zabbix telling me two different things. First that the memory ...

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I have an RB750gr3 that is running The Dude. The Dude is using a MicroSD card for storage, and I have tons of space on it. But the memory in the RB750 only has something like 14% free space, and it is slowly filling up. I am assuming that it is the data from the Queue that is causing the issue. Is t...

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So in modern homes on a single phase with circuit breakers, then they would work poorly? Especially if arc fault or ground fault breakers are used?

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I had a Powerline and Powerline AP here getting them setup, and I finally got them working, except I ran into a glitch I was hoping someone would know about. I live in a small house, so it was hard to test them out here. So I took the AP out to my barn to see if I could get a connection. It would no...

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So how do i enable dude package in my routeros? What Dude2048 is telling you is that The Dude can only be installed on the hardware of the following types, TILE devices; ARM devices; MMIPS devices; RouterOS x86 installations; RouterOS CHR environment Your Router is on the type MIPSBE. The hardware ...

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We are using several Mikrotik devices. Some of them are SXT's (both the SXT G-2HnD r2 and the SXT G-5HPnD r2) we have one at each at the same location. The 2.4 gHz we are using as a local AP, and the 5.8 gHz is being used as a link radio to another local tower further down the line. This evening, it...

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This is random. I h ave set the watchdog to reboot if it looses communication with one of the CPE's. Sometimes it is good for 12 hrs, others abut 1 hr.

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It does not look like you have placed the MIB files in that folder. Where did you put them?

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With me it was the Ubiquiti MIB's This is how I did it.

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I tried using the instructions for the Dude, probably the same ones you did, and it did not work. Then I used the ones that slech just pointed you to, and it works just as it is supposed to. The one thing I did that made it easier was I used Filezilla to create the folder and upload the files. If yo...

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It is actually fairly quiet. A few hughes net routers, a cannon printer, and the occasional samsung phone, but the noise level is around -105db. The real kicker is, that about 2 hours after posting this, it stopped doing it. Now I am really confused.

Hoov

SSID Password, Right now we are just using the ACL.

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I have a metal 2 acting as an Access Point, with several different kinds of radios as CPE's. The last couple of days, the metal has stopped responding on the WAN side. But if you check in the CPE and in the Metal, the connection is still there, just no traffic. If you reboot the Metal, the connectio...

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Yes it is open, at least for now. Once we get it all working as it is supposed to, a password will be added.

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Watchdog pulls the power of a device, and will never do a clean shutdown! This is what I wanted to know. The reason I am not using a normal reboot is because I need this to reboot when communication is lost. The other end occasionally does not get any traffic thru this radio (still trying to figure...

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Thanks shiyiqiang08

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I was hoping there was a way to make it be ignored all together. We are stopping the connection, but it just keeps trying. I think Canon must have bought energizer at some time.

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I know what it is supposed to do, and I want it to do that. What I am trying to understand is HOW watchdog reboots the system. Does it go thru a real reboot, or does it just power down the device. If it is supposed to be rebooting normally, then I have a problem. If it just shuts down power briefly ...

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Is anyone using these as sector antenna's? How close do you have them mounted to each other? Are they working out OK?

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Is there anyway to block a device that keeps trying to connect to an AP on its own? I have tried the ACL and writing a firewall rule, and while it never makes a connection, it still tries to connect for about 20 seconds every 30 seconds or so. It is a Canon printer, and does not belong to anyone on ...

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I am doing it based on Pings not unresponsiveness. So it should shutdown normally and reboot normally. Or does watchdog just power it down?

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I have two access points that have about 90% of their outages that are either 3:00 or 3:30 . Not about those times but exactly those times. To me that looks like something different than a normal outage. But I cannot find anything in the settings that are set for that sort of time, and nothing is lo...

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You have to upload the upgrade file to the Dude's file structure, into the Dude Data Files. Then you can click on one device or several and select upgrade and then the package you want to upgrade to. My problem is the upgrade of several of my devices do not work. It reboots but does not install.

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If there is a way, I have not found it. Good luck. I just delete a device from one map and recreate it on another.

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How many devices had you entered before these devices started showing up, the non existent devices? Did you reset The Dude DB before redoing it the last time? If not, that might be your issues. Just deleting devices in the Dude does not remove the network discovery from the server. You have to go in...

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I have a system that is being rebooted by the watchdog timer, I know the reason for the reboot, and I have to love with it. But my question is about why is the watchdog timer not doing the reboot properly? Every time it reboots I get an error telling me it rebooted without proper shutdown. Does watc...

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That is what I thought, but there are two Administrators, I am one. And there is nothing in the log or in History about it being changed. No scripts, either.

Hoov

Sorry for missing your response. It is disabled. In some cases it was the newest version of RouterOS, but it also was on some that was the version it shipped with, 6.42.7.

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Thanks, that was the issue.

Hoov

No firewall rules, but I just found out I can also get into it directly using webfig. When I click on the winbox icon on the login page, I get an error. Normally this starts a download of Winbox. I know its a configuration issue somewhere, but I have to be looking right over it. Thanks for the respo...

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I am having a similar issue. Can you connect to that device via winbox? The one device I am having a problem with, I cannot connect to except thru RoMON going thru a device after it.

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I have an RB912 UAG that I cannot login to directly using Winbox but if I log into a Mikrotik device on either side of it thru RoMON, then I can get into it using Winbox thru RoMON. Can anyone tell me why I can't just go thru Winbox to begin with?

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Is there a way to judge how effective a firewall rule is? For instance if I have a drop rule that everything gets checked by, but it never drops anything, then I can get rid of it and improve the throughput of the router. I know how to see how much traffic is going thru a rule, but how do I see if i...

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There is a way. Open The Dude client, on the left click on Devices, then click on the RouterOS tab and select all of them and then right click on the highlighted box and click on Settings (NOT device settings, just Settings), then you can change the username and password there, and click apply, then...

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I believe the x86 iso is a linux distro that will run on a windows machine, but do not quote me on that. I have not tried it, as I do not have an extra machine to try it on right now.

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The SXT will not run the dude, and neither will the 951. Both those units use the MIPSBE version of router OS. If you want to use The Dude, you need to pick a device that will run it. If you look on the download page, https://mikrotik.com/download you can see which devices will support the Dude (It ...

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This one has me stumped. I have an RB912UAG that I cannot connect to directly using Winbox, but I can use WebFig to get into it. Also if I log into a neighboring device using RoMON then I can get into it using Winbox. We have reset it and are basically starting from scratch. Here is an export, does ...

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Oh, and thanks for trying to explain it. I could not come up with anything that did not really sound out there.

Hoov

But when that interface goes back up, then so shouldn't the DHCP?

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We have six mAP lite's and now 1 SXT 2 that for some reason the DHCP has gotten turned off. One of the mAP lites happened during a power outage, so I am not so worried about that, except we have had 6 other devices that it has happened to. Nothing shows up in the log other than an unscheduled reboot...

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I am having the same issue, some with newer versions of ROS, wome with older. But all do the same thing, reboot and nothing updates. I have even tried Netinstall on some of them, and it does not even see the device.

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We have less than 100 customers and we are using an RB750Gr3 with the Dude running on it, and so far nothing like what you are describing.

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Thanks for sharing that information,

Hoov

Have you made any progress with this? I have the same issue.

Hoov

I want to be able to test between two routers on my wireless network. I have followed the video that is on youtube, and read some of the threads on the forum here and I still do not get any received packets. Is there a better set of instructions around? Is there anyone around that uses it for basic ...

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Thanks joegoldman, That is what I was looking for.
AlainCasault, I just want to edit the layout not the GUI. There are things I want to see on certain pages, not what is there by default. But I wanted to be able to do it in a mass edit sort of way.

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Is there a way to edit the winbox layout so you can view each device with the same layout. I looked around and it appears at one point there was an edit function for that, but I the copy of Winbox I have there is no edit. Thanks for any help.

Hoov

Did one better. Took device out of the system and put a new one in with the updated rules. We had set the admin account to read only, but I realize now that was probably a bad idea. It has been changed but is still only a read only account.

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What is the best place to learn fast about this? I ask because I was hacked last night. I was able to stop it fairly quickly and no damage was done.But I need to harden my router faster than I had originally thought, so I need to learn quickly. And good references are appreciated, online or printed ...

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Why is it when you have a stroke of genius in the middle of the night when you were not even thinking about the problem, you overlook the one fact that stops you from making it work until you blurt it out to everyone. Thank you for not calling me an idiot for overlooking the fact that the MAC addres...

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What I would like to do is to block access to port 8291 from inside and outside the network except for specific MAC address. I have been able to Block and allow specific MAC address's from the inside to the outside across the entire range of ports by using these, (and by removing the NOT mark in the...

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Thanks for your attempt to help me. I found my problem. I keep trying to make a major change to a Mikrotik Device and fail miserably. I just reset the configuration and did it from scratch and it worked perfectly.

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I get my internet via a Wireless ISP thru a Groove 52 AC. I am working with the guys in the ISP to keep the network tuned up. They had not expected to use any Mikrotik devices so I am learning this all on the fly. I want to use The Dude to monitor the network. I am using a RB750Gr3 to run The Dude s...

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Thanks for the info.
For everyone, I have a question that is half rhetorical half serious. Does it ever end? Having to learn new software to make things work as they are suppose to?

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I am a customer of an ISP, but I am also helping them with their network. My connection goes thru a Mikrotik router. Is it possible to connect to the ISP's network to monitor it thru SNMP? I have enabled it on the few of the devices, but so far the only one I can connect to thru SNMP is my own route...

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From with in the ISP. From private customer networks inside the private ISP network. Nothing over the the public internet. Thru Mikrotik Routers. I want to go from the private side of the customers network thru the router to the ISP side just by changing the IP address of the laptop to a static one ...

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Not even sure if this is possible, but I want to be able to connect to a customers private network (they are using an RB952) into the private IP scheme the ISP uses just by changing the IP address in my computer. Is that possible? If so how? Thanks for any guidance.

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I will admit I am new to Mikrotik and RouterOS but you are using a lot of Mikrotik devices with built in firewalls. Use those instead of adding in a separate firewall device. How big an area do these buildings cover? What are the buildings made of? It might be possible to do the entire things with o...

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Any other idea's? We are at a loss.

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Yes you can do that. It is just a matter of cabling. A standard Mikrotik POE puts power out on the female end (or socket) so you could use a jumper to put power into the router instead of a radio. And the data lines of the Ethernet connection would still act normally. So you would be passing power i...

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Thanks for the suggestion 2frogs, but that did not work.

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I only heard of RouterOS and Mikrotik a bit over a month ago when I started working with my startup ISP. They had started using Ubiquiti products and they know that firmware. So we are starting wayyy behind the eight ball. I am still figuring all this out, so any pointers you can give me would be ap...

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One other thing that makes this crazy, there are other access points in the network that I can get into. One at 10.100.0.6 and one at 10.100.0.8 and I can login to both of them with no problem. So to me that makes me think there is nothing wrong with the network configuration or routes. There is a s...

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Did you just have to change it in the two radio's? Do you know why this worked? It appears you made the range smaller. I really do not have that choice.

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Any idea's would be appreciated.

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I have not done it with a Mikrotik setup yet, but I did just do it using Ubiquiti radios. The router has to be setup to do all the DHCP. as for the metal 2, you need to set it up as an Access Point. Make sure you are using the 802.11 BGN on 20 MHz. Password for the connection is important, or anyone...

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I did do a bit of editing, I removed the serial number of the radio, the last half of the MAC address's that are shown, and the SSID. The rest is as is. This is the Access Points file. # jun/16/2018 19:57:15 by RouterOS 6.42.2 # software id = H9BB-RW43 # # model = Metal 2SHPn # serial number = xxxxx...

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At home I am connected to the access point thru a RB952Ui-5ac2nD-US then thru a Groove-52HPn. I have full internet access. Everything works. But I cannot use winbox or even a browser to login to the access point. It will not even respond to a ping from the CLI in either device. Yet I can go over to ...

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Thank you sir. I had done what I thought was the same thing, but it was probably the last two steps that hosed me. But there is one step you did forget. Address list, change the adress for the bridge to port 5. This lets me get rid of some of the extra power cord I had to run because I had run out o...

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I recently purchased a hAP AC lite that I am using for my in house AP. I also currently have a SXTG 2HnD that I am going to be replacing with a LHG-2nD-XLI. I do not expect having any problems configuring the new bridge, my problem is instead with the hAP. Port 5 has the capability of being a POE ou...

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I have had some more experience with this. It seems like ANY Ubiquiti router (as in the part sitting on the table that you connect to wirelessly) refuses to work with Mikrotik CPE's. But the reverse is not true. Mikrotik Routers and switches work nicely with Ubiquiti radio's. Why this is still baffl...

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I have a SXT G-2HnD (as a CPE) all set up and it is working great. But I am trying to connect a wireless router to it for use in a residence. I can configure and connect a Netgear router up to it and it works fine. But I also have a Ubiquity AirRouter and AirGateway, and those are the ones giving me...

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