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there is a regex inside to know if strings need to be escaped in YAML that might be useful if your were going to add YAML to your script. ... So you can also check the array "subtype" in two-value foreach like: Thanks - those both look good! I actually mainly use my $YAML function to &quo...

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if ->0 is undefined ("nothing"), but the lenght is > 0, the array have only key pairs, if last ->n is defined (can also be "nil"), and is the same length (- 1) of the array, the array have only numeric values. Thanks for all the example code to test the array types, I will give ...

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You can iterate array and check its elements type to determine this or just use 1st element as reference, but how you will handle mix? Yeah that script already walks the array elements to convert RouterOS data types to JSON data types. If its a mix or a key/value then it will map to a JSON object o...

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FWIW, while no "pretty print"... v7.13 has JSON support as built-in function Yip I'm aware thanks, and I expect I will swap to that eventually as I've no interest in reinventing the wheel - I've been using that script [well an older version] for the last few years on 6.x and early 7.x thu...

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I'm hoping someone will tell me I'm missing something obvious. I'm trying to find a way for a RouterOS script to test if an array is a simple list of values, an associative array (key,value pairs), or a multi-dimensional array (a list of array's within a array). [Descriptions in brackets in case I'm...

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Other ideas... if...else if...else It would be great to have the option to use elif (else if) within a if statement rather than nesting new if statements within a else. :if ($something = "abc") do={ :put "Thing 1"; } elif ($something = "def") do={ :put "Thing 2&quo...

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Filesystem Some basic file and directory handling like mkdir, I work around that using /tool fetch but would prefer not to have too. There is now "/file/add name=" in the latest V7's. Directories kinda fake in RouterOS as they are constructed from the "/" in the name= .... so st...

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@mike548141 When you have commands that could not work on every device then you can avoid errors by using do {} on-error={} :do { /system/hardware } on-error={ :error "error: script not executable on this device " } :do { /system/hardware } on-error={ :log "error: script X not execut...

mike548141

Some ideas Syntax checking A big one for me would not be a new function, but making scripting easier across everyting using the Mikrotik platform. RouterOS on a CHR virtual device does not have /system/routerboard/ in the CLI so a script will give a syntax error when it trys to load the script into ...

mike548141

I think it would be really useful if find had an equivalent control to prints count-only e.g.

/interface/bridge/find count-only where

If you know of an equivalent command, or maybe have created a short script to do the same I would love to see it.

Thanks,

MC

mike548141

Thank you for operating this service, its really helpful. I only tested IPv4, my address 167.179.216.63 in Wellington, New Zealand. I'm on a UFB (fibre network in NZ) using Nova Energy as the ISP, on a 950 Mbps down / 450 Mbps up plan. Testing from my IGW which is a RB4011iGS+RM running ROS 7.1.1. I...

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Even the cheapest access points given as freebies with ISP contracts now support it. MikroTik is the last in the WiFi world to add these. When we are unlucky, they will put the support for this only in their wave2 driver which will run (almost) only on new devices. (due to the silly 16M flash used ...

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Another bump for 802.11r/k/v for client roaming

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Hi I'm not sure if these are expected, pecular to my setup, or bugs in v7 so I thought I would check here first. I'm seeing this on a range of RB models running v7.1. 1. NTP client NTP client is working as expected (command below) but the list of servers in WebFig are blank (see screen shots). /syst...

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Ok I started trying older versions of RouterOS and NetInstall to see if that got the LR9 operational. First I tried 6.48.6 long term, NetInstall said that it successfully formatted the drive in the LR9 and installed the RouterOS package. At the end it says it completed the successfully, but the LR9 ...

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Found the fix - see this post viewtopic.php?p=903280

mike548141

I know this is 7 years later - but thought I would post the idea in case some one is Googling for a similar idea. My recommendation would be to use OTP to create a unique password, and then store that password in a file in the devices local storage. Not great security but neither is using the same p...

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Some extra details RE NetInstall - NetInstall is v7.1.1 running on Windows 10 x64 English v1709 with VirtualBox Guest Additions v6.1.30. VirtualBox 6.1.30 is running on macOS 12.1 on a MacBook Pro (MBP). The VM has 2 virtual network interfaces, the first mapped to a ThunderBolt ethernet adapter that...

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Hi everyone, I think my wAP is faulty, looking for help on how to diagnose and repair it. Otherwise I will need to return it. I brought a Mikrotik wAP LR9 to test out creating a LoRaWAN network but I can't get it to show up as a new device on the network i.e. as a IP neighbour on the CRS328 switch. ...

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You need secondary radio. In ROS it's not possible to run sniffer and AP at the same time... and then you would still be limited to just single channel. But if you only need to get nearby APs, you can use wifi scanner with "background scan" option, that works even when AP is running and s...

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You could be right - but then it must be able to listen to multiple channels to be able to listen for beacons & probes when the radio is in a monitor state. I don't know either way - was hoping someone here could give a definitve answer with some detail. The alternative is of course a separate p...

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Sniffing WiFi Beacon's , Probe Requests, and Probe Responses has been discussed in various previous posts and is possible on the Mikrotik WAP's. But /interface wireless sniffer sniff requires exclusive access to the radio e.g. it won't work when CAP is enabled. Could RouterOS be enhanced so that you...

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~ tries to do a regex match on the value as a string. Thanks for replying @sin3vil and @rextended. For some reason I had it in my head that ~ was a partial match (aka contains vs = or !=) but I went back to the docs after posting my question here and saw it was actually regex as you say. But ran ou...

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I'm running 2 CRS328 switches, one of which is providing a few services that I would love to make more resilient Does anyone have pointers that would allow these services to run on both services in a active/active or active/passive configuration for high availability should one service or switch fai...

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How are people scripting the use of the where statement to find a value in an array? (see example below) In this example I am trying to see if a bridge VLAN contains an interface name in its array of untagged interfaces. The issue I have is terminating the value in the example below i.e. untagged~($...

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What is an LR9?

@sup5 Its a Mikrotik wireless access point for LoRAWAN https://mikrotik.com/product/wap_lr9_kit

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I should have said - I have factory reset it a few times as well to no affect (using the reset button at boot). I've not tried a netinstall yet

MC

mike548141

Hi, Anyone experienced with the LR9 's? I brought one to play with, straight out of the box and plugged into a CRS328 and it is powering up via PoE, the LED's show ethernet activity, but it does not show up in the CRS328 IP neighbours. And its not accessible on the default IP. Does it not boot up wi...

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Thanks for the advice, I think I will go with the RB4011

MC

mike548141

Hi I am looking for your recommendations on a model of Mikrotik ethernet router to use as an Internet gateway at home. I am currently using a hEX PoE but I'm only getting about 400 Mbps through it using https://www.speedtest.net/ , that could be a config issue on my part so let me know if you would ...

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This is quite old but I had the same situation and finally found out what was wrong (in my case). My Cap was also set to certificate=request and after a while I found out that this was causing the issue. Looking at the detailed Caps Log on the CAPsMan it showed that the CAPsMan could not generate a...

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Hi First sorry if this is a duplicate post, I had a search but I wasn't sure what keywords people would use. If it is a duplicate please let me know and I can delete. I would love the WiFi access points (cAP ac, wAP ac etc) to have a bluetooth radio built in for a few reasons 1. Sniffing for bluetoo...

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error because is missing the $ at the start of variable First of all @rextended thank you for the detailed explanation(s) in your post. It helped me progress debugging this. I tested your example code and the $variablename certainly does remove the syntax error from the :set command, but the set co...

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Copy your code in system scripts and run print in the terminal, it will highlight all the syntax errors you have. @mrz thanks that certainly helped to narrow it down. I've reduced it down to the following few lines and I still have a syntax error. I assume that I am either using a reserved name or ...

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Copy your code in system scripts and run print in the terminal, it will highlight all the syntax errors you have.

Will do that thanks, better debug than the import verbose etc...

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(⊙_⊙) what great idea!!! On 15 years I never think that!!! Thanks... @rextended there seems to be a lot of attitude and passive aggression in your replies - I don't know what that is about, but unfortunately its not uncommon in some forums. Anyway if my replies annoyed you then that was not my inte...

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Post the complete script, not just the pieces. All variables are not initialized, anything could have been done before. On what device and on what version of routeros? I will need to redact some parts of it as it contains secrets etc... and I would prefer to not have my entire internal network conf...

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PS I use SFTP to transfer the script file onto the Mikrotik in case that is relevant. Is its possible I'm hitting some limit e.g. size of the script, number of lines in the script, line length in the script etc... I've also just tried deleting line 281 and a couple of lines either side of it and I s...

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Did you open file with text editor? What exactly is on line 281 column 10? If I run the /import with verbose this is the output it gives me. I've excluded the rest to focus just on the section its referencing. Line 281 where it reports a syntax error is "# Model specific config". [admin@M...

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I've tried using Notepad++ to re-encode the script file to ANSI, UTF-8, and UTF-8-BOM in addition to the us-ascii that I was already using. No luck, they all give the same syntax error except for UTF-8-BOM which gave the error expected command name (line 1 column 1) which I assume to mean it couldn'...

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I'm stumped. I have a script that I am using to configure a range of RouterOS devices from their default config out of the box and the script works perfectly if I paste it in via serial console or SSH. However if I try to use the same script as part of a system reset it fails with a syntax error. I ...

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The :log command should accept a variable for the log event severity e.g.

:log $severity message=$message;

mike548141

Posting this code here just in case its useful for someone. Its shorter than the code above and returns a timestamp as an array. # This function returns the current date (YYYYMMDD) and time (HHMMSS) as an array :global timestamp do={ :local tsdate [ /system clock get date; ]; :local tstime [ /system...

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If an ethernet interface has been made a slave of a bonded interface (e.g. LACP) then it should have a value assigned on the physical interface that tells you (a) it is bonded and (b) the name of the bonded interface. This way when querying interfaces from a script we can see whats bonded by looking...

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Thanks for the feedback/answers @eworm & @rextended, I'm not surprised its not possible to make the count-only silent but I was hoping that someone had a way. Maybe its just me, but to me the print count-only is cleaner code to read, and requires fewer CPU cycles & memory than a :len to exec...

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Hi I use "print count-only where" in scripts quite a bit (example below) as its cleaner than using :len. The down side is I get unwanted integers printed to the console which are the counts. Is there a way that I can use a count only without printing the result to console? The only way I c...

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With the default NTP client I can use DNS FQDN's to specify the NTP sources, but if I install the NTP server package I can only specify IP addresses as the NTP sources. Not ideal since the IP addresses change over time and are out of my control (and the same for most people using an Internet NTP sou...

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This functionality have been requested for years. Having to use above methods for something so trivial and basic is just sad.

I have to agree r00t, it really should not need these types of hacks for basic file system management

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Following is a RouterOS trick that I use to make a directory via CLI [Terminal]

Nice one thanks mozerd I like that better than my FTP method

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I was surprised that I could not create directorys on the local storage natively. I hate that it relies on FTP but it works. Sharing for others. # To reduce the security risk limit FTP to only connections from the device itself set ftp disabled=no address=127.0.0.1/32; # Create a user and group to g...

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To me the singularly most important addition would be opening this up to the community so that they could create and share functions safely and easily. So that you can leverage all the developers to contribute to a user extensible library.

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