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That shows the legacy "wireless" security profile window indeed.

infabo

So "wifi" (ac).

infabo

Despite advertising: Apple also has bugs. lol

infabo

Is this a wireless or wifi story?

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I am with you. It is up to Mikrotik to give feedback to Apple or Qualcomm or fix it themselves. None of our business.

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easy

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... n+RouterOS

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As already written: ROS logs are not helpful. You all need to capture your client logs.

Look for the section “Wi-Fi for iOS/iPadOS” in iOS Profiles and Logs

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As long as it’s nothing more than that: yes.

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Nothing. But gigabyte says, MT should focus on stabilizing and improving Winbox 4 first. I think that developing several new project's at same time could take too many developer resources at such a small company like MT. Winbox 4 is beta and is going to need a big amount of attention by MT to reach ...

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wifi interworking. Holy batman, that is not even documented.

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Yeah, then give ISP a hardened bootloader mode which prevents reset. AFAIK this is already possible if I am not wrong by a feature called "protected routerboot". But on the other hand: I am not aware of other vendors having such a "reset users and but keep config" feature. But I ...

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1) yes. All configuration for as many devices I like to manage. Across network boundaries. 2) Docker or Linux Container. So one has the freedom to run it anywhere. Powerful ROS device using container package, Raspberry Pi or whatever. But "cloud solution by mikrotik" could useful for regul...

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PS: Don't forget the "default reject" rule for this secondary SSID. Allow by specific time and final rule is a reject.

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I still not understand why ROS does not give any possibility to re-gain access and/or reset users to default (either admin=nopassword or admin=passworddsticker) by performing some actions than can only be performed if one has physical access to device.

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I don't think so. Support in kernel is IMHO mostly relevant for consumer PCs. Embedded devices and even Android smartphones often use very "old" Kernel versions with many patches applied. And SOC vendors like Qualcomm provide their own driver SDK as well.

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You were thrown out of your own router. My condolences.

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Yes, I second that. reselect-interval kind of helps when you have neighbor SSIDs not in your control which switch channels or something. So it is more a thing for the unexpected. Better plan your channels manually and dont rely on "auto". One case Mikrotik did not think of for a CAPsMAN se...

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Access list have time filter. no need for scheduler Scripting

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mkx, you new here? I am not aware of any ROS changelog listing a single known issue. That did not and is not going to happen. Known issues are buried in community (!!) forum release topic in an unstructured manner. That is the reality.

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IMHO this is impossible with single SSID. but you can use one SSID protected and one open SSID and use access list rules for the open SSID.

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I dislike that ROS makes a mystery out of missing permissions. It just says in the logs something like " permissions missing" and that's basically it. Why can't ROS log the exact command which permission is missing? Only Mikrotik knows.

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At least I see no advantage of releasing another major stable release with unresolved Intel AX issues.

infabo

Don't push Mikrotik too hard. Last time I remember people were nagging for RC become stable release was 7.14 IIRC. And we all know this was no good idea. 16MB devices running out of space everywhere and lots of other issues. So better be patient. Mikrotik, take your time to test and fix.

infabo

Sounds interesting.

infabo

But while you're digging through all your tools until you find your shovel, hammer - or even maybe never find the shovel. 😂

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Would make sense. Especially for the European market. Labour is very expensive. An European company can make a simple equation: "pay some more $$$ for hardware but get all the bells and whistles or save some bucks on hardware but spend $$$$$ IT admins for hours of hours for troubleshooting caps...

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Poor souls is the right wording. It is quite sure that Mikrotik is working on some Mediathek based devices. We don't know what kind these devices will be. I would guess wifi7 APs. But who knows. I don't even know why is so top secret. there are only 2 options: wifi7 devices come or not come. a) &quo...

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These look like 10cm thick. I would expect to have at least a weak signal -80 or worse. My AP penetrates at 2 times a 25cm brick wall and some 10cm brick walls in between and I still have a very weak signal. But no signal is super strange.

infabo

Can you estimate the wall thickness? Solid brick or with air chambers?

infabo

Walls made of? Bricks? Concrete? Metal? Drywall?

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100% agree. VLANs with wifi-qcom-ac and capsman makes capsman look like a complete useless dumb manager. Who needs a manager which is not capable of managing its caps? Idiotic. And then for all of a sudden, learning the hard way, you have to use "create enabled" instead of "create dyn...

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The documentation (https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/DNS) does not even list the vrf parameter, so who knows!

This help page knows:

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/pages/vi ... edfeatures

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In fact that's probably the main problem with whole WinBox 4. Everything in it is HUGE. Sure, there's zoom, so I can make it smaller, but it doesn't really help. Look at it: winbox4-firewall-rule.png I'm currently trying to go with 84%, which already has smaller font than WinBox 3 and I'm still see...

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"PoE in Passive PoE"
https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ax2#:~ ... in%20input

That's why.

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My feedback, that too many tabs look awful on narrow windows still remains. No tab-title should be "truncated". There are many possibilitys to avoid this: and one way is how 3.x solved it.

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My Winbox application window isnt small. But the child windows inside are. Because I arranged all relevant "wifi" windows in a saved workspace so I can have all wifi related information at a glance. Switch to different workspace for other more overall stuff. Following to suggestion from us...

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"Show all".......................Yeah. Very self-explaining. PER WINDOW as well. As if it weren't already tedious enough to arrange the windows. Now you have to click into each window and deactivate the tabs. UX complaints incoming.

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This is no hide and seek game. I looked at the only known place for options I know of. And there isnt any.

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Jeeez, please give us an option to hide tabs again. Or at least style them properly as it was in Winbox 3.x. Following to suggestion from user "boingolover", I organized my screens to workspaces now. These tabs look awful on narrow windows.

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While "read only" is correct, because it is installed globally and Winbox is run with unprivileged user. Still one remark: it is a Linux host and I do not have an "Applications" folder. ;)

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polish behavior with new Winbox 4, but - who knows...

Would not make sense to me. Winbox 4 is early beta and that should not be any priority for any stable ROS version right now.

infabo

It is called WinBox and not TabBox.

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Interestingly, the same request is pending at the competitor for at least 3 years... Start wondering if it may be technically difficult or impossible to get that information on the AP side... made me curious. stumbled upon a user called "pe1chl" over at un*f* community forum feature reque...

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I already requested that feature via SUP-158802.

Great!
Have they already answered to your request?

Yes, they thanked me for making suggestions.

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I already requested that feature via SUP-158802. Details11/Jul/24 11:09 AM Description Hello, I have a feature request: It would be nice to have a column in wifi/registration-table which shows the active security-type of the registered client. e.g. wpa2-psk,wpa3-psk,etc. Maybe even more “granular” a...

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If you can reach the reset button when attached to wall then: no.

infabo

c'mon, cAP ac changed apartments recently

infabo

You could also tweak Wine fonts and looks. And Wine development is quite active in recent years and they made a lot of improvement.

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WiFi CAPsMAN is the correct term. Included in ROS base package 7.13+

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Grouping in Winbox 3.x: right-click in any list-view -> popup-menu item "Show Categories"

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You can safely uninstall wifi-qcom-ac on your AC3.

infabo

Groups have been handy everywhere.

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what is the meaning of -1? Usually -1 means "start from end" or "reverse". But linked documentation is worthless as it describes nothing. MT is not even capable of naming arguments. <arg> is just lol. you have a haystack and a needle.

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Note. The new version is not released for the CSS106 models due to no changes to their specific firmware.

infabo

Why Not try Out yourself?

infabo

This is a bug. Already reported by several people.

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So, less "change just to be different", and more "don't change it if it works fine", please. More of "improvement". It is OK to "change" things if it gets better, right? Someone saying anything against? "Just to be different" is - I am 100% sure - n...

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There are many configuration file formats widely used. JSON or TOML or even YAML. But Mikrotik loves to maintain the legacy.

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Paternot, pe1chl is talking about Winbox configuration file. It lives where Winbox is installed, I hope you have these few extra kilobytes free on your Windows/MacOS/Linux device.

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Suggestions: - make the state files (settings, addresses, workspaces) human-readable e.g. by using JSON or XML format instead of binary This you and probably others suggested many times for years in Winbox release topics. It did not find an 👂 as they still opted for their proprietary binary Format....

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You have to open the terminal and navigate to the extract location, to run the binary manually - this is definitely "not OK".

That is not even true. If you use a GUI file manager you can simply double click the executable.

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👍

Many people are desperately seeking for a dashboard. With all the fancy 👖

The info is all inside ROS and already available throughout dozens of Winbox windows. But to have it on one single dashboard 🪟

😅 Some would pay extra for this.....

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As for me: I do not have any other mounts (neither volume, nor network, nothing else).

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Have you seen the RouterOS Log window? Same. New entries at the bottom. When you change sorting of "#"-column in log window from default ascending to descending -> new items are on top. When new items appear, they appear at top. So where is the issue here and why everyone so angry? It is ...

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Hm, but I assume that many professionals have Winbox running without closing for days or even weeks. They won't get notified

infabo

How frequently does Winbox check for updates? No notification until now.

So basically 24h since release of beta4. My running Winbox instance still does not show update notification on Linux client.

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Well, I gonna try this and drag it to Applications folder instead. Re-install beta3 and see what happens on update. Always thought MacOs is much more intuitive, but instead their DMG installers are cumbersome as hell.\ edit: I installed Winbox to Application directory. Triggered update. But still Wi...

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But your DMG installer did not offer me a way to add the app to the App directory. Other installers look like a drag-drop window showing the application you want to install, besides a text like "drag to app directory". You drag the icon and it is installed. But the Mikrotik Winbox installe...

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Big Sur here. Error handling is apparently not the highest of priorities in this beta - it is ok - beta break idc. It would help to have some kind of log file which I could hand over to Mikrotik for inspection. But logging/debugging is apparently no top prio either. And I guess a "I hit the up...

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Big Sur here. Error handling is apparently not the highest of priorities in this beta - it is ok - beta break idc. It would help to have some kind of log file which I could hand over to Mikrotik for inspection. But logging/debugging is apparently no top prio either. And I guess a "I hit the upd...

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Jeez, just launched beta3 on my Macbook. "Update available" it greeted me. It downloaded beta4 and Winbox closed itself after reaching 100%. But it did not re-launch again. And also my Winbox Icon on Desktop (thats where I dragged it from DMG installer) is gone now. Good job, Mikrotik. You...

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Well, Mikrotik AX devices are all but expensive.

infabo

How frequently does Winbox check for updates? No notification until now.

infabo

*) added command line launch parameters ( WinBox <connect-to> <addresess> <password>) Even though it's convenient to provide a password as a CLI argument, it's not a good idea to do that. Many CLI tools warn you when you still provide passwords via arguments. On Linux, all arguments can be seen in ...

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My compliments! Winbox 4.x now survives all network interruptions and even the reboot of the ROS device with an active connection open! This is a really good improvement compared to the constant disconnect messages in Winbox 3.x.

infabo

Maybe 20mhz channel width also resolves it on 7.15?

infabo

Winbox is no different to Webfig. Similar UI.

infabo

I guess you messed up you wifi config. what is it about .encryption=""?

infabo

Because wave2 package only existed until 7.12. It also was too big to be installed on 16MB flash devices.

infabo

Is it possible to use SWAP file in ROS? E.g. on a USB disk

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I'm not 100% sure anymore why I moved on to 7.16b/rc channel for that one device.

And added a scheduled reboot instead of downgrading to 7.15 again :P

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One of the reasons why I configured about a month ago a daily auto-reboot on 1 cap AC using wifi-qcom-ac driver... otherwise it kept crashing somewhere in the 2nd or 3th day of uptime. Now I control at least when it reboots, when nobody is connected. It's behaving nicely since then. Literally nothi...

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I wanted to suggest to just remove all the useless and conflicting config. But it is way too much and error prone as well (if you miss something). As gigabyte already suggested it is straight forward an clean. Mikrotik, if you are reading, I have a suggestion: add a quick-set profile for "AP on...

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Thanks, strods! I appreciate that you're maintaining the wifi-qcom-ac package. Will these changes be already in the 7.16rc, in version 7.16.0, or in a 7.16.1+ release?

infabo

Your CAPs have wifi-qcom-ac or wireless package installed?

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I think I’ll leave this topic for a while - at least until the first "Known issues to be addressed" have been implemented and further feedback is actually meaningful. This reflexive attitude of rejecting suggestions as soon as they are made reminds me too much of how politics in democracie...

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The detached window feature would make sense if there is only one Winbox instance running at a time. Since mostly several Winbox instances are running, detaching windows would create even more usability issues. What kind of issues? Like closing main window/instance which kills detached windows as w...

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Does anybody else have a problem with winbox not remembering password ? I check remember password but everytime i start winbox password is not saved. Passwords remembered on my machine. Linux client. Maybe you hit an UX trap. You probably need to enter your password and hit "save"-button ...

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I was actually working with some configurations on the mikrotik and then firesticks stopped working, i thought i did something wrong while configuring so i reset the configuration and started from scratch, it didnt work. If i connect directly to my ISP's router the firesticks (2) will work but not ...

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Turning of Auto-Updates is not the same as not updating your system at all. All these decades and Windows still hasn't managed to supply device drivers in a proper and easy way for users.

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Driver/Firmware/Bios updates are optionally. You can install these via WU without installing regular updates AFAIK.

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It was only native in Windows 95, all newer Windows used a completey different style of window and theme, and Winbox did not follow that.

And Winbox 4 is following Windows theme?

Let me quote first post:

- Apps are native!

;)

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No, the definition of native came up with mobile applications. I don't remember a term what it could have been named before that era.

infabo

Random google link: https://www.techtarget.com/searchsoftwa ... native-app

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Native in terms of: compiled to run on Windows OS only. Is that right?

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People are so gotten used to grey XP style interface, but are not used to the name? We call it winbox, because is easy to say and everyone knows what it is Because it was a native Windows application until 3.x. Now it is cross-platform and people ask questions. My house has windows too, and it is n...

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can't understand why it's still called 'WinBox' on macOS or Linux? The application is the "box". You open/manage sub-windows inside the application workspace. That's why it is a box of windows. WinBox. See now? But to be honest: I would get tired of always needing to explain and always he...

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I get Intel AX200 driver updates by Windows Update. Why the heck are you downloading drivers manually from Intel's website????

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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-fix-6062-lso-was-triggered/6e4655fc-54b8-422e-b893-cec9c40f7491 No help at all. Classic Microsoft Forum topic. Even if not related to wifi-qcom: On wifi-qcom-ac my Linux Notebook with AX200 very often refused to connect to 2.4ghz when chan...

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Known issues to be addressed: Improve contrast in both light and dark modes for old displays with low contrast ratio It's important to note that not only old displays or screens with low contrast ratios are affected, but also individuals with impaired vision can greatly benefit from improved contra...

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7.15+ wifi-qcom drivers are instable with Intel clients. That is already known and confirmed even by Mikrotik

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Never judged or stated that Windows 2000 was best looking of all times. All I said, it had some high degree of good usability at its time. Because back then Microsoft really collected feedback of UI changes from real user tests and only deployed a product that was already battle testesd. Nowadays ma...

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When someone writes that light gray font on white background is hard to read because of lacking contrast. It is preference and not willing to accept a change? This topic is your free user test panel. Suck up all the free info/feedback you get. It is about your company's software and you want it to s...

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It is not an old vs young thing. It is a fact, speaking for Microsoft OS, that usability was more important in times of win2000. I don't really care how it looks like in terms of visuals. It should look modern, I would not request win2k theme for Winbox. I am not an nostalgic idiot. But I care for u...

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lol, hope not app image or flatpak.....but maybe I am just biased

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One guy at reddit basically nailed it: https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/1cr2zov/comment/l3vi0h5 What made Windows 2000 good was that it was the final iteration on a UI that had been refined over five years. I like this approach much better than ripping it all up and starting again like Micr...

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Agree with 1) especially. Delay may help a little. In web applications one technique is drawing an invisible triangle from active menu item to submenu panel. So it can't trigger items hover on items below. People usually move the cursor not perfectly horizontally, especially when moving cursor towar...

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Well, the better is the enemy of the good.

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Implicitly yes. The CAPs are connect on ethernet ports of Wifi Capsman device. And Ethernet ports are usually on the bridge.

infabo

mktfan2, 👍

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I arranged my windows the same as on 3.x. Despite reducing the zoom to 84%, I am not able to see as much entries/lines/Infos on my screen as on the 3.x Winbox. And I have to add: on 3.x my route listing window has blank space on bottom, lots of free lines for more route entries. on 4.x, same size of...

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It is the same as in Windows: Windows UI visibility and usability peaked in the Windows 2000/XP days. Fully agree. Nothing to add. XP blue theme already was the beginning of a big decay. win 10 UI is the worst of all OS out there. MS Office had great usability until they introduced ribbons. Holy sh...

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I could find dozens of things that I disliked about Winbox 3.x UI. That's why I don't like to see it coming back. No sentiments. Within some iterations the new UI can become better than the 3.x interface - and look modern as well. That's how we should look at it. 3.x is history. And to be honest: if...

infabo

Ctrl+w already works. give it a try. ESC is used for which action?

infabo

Please don't bring back the old UI. Just take all feedback/input and improve the UI. It is a progress. Let's do it.

infabo

Yeah, basically hire a UX/UI engineer of Windows 95 project team. They had one hell of brilliant ideas and was the last time Microsoft improved their interface. Even in XP I used "classic mode" theme.....

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Thanks for mentioning. Having a top, a side and a bottom bar with actions is one of the most disturbing changes. And the bottom bar even lacks an EDIT button when an item is selected. Only double-clicks seems to be the only valid way to open an item according to designers.

infabo

Agreed.

infabo

Please elaborate

infabo

sessions are now named workspace. I was referring to that. but funny that I was ambiguous unintentionally

infabo

As long there is a workspace with 🪟 - the name Winbox is accurate.

ROSman is already reserved for the maybe upcoming devices controller. 🤣

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Now as you've mentioned it. Adding packet priorities for traffic on WiFI CAPsMAN (as there is local forwarding only) must be a PITA! This has to be done by hand and IMHO makes capsman completely obsolete. With wifi-qcom-ac you already need to configure vlans manually on caps, firewall mangle rules f...

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*) lte - improved modem AT/modem port open;

What is "modem port open"? Faster? More stable?

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Thanks eworm for submitting 4.x to AUR.

4.x: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/winbox
3.x: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/winbox3

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What are the requirements for WinBox 4?
Because on Debian 10, I'm getting an error:
./WinBox: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by ./WinBox)
Because on Debian 10 + wine 7.0, I'm getting an error:
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your platform is?

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Please read the whole topic before reporting missing features Normis, is it possible to keep the first post updated with all the info that was already gathered? It is hard for someone to read all comments - lots of comments, beautiful comments, nice comments, pretty comments. We have the best comme...

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Correct. You can't use "WiFi" menu for your local wireless interfaces. But if you have Mikrotik AX devices somewhere on your network, you can use the "WiFI Capsman" to manage them.

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I guess skin files support is not implemented. But I am sure it will come.

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Cool, now it's working on Mac OS Big Sur as well. Have to admit, GUI looks way cripsier on Mac than on my Linux machine. Wasn't that noticeable on WinBox 3.x to see a difference. Maybe Qt rendering isn't the best here on my machine or something (as even the icons look blurry). Not an issue on Mac. K...

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Most of the value is in the hardware anyway, few companies make outdoor reverse-PoE switches. Your device is a dumb power consuming nothing without SwOS. So don't talk BS. And Mikrotik won't open source SwOS anyways. It wouldn't help you either way, as bugs are not fixed by just the action of publi...

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Aha! Now we know it is based on Qt.

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I tried to manually install loaded missing ARM

Well, it is MIPSE platform and not ARM. You need the "wireless" package from the extra-packages ZIP.

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Mikrotik, please improve or add accessibility before releasing first stable version. 4.x is not use-able via keyboard, it has not a single keyboard hotkey (besides the single one mentioned in the starting post -> CMD+W); TAB navigation impossible, focus outlines, etc. missing. Check contrasts to com...

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petrb, I don't understand your problem or point you want to make. I use i3wm too and I see not a single difference between Winbox 3.x and 4.x in regards of closing it.

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Mikrotik is not willing to change anything in either their changelog structure, versioning, handling of breaking changes nor will they introduce deprecation warnings. That's not in their software engineering manual dated from 1999.

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@bunkerfox
you complaining they used c++ instead of Electron....just to say a few sentences later, that 50mb is ridiculously huge binary.

Sry mate, but this disqualified all of your feedback at a whole.

infabo

He came here for complaining only.

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I would like to see a feature to queue configuration changes, and when ready, apply all queued changes at once. This is especially useful when working remotely on a device where you have to change the IP address configuration of the uplink interface and it's default gateway. Currently you can't do ...

infabo

Create a symlink for file. Even NTFS supports junctions

infabo

I agree with what @sirbryan says.

+1. Truly a sir.

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- Most importantly, since it's all built from zero, we have the ability to quickly change and fix things! I have high hopes in this. Since it is still the first beta, many things can be subject to change. I hope that progress over the next months is so positive that even pessimists "Winbox 3.x...

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Patronising? You just suggest to use ESC to close windows....

infabo

You can set your hopes in 7.17. Introducing "new" fixes in a RC is not the goal of a RC release.

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well, ideally it would be <esc> rather than <ctrl>+w

Please look up the meaning of pressing ESC key on a terminal. Spoiler: it is not for closing a terminal session.

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Terminal is inside Winbox, it's the same app. If you need to pass commands to linux in your terminal, those shortcut keys must work. One workaround would be that you must click with mouse on Terminal window to be able to type, but I guess many will not like this. People expect possibility to start ...

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Yes, why CMD+W on Mac OS but off-standard CTRL+SHIFT+W??? All browsers use CTRL+W for closing tabs/windows. People are used to this shortcut very well This is because in the Terminal window maybe you have SSH into some Linux system and running VIM, Terminal listens to all shortcut keys. CTRL+W is &...

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I have a gut feeling that complaints about low contrast come from people that have dust layer on screens :D Can't reproduce normis, very simple, just make sure your UI satisfies WCAG standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/ Constrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ At one of t...

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I don't know if NXDOMAIN (non-existing domain) is the same as "NEGATIVE" from Mikrotik DNS cache.

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Then your upstream DNS server responds with 0.0.0.0. Basically it. It is a negative answer, Mikrotik puts 0.0.0.0 in their cache. This breaks basically any FWD entry for this parent zone as I mentioned before. I can confirm. Negative answers are cached and live until you flush the cache. This is re...

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TIL: there is

/ip/dns/cache/all/print

which shows you really all cache entries.

Unlike

/ip/dns/cache/print

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Then your upstream DNS server responds with 0.0.0.0. Basically it.

infabo

This is not specific to 7.16. It has been this way < 7.16 as well. It bugged me as well.

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In fact negative DNS entries are cached. I got the whole TLD (.private) cached as NXDOMAIN and the FWD didn't work. I tested the whole thing and provided evidence to Mikrotik support. Is this a 7.16 behaviour? I can't see any NXDOMAIN cache entry added on 7.15.3 when doing e.g. :put [:resolve foo.p...

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I would not buy non-ARM architecture if I were you.

https://mikrotik.com/products/group/wir ... rm64%22]#!

NetBox 5 ax looks pretty decent.

infabo

I really, REALLY hope, that v3 will be supported by ROS for many years to come.
Ditto ...

Winbox 4 for Microsoft Windows looks more like a Apple Mac interface than a Microsoft Windows Interface

I am glad that CLI is built-into ROS :D

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I don't want to sound so negatively but some really bad practices (in terms of UI) made it into this new Winbox. Are there any UI/UX designers working for/at Mikrotik?

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amaranthvanni, you disclose answers from Mikrotik support. Show your inquiry as well. For the sake of transparency.

infabo

The font should be lighter. More dark shades/gradations. There are some applications that do this quite well, like Postman, Firefox, JetBrains IDE, etc.

infabo

Beware that ...
-Mikrotik does not activate WMM if not set in config

I just wanted to correct this statement.

infabo

I am now saying something that sounds very ungrateful: DarkMode is too dark.

infabo

Edit - lack of gridlines is an absolute PITA

+1

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Just tried to install Winbox on Mac Os Big Sur 11.7.10. But once I try to launch the app it crashes immediately on startup with a message in german "Datei nicht gefunden" (file not found") and that's it. Anyone an idea what I did wrong? Too stupid to install a DMG in like 10 years Mac...

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there is a barely noticeable disconnect button on top right of window....

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Mikrotik does enable WMM by default on 802.11n/ac.

wmm-support (disabled | enabled | required; Default: disabled) Specifies whether to enable WMM. Only applies to bands B and G. Other bands will have it enabled regardless of this setting

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Something wrong with your system fonts. Try another PC? Lol. I have no issues on any other application on this Linux PC. Please take my comment as it is. Just observed a crash: - Open winbox - set zoom level to 67% - connect to router - winbox crash Does not happen on 100%, 92%, 84%, 75%. edit: thi...

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This new GUI takes some getting used to. The interface feels too "open," with a lot of empty space at 100% zoom. It looks better at 84%, but then the text gets blurry in some places, and there are font glitches. The comments on entries are hard to notice. The collapsible sections are espec...

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I think I understand your use-case - but not your explanations why it would break. Mikrotik DNS client does - AFAIK - not cache NXDOMAIN. So no matter how often you try to resolve "<random>.private": once you make an NS resolve request to "subdomain1.private" the FWD entry will b...

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you can look up the discussion on the negative impact of the original change here in the topic.

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I think this is worth reporting to https://help.mikrotik.com/servicedesk/servicedesk

And:

*) dns - revert "match NXDOMAIN static entry only if other type entries for the same name are not found" (introduced in v7.16beta7);

Glad to see this changed revered. 👍

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ppptran, this is your first comment in this topic. Have you reported your issue somewhere else? Mikrotik are no mind-reader.

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yea, googled it for you: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 3fc48eb1bc

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"Slow wifi" is like going to my mechanic and telling him to fix a "slow car". It is the car from my uncle and I already tried to clean the spark plugs.

Sry, I'll try to be gentle

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I've recently been tasked to assist with a WiFi issue at a company of roughly 40 - 50 users.

Well, then start by describing the issue you need to resolve first.

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The link mentions $(HOSTNAME) but to me it's unclear where the value of this variable actually comes from (and how it connects to a specific lease entry).

It comes from the DHCP client.

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Every other DHCP server supports this. If you say so... At least some really widely used one support this indeed: - ISC DHCP by using a "host" declaration - see https://kb.isc.org/docs/isc-dhcp-41-manual-pages-dhcpdconf - dnsmasq by using the "dhcp-host" option. see https://linu...

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I even changed the DNS on the PCs to use 1.1.1.1 in case it was a DNS problem.

did it work?

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https://en.meo.pt/frequently-asked-ques ... -telemovel#

and update your modem firmware - see red message top right.

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So "E" is just another victim of Latvian school of inventing BS.

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Switching between bands on same AP is also called roaming AFAIK.

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Yes, AX200 is pretty decent. Have one in notebook and one in desktop. Both work well.

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Easy bet. It is already known this is the root of the issue. That's why people commonly tinker around with connect-priority.

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Legacy wireless driver does not support 802.11w. So you won't spot a SA query timeout in HAP AC lite logs.

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Every ROSE has its thorn

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PS: with "sa query timeout issues" I don't mean the sometimes appearing log items. It is normal to see some timeouts because of different reasons (client out of range, etc.). I rather mean these excessive and log pulluting sa query timeouts that can't be normal. one example here: https://f...

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Because they want to surprise us!

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Operators use flashfig and ignore the default password - or how do they? Can a mobile operator request devices without the sticker? Operator may not want user to see these credentials as user should not be able to change config.

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And the best: as there is no default config that does anything useful there are also no concerns. You could leave first Ethernet port open for provisioning - like holding reset button 2sec on boot - so all professionals are happy again. You could add an "provision-initial-password" endpoi...

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It is already a misconception to ship with default configuration. Trying to guess all needs. Impossible. But in reality most people need little adjustments to the default configuration. That's what someone can do by using QuickSet already. No need to have a firewall enabled by default when using the...

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Hardware is most probably not the issue.

Installing beta just gets you into trouble and I won't recommend it. These are more like nightly builds.
Stable branch is where the real beta ends up.

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https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... NATHelpers

Well, I have no hands on experience with SIP but shouldn't it be sufficient to configure a STUN server and configure your custom SIP service ports under up/firewall/service-ports/sip? No need for all this firewall filter hell.

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My impression of hottest topics in last 6 months:

- confusion of legacy capsman and wifi Capsman
- serious troubles with AX devices, mostly disconnects and SQ query timeouts, FT working poorly, poor signal or throughput on HAP AX3 especially
- confusion of legacy wireless with new wifi

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Yes, "already" would have been crystal clear for me. But as a non native speaker I cant tell for sure if the the sentence with "now" has the same meaning.

Do you know the scene from Spaceballs movie?

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Love this post

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Not unlike what happens now with credit/debit cards

To be fair: you said "now" like it is something new.

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Not unlike what happens now with credit/debit cards (the PIN cannot be shipped in the same envelope as the card), the password should be delivered to the customer through a separate shipment or different channel. I don't know where you live, but I never ever received a credit/bank card shipped with...

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can't find the mentioned paragraph. have a link?

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@gigabyte
Indeed. Seems like they don't have enough resources to excel in both segments.

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Yes, of course. But we don't know whether Mikrotik introduced it because of law or standards.

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Maybe ETSI TS 103 645?

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