MikroTik

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Are you sure that anyone cares about entropy?

Don't ask me, it is Mikrotik who create the passwords to some standard or expectation they have. I merely point out the security difference from changing the set.

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ACHKLNPTUX479

Readable, but also requiring 35% more characters for equivalent security (from 5.2 down to 3.8 bits of entropy per character).

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Your problem is highly likely to be addressing. If it powers up then PoE variations are unlikely to have anything to do with it. When you say you cannot ping it, where did you find the IP to use? What does "port 15 of mine" mean? What is your network? DHCP server? You have given very littl...

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Normally I use Safari 18.4 on macOS 15.4, flawlessly.

For entertainment value, this reply is in current Librewolf in Debian running under UTM. No problems.

If it were common browser or OS, there would be many reports, rather than one.

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The OP was very clear: they specified four downstream ports. Add one uplink = 5 total. Done. Cameras use fairly trivial bandwidth and would easily run on the unswitched port on the Hex Refresh. Multi-port switches sold for camera use typically have 100 Mb/s ports, and that is ample. Configuring ROS ...

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Ahh. I allowed myself to jump to conclusions ....

I did the same myself the way it was discussed, until I paused to remember how my own system works.

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The Reolink has PoE ports for the cameras, and a single LAN line to the Hex or whatever. The Hex does not deal with cameras, only the traffic selected to be obtained from the NVR. On the connections, my personal view is that I would not use a cloud server for Chinese cameras/NVR. That is exactly why...

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@antoniocerasuolo have you ever checked whether your Reolink phones home? Firewall functions can be useful for locking down as well as for blocking out.

To clarify, are you accessing your NVR from outside your network? If so, are you relying on NATting in with its password or using a VPN?

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the full traffic of all my cameras will be on this device going out towards internet therefore will absolutely avoid using port 1! While what you are doing will work perfectly well, how many cameras do you have? Their traffic rates are normally very low, a few Mb/s each, with no chance of overloadi...

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Try making the bridge the dhcp client, not wlan1

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The ax2 is about a millimetre or two larger in all dimensions as you can find on the product pages. Ac2 is larger than ac lite. The ax2 has eight times as much RAM and storage compared with the ac2. Other than the useful little mAP, I do not buy routers with 16MB storage at all. For me it is not a q...

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. A cable with internet access is connected to the first port of the MikroTik Hex Lite. If I connect the Dahua camera directly (without using the MikroTik), the video stream from the camera is successfully displayed in the DMSS mobile app. Therefore, something is likely missing or misconfigured in ...

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Is the mobile application DMSS? Why do you say the cameras appear to be connected when you are unable to see an image? Is the symptom a rapidly increasing percentage which stalls before reaching 100%, with no image? If so, that means no connection. To what is the Hex lite connected, that the cameras...

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There is a whole thread on this somewhere. Some are, many are not. I say "many" because many will have been sold in proportion to the complaint level. I think the problem more likely to be physical and radio environments than software (or hardware?) given solidity of the device for other p...

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Expanding on that slightly, as @mszru implies, your 'real' WiFi must be the DHCP client on your foo network, with the virtual bar network the slave because bar will not work until the foo end is up and running -- it need's foo's parameters, as mszru stated. If you are using also the physical ports t...

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I have used a few boards using Discourse (which I read correctly, but double-checked). I think the software works well for users despite the apparent space inefficiency, being highly readable and navigable, though I have never been keen on "privileged areas" on any forum despite having bee...

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Australian plugs also have 3 pins and we use 230V but the pins are physically incompatible with UK. Configs default to Latvia. I suspect that items shipped here come without cables or power packs at all, but local ones are added by the distributor. Some boxes bulge from ill-fitting power supplies so...

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As an alternative data point, as I write my ax3 is providing 864 Mb/s through a wall with zero drop-outs observed, running 7.18.2 in a standard configuration for my country, no special tuning; over 1 Mb/s in the study where the ax3 sits high on top of a bookshelf. It is sufficient such that I droppe...

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Probably that it has UK-pattern pins on the plug. Sfaik everything else is configured in software in RoS.

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Wonderful to know. A drawing might have been helpful.

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The text diagram appears to show the RB5009 all on its lonesome, nothing downstream. A drawing might have been helpful.

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@rajdey1, how about you put up a diagram for clarity of primary connections/communications between the houses and ISP(s)? Some of the discussion here indicates that it is unclear. Given you do not appear to have taken up excellent advice to practise on a cheap Mikrotik locally, if you ship the RB500...

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@mkx, Skift is avoiding potential ax3 problems by having ax2.

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I appreciate your enthusiasm. I am a relatively recent user of Mikrotiks myself so I am still learning, with several set up in quite different configurations Having read your queries, the answers already imply some prior knowledge of RoS. You are trying to bootstrap from nothing. If you would prefer...

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Yes, the one which is in common between any two points, not affecting communication with other points. That is, each attached device agrees with the AP their security options and WiFi protocols (4,5,6,7) independently, on a given channel. That at least is my reading of it. Certainly AX devices are d...

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Well, no configuration has been posted, so not much to do but chat amongst ourselves. I have a not-hAP (a map lite) running master and slave interfaces on 7.18, 7.18.2 as of yesterday, without a hitch, and had it also on an ax2 until I reconfigured it to 2.4 up 5 down a month ago. @sk0003, please po...

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A small note which is missing from some of the instructions one finds, though it is noted by @w32pamela above. It tripped me up when I changed edge router and did not configure reservations correctly. The static IP reserved for access to the bridge must be outside the pool distributed by the router ...

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To save anyone else the trouble, here are your first instructions:

Go to Terminal
/export file=choosaname
In the Files menu, Download this file

Paste it here between the code tags, </>

Then we might have some information.

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As well as the above I am also seeing certain threads - storage, rules of Mikrotik club - simply will not load to the end, or if you try to scroll down it drops the connection and goes to a blank screen. This has been happening for a few days.

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Performance differences have never been a 1:1 function of clock speed for a system. The ac2 actually gains in some cases over the ax2 by virtue of handling half the data width for an instruction, but I see no point other than marginal cost in going for 32 bit not 64, 128/16MB rather than 1GB/128MB. ...

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Sure, but half my answer was far enough.

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Here is a handy guide for Australia. Is that far enough?
https://wifiwizardofoz.com/wp-content/ ... limits.pdf

4W on 2.4, up to 4W on 5, depending on band.

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I find a conflict between this They just stay in the niche with no serious competition - small ISPs and CPEs and the critique in the same post. Is there an objection to Mikrotik successfully identifying and exploiting a niche? What else is a business supposed to do, when they are unlikely to achieve...

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VLANS are LANs without need for extra ports but imposing technical requirements on switches. in either case security is obtained from traffic rules between subnets, not from vLAN vs LAN. It depends on what suits you.

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Whether you need something faster depends on your internet speed and total load. From what you show, you could equally use vlans or create separate subnets on those ports. Do you have things that need to be distinguished on the switch? You mentioned only cameras which are separable on the router fro...

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There are clues, for example RB vs CCR vs CRS, while the 'c h m w' codes suggest a use or location and lite is less, but there is no straightforward system to it. You could read this: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/ROS/pages/17498146/Product+Naming There is also quite a lot of useful informat...

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Have you requested this from support@mikrotik, @chivalry?

This is a user forum. The fact of this post here rather than a straightforward request, the form of that post, and even your username, all smack of grandstanding.

If you have a direct request of Mikrotik, then ask Mikrotik.

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If you have a separate physical port available you do not need a vLAN. Your idea No. 2 is normal practice, remove a port from the bridge, give it a separate DHCP address, pool, server, and (after testing access) allow management / Winbox only from that port. It should all work normally. If it does n...

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In relation to my earlier post that it could be a useful tool but not a panacea, it is worth pausing over AI's learning ability. AI systems are trained (I will not comment further on their training sources) then presented as is. Their knowledge base, basically an ability to associate stored tokens, ...

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... you don't want a word processor correcting your sentences? That's literally what millions of people rely on daily with spell check and grammar tools. @3zzy, your example is perfect, in the sense that millions of people commit daily blunders of spelling and grammar simply because they accept wha...

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Is the same SSID used on both ax3 as well as on both bands? If so, on your computer switch WiFi off for ten seconds then on again. I have an ax3 which is running 7.18.1 with 960 Mb/s typical at the moment, with a couple of people active on it. I noticed when I upgraded from 7.18 that speed dropped t...

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The GL-BE3600 looks very impressive. In real terms for lone travel I have found the little mAP, or mAP Lite powered directly from the computer, works remarkably well despite the apparently paltry specs by today's standards. I run 7.18 on mine. Obviously I am not game-playing or downloading gigabytes...

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Create content that many users can't distinguish from human expertise This statement is two-edged. To me it is also the critical junction, like waves and tides on sands. You can see ocean on one side, dry land the other, so it is our worry, capacity and virtue to analyse the uncertainty between. Al...

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@anav, when I looked I decided that either I did not understand it or I did not want to, probably both.

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@merkkg, it's pretty much ROS default. Here are the changed parts, where 5 GHz and 2 GHz are configured with the same SSID and security. # 2025-02-28 18:37:26 by RouterOS 7.18 # software id = Q07T-KVUZ # # model = C53UiG+5HPaxD2HPaxD # serial number = <> /interface bridge add admin-mac=<> auto-mac=n...

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People have different experiences. I am sitting in the next room from to my recently purchased ax3 (i.e. a few metres through an internal wall), pulling 1020 Mb/s on a portable, a slight peak as it normally sits at 960 Mb/s when I check. If I switched it off I would still see a few hundred Mb/s from...

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All your connections being normal, I suggest netinstall.

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People in other time zones need to wake up, have coffee, do other work. Are you saying that you could connect with Winbox under 7.17 but not under 7.18, with no other changes? You can see the MAC address but not connect using it? If so, the bridge is unlikely to be the problem whatever other foibles...

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Yes. I would not insist on... Neither would I. I was clarifying the scenario. In that model station A was an AP, station B was CPE, an AP to some and independently a client to Station A. I mentioned dedicating the 2.4GHz link for backhaul to maximise range, given the implication that the first AP d...

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Are you discussing this scenario?
MT1 is connected by Ethernet to the main router.
MT1 is an AP using separate SSID for 5GHz and 2GHz bands.
MT2 is a client on 2GHz to MT1 and an AP on 5GHz, the same SSID as MT1, bridged.
Clients use The 5GHz band.

If that is the plan it is straightforward.

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The hex refresh is a more powerful device than the hex S. Given home network plans generally available in Australia I am not seeing a benefit from linking the router and switch with fibre. Would an RB5009 have sufficient ports that you could dispense with the switch? It has SFP+ and a 2.5G port to h...

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Interesting thank you teslasystems. I agree with the points around delineation and highlighting of buttons. That is certainly to what I am accustomed and prefer. I found the pale blue at the top of windows too bright, excessive contrast, and the header font is horrible. If you already have contrast ...

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I will come back to the rules mentioned by rextended after some study later. Time zones. For reassurance, we are discussing an internal router designed to further limit access to and fro. - There is zero access from the NVR to the internet, DNS and NTP requests being captured and answered by the ups...

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Thank you for the comments, anav. After I posted I realised neighbors would probably be involved but waited for comments because there might be more to it. I will test in expectation of marking this as solved. The dstnat rule is insufficient / incomplete. I forgot to go back to it after being distra...

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I have a map lite which I have reconfigured successfully as CPE, i.e. wireless DHCP client on WAN with Ethernet DHCP server on LAN. I have added a virtual wireless as a DHCP server using a different address pool from LAN. I have prevented Winbox access to the mapL by IP, allowing it on mgt-vwan, and...

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I will stand by my original response after all that. The question was unusual but so what? Using a single port in known and easily remembered relation to others, having also a non-stock IP address so I can use the port normally and not just for Winbox, all make sense on the simple proviso that use i...

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Off topic discussion is there: viewtopic.php?t=215057

The requested topic does not exist.

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Always use the lowest non-WAN port, is a simple aide-memoire.
Remembering your address in the /30 is immaterial if you use DHCP there. I rashly use /29.

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Those who are commenting on how Winbox4 is great and have no issues,

Point out a single person who said that.

Please try to stay credible.

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Actually, there is something to compare. I already mentioned I have been using it pretty much since it came out. A few hours straight is also a reasonable test for interface tolerance. Neither you nor I are Mikrotik's sole client nor client type. Yes, I know you were talking about different interfac...

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I used Winbox 4 for a few hours yesterday, gradually changing and testing a configuration essentially the reverse and extended from default. MAC access is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. There were no glitches. My eyes did not bleed once. I have not needed W3 since an early beta of W4. I apprec...

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RouterOS is amazing feature to value ... solidification of the features, documentation and support. Do you see no tension between those statements? It is Mikrotik's problem to thread that needle, ours whether to buy or not. I appreciate your advocacy for a still better combination, but I think it a...

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Native as in cross-platform without WINE.

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WinBox 3 is not gone
It's not gone, but you stopped fixing the bugs. And the main question, WHEN it will be gone...

You mean, like Windows 7 & 8, 10 this year.

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How does NAT acceleration relate to a query on PPPoE? I understood these were different levels of the stack. Would not RSS support for multiple cores be the issue, reliant on the NICs?

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Another strike against Winbox!

YMMV

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These also open in Omnigraffle Pro, for those users.

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The first two options make no commercial sense. You do not arbitrarily do one and not the other.. You can vary resource allocation, or buy more as anav said. Options "Both", "Not sure" and "Don't care" are valid responses given the inadequate phrasing of the question.

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I used the Linux version (on a headless box controlled from my M2) and it was smooth, easier than the explained process for Windows. A Mac Unix version need only have the same CLI, no GUI, given it is unlikely to be used by people wholly unfamiliar with Terminal, so I might hope such a version would...

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Up again for me. One of those passing glitches, or perhaps like the DDoS problem with the forum.

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Attempting to open RouterOS Documentation https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/ I get the error "unable to open a secure connection" in a couple of browsers. When I tried to Check for Updates on a Hex with 7.16 it reported "ERROR: no internet connection". I have secure connection to an...

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@Josephny, it is an old joke, originally presented in the format you might see on building, mining or manufacturing sites, 'x Number of Days since Workplace Injury'. Try searching 'DNS meme' or 'DNS haiku' for a couple of versions. Reality tends to be that it is not in fact DNS itself but a user err...

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Thanks mkx. I have not done that because amid further testing I remembered: Number of days since it was not DNS = 0 Well, technically not the fault of DNS (really DHCP) itself but my failure to clear cache and at one point having multiple paths to different network points. The configuration appears ...

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This seems the obvious thread to resurrect for this problem. I have configured a hap ax lite as a wireless AP, by following the essential instructions above. I connect it to the parent router and the bridge-lan gets an IP address from it. I can join its WiFi network, or connect via ethernet and in e...

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Is the switch new? Have you tried all options of characters that look like I or O? You probably have but I need to ask. I sometimes photograph the password, then prop the phone up next to the screen having zoomed in on the text, just to be sure I am doing it correctly. I use a current Mac to log in ...

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Why is double NAT spoken about as if it were a zombie about to eat your brains? It is a routine configuration where needed, gaming aside.

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... every other implementation I've seen will typically omit "ListenPort" so the client device can automatically find an available port to use it is the default port, and is used by other implementations I have seen. If you do not configure a port on which to listen, how does a peer first...

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Yes, with the text included in the active area. “Blankness” referred to without.

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On either OS it is normal for the active area to encompass the box and its description ( "Enabled" here), not the box and blankness.

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I missed the -o option although I considered it might just be waiting for another. Thanks Patrik.

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Given the command was basically correct (as since proven), the problem lay in my Linux setup. Abandoning the NUC with a single ethernet port, I first installed Linux on a 4-port Jetway box but found continuing problems. I cannot say certainly whether that was error on my part or some of the reputed ...

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I have not seen a router that looked like that before.

Sticker sheet marketing opportunity for Mikrotik?

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Having successfully upgraded a map lite to 7.16.2, including routerboard firmware, I tried in Winbox 4 /system reset configuration with default config ( no config deselected) whereon it bricked. Reset (hold until alternating flashing lights) did not resolve it so, not having any Windows, I tried Net...

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I have since reconfigured, however I first used my hAP ax2 as a straight ethernet router, with otherwise superfluous WiFi as the management portal rather than reserving any ethx. In a sense each Mikrotik router is exact in its hardware, not expandable and always with some complaints about "but ...

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Ziter's mention of the RB5009 as if it were the next alternative to the Hex R was a giveaway. The hAP ax2 has nearly twice the performance of the Hex and WiFi 6 radios as well for less than twice a Hex R, less than half the price of an RB5009.

All of the above are great value in their niches.

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So you want a straight bridge, wireless included, not a router.

Search for full instructions. The basic process is to connect via MAC address, delete the existing configuration, create a bridge and add everything to it, with wireless set up as a DHCP client for connection.

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Connect the camera to ether2. On a mAP ether1 defaults to upstream (DHCP client, not server) while ether2 is for downstream devices.

That is a first action. Without a configuration export neither I nor the people who actually know stuff could really comment further.

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I worry about Mack Usman, with an address in the Phillipines but currently shown swimming in the ocean half way between Australia and Antarctica.

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While I believe this is so, I wish to confirm that the setting of DHCP server or client is independent from /ip filter settings. The context is one where I wish to imprison a device so that it can reach nothing, but my LAN devices can request data from it, roughly this as server-client order, with t...

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... for my local situation the 5009 costs almost twice as the 4011 does.

Were you looking at the RB5009UPr+S+IN or RB5009UG+S+IN? In my distant market the RB5009UG is the same price as the 4011, but the RB5009UPr over 40% more, consistent with Mikrotik's quoted pricing.

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not everyone has eyesight of a military sniper But most likely everyone has a phone with a camera and thus zoomable photos on hand. This has been mentioned at least three times in this thread. As I get older I occasionally have to manage small or unclear writing, or hills that take longer to climb....

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You could plug into port 1 when you need the access. It is no bad idea to have a port dedicated to management, with management inaccessible from other ports.

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My problem is that I can't connect the hAP directly to the RB So you need to solve this, if not with wire then with additional wireless, though that will hardly meet the implied aim of doing this for the price of a second hand hAP AC. The alternative is to bridge the rb4011 and run DHCP from the IS...

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RoBox, universally

from ROSBox

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There are too many institutions with password limits. The worst are those which do not advise their limit but silently discard any text beyond it.

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Have u tried solder and works?

Maybe he was hoping that over the last 11 months it would just congeal into place.

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The 5009 is 230€, the ax3 is 140€. My brain is somehow convinced that simply de-wirelessing the ax3 into a new product would drop the new product's price down to 100-ish €. Unlikely, if your answer is not the current ax2. In manufacturing terms drop a few euros for the saved wireless card and anten...

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I understand the "ax3 without wireless" argument - and indeed agree with the sentiment. What I'm questioning here is the cost difference (will it be significant?) and the market for it (will enough people buy it instead of his wireless brother?). Since we can disable wireless... Regarding...

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Even installing the Audience gave me 2 plants.

My day needed this.

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Before you worry about reinstalling, have you considered placement? I have a hAP ax lite upstairs so I went downstairs and to the other side of the house where I got good signal on both Mac and iPad, so I know it works. Its real job is to talk to a bunch of sensors at both ends of the house, dealing...

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I have been looking at a similar thing myself. There is no problem having the same SSID, in fact it is a better idea than separate unless you really want to know which AP you are using. However, it appears to be better to set different channels if you can, so they do not interfere. I have a Linksys ...

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Mine Bitcoin on a 60 Cube Pro.

I'll get my coat.

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@mozerd: Call it historical. They released a faulty product (early version manufacturing fault) then made it difficult for people not in the US to get straightforward replacement, having no local dealers at the time. I also disliked the app-based management which required cloud connection to work, a...

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I have used a Firewalla Gold. It can be put in bridge mode behind a normal router and still provide its usual traffic inspection and blocking. My reasons for dissatisfaction with Firewalla have nothing much to do with its capability. Today that J3160, with expanded memory and storage, is reinstalled...

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hAP AX lite, previously mentioned, runs ROS7. I see it at the first site I checked in the US for $59 each. Bulk discounts are usually available.

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MrYan, that thread related to problems for some users achieving only 1Gb/s where they expected 2.5Gb/s, which is not available in the RB750Gr3 nor requested by philip2284. Even if that ticket were a real problem, the RB5009 still has the RB750 for breakfast, albeit more expensively.

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@tangent When I saw your linked basic config document I snaffled the link immediately, despite the fact I have already set up a few Mikrotiks and have other bookmarks in my "Basic setup" folder. My problem is simply that as a home user I rarely need to touch them so a quick re-orientation ...

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There is a Mikrotik app in the store. I have it on an iPad but always use winbox on MacOS so cannot speak for how good or reliable it is.

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I'd be very surprised if the ROS v6 documentation was perfectly accurate No documentation I write is every 100% bug free...

Wasn't that already answered?

No, bugs are also not fixed, except if they are security related.

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Did you consider hAP ax lite? A port fewer, nothing spent on 5 GHz, pretty similar performance.

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Among your list I have experience with Firewalla. An advantage is that today the IDS/IPS cost is in the capital for the box, not ongoing. That is not guaranteed to continue. Firewallas are also easy to configure though their configuration model (rule scopes) is different from that of ROS and open so...

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When you say "the label on the antenna and the hardware mac address don't match", are you sure it is not the case that one is the ethernet MAC and the other (antenna) the WiFi MAC? Usually one sees both on the label for wireless-capable devices. You expect them to be different.

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Frank52, yes, 6.49.x and 7.x.x are different releases, which you can treat separately. I have older mAP devices running happily on 6.49.11, will soon be updated to 6.49.12, where the more modern routers (more memory, more storage, more functions) run 7.13+

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It's still called Winbox.
Well, Xbox was taken.

Tikbox

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Hello max456, welcome to the forum. Like other technical forums, it is normally expected here that questions come after searching. If I google "Mikrotik Routerboard 750 reset" for example, I find a link to MT documentation with answers: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Reset+Butt...

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Having now tried it, I will return to items 2-4. 2. Enables return to the layout last used in a given connection and session. 3. Possibly, that session/layout names were marked according to whether devices were currently accessible ( conforming with neighbours check for saved layouts) 4. Session Lay...

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1. No
2-4 Never considered it.
5. I know it exists.

I could consider it now.

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Mikrotik never made Winbox cross-platform and I prefer not to use Microsoft products.

Winbox is not to my knowledge a Microsoft product.
WINE is not to my knowledge a Microsoft product.
Winbox works under WINE (or Crossover).

Now you can use the better tool.

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Thanks for the clarification Amm0

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I read recently about EoIP being used to create a wireless backhaul between two routers. Theoretically, it seems one could create a mesh AP system that way, rather than just 'joining' two ethernet LANs, possibly exploiting additional virtual WiFis. I've not done it, and don't ask me about performanc...

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Documentation lists these:

Possibility to bridge LANs over the Internet
Possibility to bridge LANs over encrypted tunnels
Possibility to bridge LANs over 802.11b 'ad-hoc' wireless networks

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/EoIP

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A diagram of your network, with IP addressing?

An export of your mAP lite config?

These will help towards answers.

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If MikroTik had wished to reproduce the hAP ac form factor as an AX device, why would they not already have done so rather than investing in design of the hAP ax2? Have you considered there may have been heat issues in such an attempt (look at the ax2)? Maybe that form factor can or will be reiterat...

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PPPoE is apparently single threaded on Linux or Unix variants. I have not seen that VyOS (Debian Linux) is different. I do not know anything about accel-ppp. That would not account for two of your cores being 100%, nor would I expect that of the PPPoE core on common loads. I have not seen that probl...

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Reset to default config.
Connect port I to ISP. It is a DHCP client.
Connect your computer to port 2 (or higher). It is a DHCP server, distributing addresses in the 192.168.88.0/24 range.
Connect admin with given password and configure the router.

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Winbox does not connect to which IP address? 192.168.88.1, the default? Connecting to a port which is not port 1? Using the password printed on the L009 label?

The WAN address assigned has nothing to do with the downstream address for your devices.

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Thank you mkx. Understood (I believe). I will be trying this in the new year so expect no confirmation of success or problems for a while.

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Would anyone who has done much the same care to comment on the following, whether to say I have the right general idea or to correct my course? Context is that I wish to connect a cctv camera to an NVR on the other side of a plaster wall. The NVR is the DHCP server for the camera of course, and conn...

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I grab my phone to photograph the label on each one on unboxing. I have a permanent record on hand (including MAC addresses, serial) in case of need. I can easily expand the view for readability, no separate magnifier involved. I can see the passwords on or adjacent to my computer when using them, r...

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...said ChatGPT more than two years after the event.

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From which country on the planet would you like a reply?

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Essentially, ROS is an application on Linux. To that extent, it is perfectly reasonable to make an analogy with tightly woven applications on MacOS, Windows or FreeBSD, not to mention Linux again. Staggering to behold, other routing and firewall software products also have bugs and upgrade glitches....

phascogale

As a passing comment, the hap ax life is a usefully flexible little device. You are using one for routing, no wireless. I am using two for wireless (AP for Things) with no significant routing (I do keep a separate management network by habit). It is cheap enough that the additional functionality is ...

phascogale

normis, wine worked perfectly for me for months, then I had dropouts not apparently attributable to Winbox actions on my part (i.e. doing nothing at the time), so I ascribed the problem to the 14.1.2 MacOS update and tried something else which immediately worked. I can imagine that under the hood th...

phascogale

My recent experience is that some IoT devices want to see only WPA2, and will refuse to connect at all if WPA3 is offered, so try unticking that. I did as you are seeking, switched to a Mikrotik router with no problems using the same SSID/key. Since, I have changed the SSID and key (because it pleas...

phascogale

Yes, really :) but thank you for the link. There appears to be some less literal interpretation of “search for 196622” that I have missed in this forum software. I had seen that topic before by searching Crossover so I take it that would be the Gcenx build to which I referred above. Anyway, happy to...

phascogale

196622 produced no hits in Search and your mention is not a link. Are you referring to alternative builds? I am quite happy to support codeweavers who have provided a working solution. For their price, it is not worth my time either to seek alternative builds or to find and compile the source with e...

phascogale

While a native version would be good, I am finding no pain (Winbox itself aside) running Winbox in Crossover. Until yesterday I used Wine, but MacOS refused to believe it truly had permitted directory accesses without reminders, then with Sonoma 14.1.2 it started dropping out during sessions so I tr...

phascogale

Will it help in South Africa if I say Mikrotik is well available in Australia?

phascogale

Native language Australian, commonly recognised as English.
Notions of German.
Enough French for food, shelter and courtesy.
I live on the East coast, as do most of us here.

phascogale

You say you have bridged the linksys and have also implemented a working guest network. I have not looked up your specific device, but according to linksys here: https://www.linksys.com/gb/support-article/?articleNum=140727 your cannot do both. It looks like the Linksys is happily routing, and the R...

phascogale

I have been modifying some of my Mikrotiks away from the default 192.168.88.x address. This went without a hitch on a mAP and mAP lite, by modifying relevant octets in each of /IP server DHCP networks /IP address list /IP pool In both cases I attached via Winbox using the MAC address, ethernet for t...

phascogale

Good morning [here] loca995 I infer from your description that there are not many locations outside a 1-2 hr window, so the two principal suggestions (have an unplugged spare with a locally tested procedure to replace, or harden the power system) may be within scope on cost and complexity. Hardening...

phascogale

If you are coming from *sense then, to put it in a pretty basic way, MikroTik is the inverse in two respects. Using *sense on FreeBSD it is generally advised to avoid bridging on the router, because the CPU does all of the work. Most installations are on basic x64 hardware with no switch chip. On th...

phascogale

esebm, please give more complete descriptions. The problem is that, after the update, To 6.49.10, or after also completing the SSID password as shown by bpwl? ...I do not get any connection between the router and Roku at all 1. Have you entered a password in the Mikrotik configuration, hit Apply and...

phascogale

I wish to add a caveat to my earlier comment. While the setup performed as I said, I did not allow that different end devices also have different wireless performance. I have since installed a new Thing in one of the locations, the workshop. While it connects, performance is marginal. Ideally Thing ...

phascogale

... the lecture! Just what I need at 77 years of age.

It seems you were right; earlier is better.

phascogale

esebm, it may help if you do the simple things: state concisely what you want to achieve, with a sufficient network diagram, and show your current configuration obtained with export file=selectaname It may seem to you that you have already stated your problem(s) but in fact I see only statements of ...

phascogale

The WiFi password is a mystery belonging to you. If unknown, you can set it by logging in with admin. If the admin password is not empty (on a 6 year old router) then that too is your mystery, or you can try Manual:Reset and configure as necessary. Existence of methods to recover passwords without a...

phascogale

"Ambient" assumes free air dissipation of heat. If the device is in a cabinet then the issue is maintaining an air flow something equivalent to being in free air. Given the device specifications and tolerances, the real question is not the device but the air around it. My example is that l...

phascogale

Regarding range, I have a hap ax lite serving my IoT. To reach the most distant devices the signal passes from high in an upstairs central room to the front and other side of the house through 2-3 walls and timber floor. House footprint is well over 84 sq m. Although connectivity is fine, I am repla...

phascogale

As a dedicated user of Mac and Linux (or should I say a dedicated avoider of Windows and its apps?) I have surprised myself with my contentment with Winbox under Wine. I am not offering any points for the interface, just stability and functionality. In reality it is the latter factors which must be ...

phascogale

This thread could have been an interesting entry point to Mikrotik given I am not a network expert. I have some familiarity with OPNsense which uses a different model compared with ROS. Having lurked for a couple of months I am somewhat confident I will be able to handle this despite having done not...

phascogale

@3dfx
Thank you for straightforward instructions, success proven by using a mAP with WiFi WAN to make this post.

A useful start to my experience with Mikrotik (an RB5009 is also waiting for me).

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