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by gunther01
Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:32 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v7.15beta [testing] is released!
Replies: 503
Views: 126065

Re: v7.15beta [testing] is released!

I think Mikrotik can think of ECMP with BGP Also... Which will unlock more possibilities It can, and shows routes in the main FIB for multiple devices just fine.. It even shows routes for ECMP that aren't default originates just fine in the proper way as well.. Just not two default originate routes...
by gunther01
Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v7.15beta [testing] is released!
Replies: 503
Views: 126065

Re: v7.15beta [testing] is released!

Yes, ECMP lol.. These other two routers are directly connected to the 3 that is getting the defaults from the other two. So, should be the same cost(s) I do see them both in the OSPF LSA table. So, the router is getting both. I just find it odd that the main table doesn't show both, and that it's c...
by gunther01
Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:43 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v7.15beta [testing] is released!
Replies: 503
Views: 126065

Re: v7.15beta [testing] is released!

ehm.. you mean ECMP, it can be but only if the two routes have the same cost (to reach both devices advertising the default). And yes, you should see at least one of them in the routing table (as long as you do not have another better default from another source, or you are filtering it). Yes, ECMP...
by gunther01
Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v7.15beta [testing] is released!
Replies: 503
Views: 126065

Re: v7.15beta [testing] is released!

route will not show if that router is also originating default route and one of the other two routers selected it as best. I'm talking about the router that is receiving from two routers sending originate default. It would be the router choosing which one to pick that doesn't show both routers. Wou...
by gunther01
Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:32 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v7.15beta [testing] is released!
Replies: 503
Views: 126065

Re: v7.15beta [testing] is released!

We seem to be having issues with BGP with this version. I really don't have a baseline to go off of, except 7.14.2 seems to be working. In one case, I have two ospf advertise default routes from two routers pointed towards a FW. That firewall only shows one default route. Shouldn't it show both, but...
by gunther01
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:20 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v7.15beta [testing] is released!
Replies: 503
Views: 126065

Re: v7.15beta [testing] is released!

This may be by default and supposed to work this way. But, Using bgp, we had accidentally set redistribute static and connected in bgp. We "thought" turning off our output network would turn off any outbound network advertisements. But, that static route still pushed to our upstream. This...
by gunther01
Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:39 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v7.15beta [testing] is released!
Replies: 503
Views: 126065

Re: v7.15beta [testing] is released!

This may be by default and supposed to work this way. But, Using bgp, we had accidentally set redistribute static and connected in bgp. We "thought" turning off our output network would turn off any outbound network advertisements. But, that static route still pushed to our upstream. IMO, ...
by gunther01
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:48 am
Forum: Forwarding Protocols
Topic: Can't enter in 6 digit asn in communities
Replies: 2
Views: 305

Can't enter in 6 digit asn in communities

I think I'm doing this right.
But, every time I try to add our asn:xxx to community set. I get an error once I pass 5 digits on our ASN.. We have 6.
V7.15B8
by gunther01
Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Can't change Mac address
Replies: 1
Views: 308

Re: Can't change Mac address

Anyone??

Is this normal...?
How can you change it?
by gunther01
Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: Can't change Mac address
Replies: 1
Views: 308

Can't change Mac address

I have a CRS305 switch. One port in a lag group is showing 00:00:00:00:00:01 for it's mac address.. Is this normal somehow?? I have tried to manually change the address via cli using the set command, and also found a reset address command that neither worked.. Are the mac's locked down now in 6.49.1...
by gunther01
Tue Dec 19, 2023 9:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Feature requests
Replies: 1742
Views: 637480

Re: Feature requests

Ability to color the winbox header differently per device type. Or somehow allow the changing of the color and keep it persistant once changed.. This would allow me to make sure I don't "grab" the wrong window when I have 20 of them open and make a change in the wrong one. ie, green for cp...
by gunther01
Mon Oct 30, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?
Replies: 10
Views: 1349

Re: What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?

1500 for MTU, 1600 or higher for L2MTU across the whole path. We use 1560 on our MPLS interface settings to accommodate any tagging we do internal to VPLS tunnels.

The only one I can't seem to set any higher is the bridge group on the far side for the VPLS. It maxes out at 1500 and 1504..
by gunther01
Sat Oct 28, 2023 1:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?
Replies: 10
Views: 1349

Re: What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?

I have of course removed some names and IP's /interface bridge add comment=ROUTER-ID mtu=1500 name=LOOPBACK add disabled=yes name=bridge1 /interface ethernet set [ find default-name=sfpplus1 ] auto-negotiation=no comment=\ "TRUNK TO CORE SWITCH (PORT9)" /interface vlan add comment="To...
by gunther01
Fri Oct 27, 2023 4:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?
Replies: 10
Views: 1349

Re: What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?

I'm not aware of fasttrack messing with individual packets. But it does mess with certain firewall features. One of them is mangling. That's just it. There are zero firewall, nat, mangle, rules on this router at all. All it does is PPPoE, and route packets. With that said, there are automatically g...
by gunther01
Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?
Replies: 10
Views: 1349

Re: What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?

Is there a bug with Fast track somewhere that breaks packets.. Any other info would be great (links, etc..) This has had me messed up for weeks.

Turning off Fast track DID solve this issue.. So, WTH LOL...
by gunther01
Fri Oct 27, 2023 4:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?
Replies: 10
Views: 1349

What happens internally on router when packet sniffer is enabled?

We have an MPLS/VPLS network. This particular segment is a V7 RC2 2004, to a 1016 V6.49.8 box. That in turn bridges in to a 1016 Access concentrator over vlans which is another 1016 with V6 on it. We have a very strange issue where this new segment won't load cpe radio web pages. We can ping those c...
by gunther01
Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:45 pm
Forum: Forwarding Protocols
Topic: VPLS fragment reassembly bug only on TILE-arch
Replies: 10
Views: 5150

Re: VPLS fragment reassembly bug only on TILE-arch

Any idea if this has been fixed? I seem to have a strange issue between a Tile PE and a new V7 vpls set up that leads me to an issue like this (strange slowdowns, web pages not completing, etc)
by gunther01
Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:27 pm
Forum: RouterOS beta
Topic: Feedback on RouterOSv7 route filtering
Replies: 28
Views: 13774

Re: Feedback on RouterOSv7 route filtering

Just another "V7 and the filter string syntax is difficult at best to understand and use". Try and at least make a basic Winbox GUI format that we can parse through. Learning "code" and syntax is a pain in the arse. You need to at least update your examples to include MANY MANY m...
by gunther01
Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:54 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.44.5 [long-term] is released!
Replies: 100
Views: 85240

Re: v6.44.5 [long-term] is released!

44.5 caused Mipse and CCR's to port flap.. I'm not sure why, but when we go to 44.3 it stops.. Going to 445 or above, including the latest BETA crashed an entire leg of our network. Ports were flapping that had nothing plugged in to them, and some where BH's were and it would just flap OSPF constan...
by gunther01
Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:30 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.44.5 [long-term] is released!
Replies: 100
Views: 85240

Re: v6.44.5 [long-term] is released!

44.5 caused Mipse and CCR's to port flap.. I'm not sure why, but when we go to 44.3 it stops.. Going to 445 or above, including the latest BETA crashed an entire leg of our network. Ports were flapping that had nothing plugged in to them, and some where BH's were and it would just flap OSPF constan...
by gunther01
Sun Jul 21, 2019 12:19 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.44.5 [long-term] is released!
Replies: 100
Views: 85240

Re: v6.44.5 [long-term] is released!

44.5 caused Mipse and CCR's to port flap.. I'm not sure why, but when we go to 44.3 it stops.. Going to 445 or above, including the latest BETA crashed an entire leg of our network. Ports were flapping that had nothing plugged in to them, and some where BH's were and it would just flap OSPF constant...
by gunther01
Mon Mar 05, 2018 7:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Why doesn't watchdog turn off
Replies: 4
Views: 1952

Re: Why doesn't watchdog turn off

I use Winbox. Don't care what happens in CLI.
by gunther01
Mon Feb 26, 2018 7:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Why doesn't watchdog turn off
Replies: 4
Views: 1952

Why doesn't watchdog turn off

Do you think MT could make the watchdog turn off when I uncheck it and apply that change. It's sickening that something SO SIMPLE does not work properly when you turn it off. I should not have to change the IP address to something else for it to turn off. Otherwise remove the stupid check box that l...
by gunther01
Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:35 pm
Forum: Forwarding Protocols
Topic: MPLS routes not matching IP route
Replies: 6
Views: 2157

Re: MPLS routes not matching IP route

sent, will post if I get an answer. I'm assuming it's something I have done wrong. But, it's a pain, I know that much, and haven't been able to iron it out so far.
by gunther01
Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:15 pm
Forum: Forwarding Protocols
Topic: MPLS routes not matching IP route
Replies: 6
Views: 2157

Re: MPLS routes not matching IP route

It happens every single time the router reboots. And due to a watchdog and other issues on this segment for some reason that seems to happen every day or two. So, each time I have to enable and re-enable for MPLS to function properly. BIG Issue.
by gunther01
Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Ethernet ports on that don't have anything plugged in to them
Replies: 1
Views: 832

Ethernet ports on that don't have anything plugged in to them

Why does it seem like I'm getting this issue while after changing to 6.41? I now how two routers that are doing this in the past couple weeks after upgrading.

Are they just junk, or is the software doing something it shouldn't??
by gunther01
Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:07 pm
Forum: Forwarding Protocols
Topic: MPLS routes not matching IP route
Replies: 6
Views: 2157

Re: MPLS routes not matching IP route

So does this not happen to any one else, or do you just not realize that it is happening?
For the life of me I can't figure out why MPLS routes become different than the same routers IP route list after that router reboots. I have to stop and start MPLS for the MPLS table to get corrected....
by gunther01
Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Router with ports not working all of a sudden
Replies: 2
Views: 3005

Router with ports not working all of a sudden

1009 router, 6.41, with at least a couple ports stopped working after a reboot. Needed another reboot to get half of the ports working... Seems related to my other post about ports showing as down when they aren't. Ports still down, and are showing up.

This is a different router than my other post(s)
by gunther01
Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:47 pm
Forum: Forwarding Protocols
Topic: MPLS routes not matching IP route
Replies: 6
Views: 2157

MPLS routes not matching IP route

Trying to figure out why this happens after this router reboots. Routes stay proper (it seems) the rest of the time. I have to disable and re-enable MPLS for the routes to "sync" with the IP route/OSPF table in the router to get it back to normal. This is on a 1009 with 6.41 on it
by gunther01
Sat Sep 23, 2017 10:24 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Multicast-helper=full
Replies: 7
Views: 17827

Re: Multicast-helper=full

Pretty sure i added that package. Either way i bricked it after an update to the latest rc. No links lights now. Its in the garbage can.
by gunther01
Fri Sep 22, 2017 11:38 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Multicast-helper=full
Replies: 7
Views: 17827

Re: Multicast-helper=full

Where is multicast helper located?
I purchased a hap to use as a customer cpe for multicast specifically, and can't find the helper under advanced wireless any where...
I even tried to update it to whatever teh current latest build is, and that bricked the unit. So now I'm really out of luck.
by gunther01
Mon Sep 04, 2017 12:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade
Replies: 17
Views: 12147

Re: PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade

What is the MTU/MRU/MRRU configuration on router? What exact rules did you add to make it work again? What should be on client side and ppooe_servers? 1480/1480/1600 are these correct ? Have you tried to sniff packets on another device behind this router to see MSS when Mangle rules are not there a...
by gunther01
Sat Sep 02, 2017 7:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade
Replies: 17
Views: 12147

Re: PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade

Are you running 6.40.x version? If you enable change-tcp-mss on PPP/Profile and get rid of these Mangle rules does it work properly? Starting from 6.39 we have this: !) ppp - implemented internal algorithm for "change-mss", no mangle rules necessary; Later versions had more improvements a...
by gunther01
Tue Aug 29, 2017 4:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade
Replies: 17
Views: 12147

Re: PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade

Yes we are on 6.40. The problem is when I updated a handful of routers, my customers stopped working. MT should have "change mss" to "ON" by default in later versions so that this doesn't happen to people upon an update. Manual intervention after an update to fix a problem i didn...
by gunther01
Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade
Replies: 17
Views: 12147

Re: PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade

So. If you build a PPPoE concentrator in a lower version, we used all of the defaults from that. So change mss is set to "default", and not explicitly set to "yes". I added these to get my PPPoE customer to work properly again. /ip firewall mangle> print Flags: X - disabled, I - ...
by gunther01
Sat Aug 19, 2017 2:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade
Replies: 17
Views: 12147

PPPoE MSS clamp no working on upgrade

This is probably an old issue, as we were many versions behind in our network. I have recently updated a few MT routers to 40.1. In the process of updating them my PPPoE clients stopped working properly. Some websites would load while others would not etc.. Upon investigation, the rule that original...
by gunther01
Sat Nov 01, 2014 6:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Contrack won't turn off in 6.19
Replies: 1
Views: 980

Re: Contrack won't turn off in 6.19

Update: The monitoring issue isn't related. That was an unknown configuration error that just happened to pop up at the same time. I would still like to know why contrack won't turn off. We do use PPPoE on this router, and I understand the mangle rules are there for that. Is this the reason why prob...
by gunther01
Sat Nov 01, 2014 6:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Contrack won't turn off in 6.19
Replies: 1
Views: 980

Contrack won't turn off in 6.19

I have contrack disabled, or set to no, but it is still tracking multiple connections that are not going to or from the router. And also don't have anything to do with PPPoE on this head end MT. This in turn is holding on to connections that should be closing I believe and messing up some of our mon...
by gunther01
Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:16 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: UNII-2, Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That
Replies: 53
Views: 15581

Re: UNII-2, Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That

Bump for MT response
by gunther01
Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:50 am
Forum: General
Topic: Trying to set up PCQ
Replies: 11
Views: 3488

Re: Trying to set up PCQ

Does Masquerade happen in DST-NAT then? I don't see how packets are being marked using the Private Src-Natted IP's using forward then. As it shows, and looks pretty clear the Src-NAT is after forward. I'm getting tired I know, so I'd better leave this alone for the night. I just can't quite follow t...
by gunther01
Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: Trying to set up PCQ
Replies: 11
Views: 3488

Re: Trying to set up PCQ

I follow your example, and I think I am getting a grasp on how the packet flows work.. Am I correct to assume then, that the packet flow diagram stays stationary in the flow? You would just move the in and out interface accordingly to "show" the flow? So in the case of an outbound packet f...
by gunther01
Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:10 am
Forum: General
Topic: Trying to set up PCQ
Replies: 11
Views: 3488

Re: Trying to set up PCQ

I can follow your first post. The only thing I am asking is if you have multiple Mangles. One for upload the other for download??
The QOS video claims you don't need to do that with Mangle, but maybe you do using NAT.
by gunther01
Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: Trying to set up PCQ
Replies: 11
Views: 3488

Re: Trying to set up PCQ

That's useless information without a network diagram (what does ether8 connect to? It would be beneficial so see a diagram showing all interfaces of the router, what they connect to, and what their addressing is) and the address lists (do they contain private or public IPs?). By now you are asking ...
by gunther01
Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: Trying to set up PCQ
Replies: 11
Views: 3488

Re: Trying to set up PCQ

Thank you Fewi, I think this is where I got really lost LOL.. But if I am reading this correctly you have two sets of mangles (or recommend that). One for download, and one for upload?? I think, and it's a big think my downloads are being regulated (they seem to be) but it's spuratic as all get out ...
by gunther01
Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:57 am
Forum: General
Topic: Trying to set up PCQ
Replies: 11
Views: 3488

Re: Trying to set up PCQ

What, no body knows how to do this?? It's not like I asked which or what script do I enter in my mangle rules, or how to set up PCQ classifiers.. The one area that is NOT clear in the QOS video and PDF is what is what while using NAT. It's a quick 20 second blurb on the video with no real reference ...
by gunther01
Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Trying to set up PCQ
Replies: 11
Views: 3488

Trying to set up PCQ

I have this working I believe now.. But I am not totally convinced it is correct. My head end router is running v4.11. It does NAT, 1:1, some firewall rules, and PCQ for our network. I would like to make sure I have the proper interfaces and settings for the PCQ if someone is willing to verify. I ha...
by gunther01
Mon Aug 09, 2010 4:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

Entirely routed with Statics on the customer CPE. We already have a fixed high limit on each customer based on the plan they purchase.

I will sit down over the week, maybe tomorrow night and work up my plan to see if it works
by gunther01
Sun Aug 08, 2010 11:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

My largest goal is to slow down the "hogs" so that my normal customers won't have such a hard time. The plan is to do this with Priorities and slowing down those "hogs" individually, allowing others to use normal/higher priority and normal max speeds. This coupled with standard l...
by gunther01
Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

Scalability is a concern. But if I can work this the way I would like to, you could have the same code at each border router. It is (or I think it should be) a border router, to manage the "total" bandwidth going from/to your clients. If we can prioritize traffic via individual client mana...
by gunther01
Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:25 am
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

I'l be in touch mps01k.. It's been a long weekend so far. I will add, since I am here, that MT is almost based intirely on "free" subsets.. There is nothing wrong with handing out answers or methods to make certain things work. I have no reason to try and "charge" for my code.. I...
by gunther01
Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

Adrian, I just got home from my busy day of 18 hours of a full time job and "trying" to get out and do something for myself. Only to find your on here bashing me and my "challenge". I am full aware of what it will take to get this done, and YES I was on here asking the community ...
by gunther01
Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

I did have some time after reading all those forums to find a solution. I think I may be on to something, but I have to finalize it and test it. I'm a pretty busy person, so hopfully I can get to it this weekend. Anyone interested in checking code or theory can send me a PM. Adrian pretty well ruine...
by gunther01
Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:16 am
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

Now your not making a whole lot of sense. But it's not, nor was, relevant to my "challenge"

Thanks
by gunther01
Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

No you did not give me a "demo"... your above requirements clearly show time based. But regardless, I doesn't help other then it can be done. I will figure out a way, AND post it. There are many examples of others systems. Maybe I can spin some of their designs into what I hope to get. Tha...
by gunther01
Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:54 am
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)


When I find that link maybe I'll try put it here.
Jorj, Thank you. I will continue to STF as well. Please do post if you find it.
by gunther01
Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

Re: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

(No. VX isn't Free or Open Source. It would cost you 50% of your subscriptions and be a bargain at that) I don't think you did do "exactly" what I challenged. Your VX seems to reduce by a fixed amount, after a certain time frame. I am hopefull to find a way to dynamically deprioritize a c...
by gunther01
Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)
Replies: 52
Views: 13794

CHALLENGE!! (Create a dynamic QOS that deprioritizes)

So this is probably the most sought after "code" in this and other bandwidth management communities. But I'd like to see it done, and actually be usable for the community. A QOS that will keep track of your customers usage long enough to deprioritize/slow them in comparison to others and y...