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by steen
Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RouterOS 7.5 where is UPS?
Replies: 5
Views: 1108

Re: RouterOS 7.5 where is UPS?

Looks like I could have made this posting ... I tried to get the USB port of my CCR1009 to regognize the APCUPS. No luck, nothing on USB, not even the WOOBM stick from MT itself Running 7.5, nothing in logs, nothing on USB anyone got this working ? (RPi3 works fine with same cables) I have exactly ...
by steen
Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RouterOS 7.5 where is UPS?
Replies: 5
Views: 1108

RouterOS 7.5 where is UPS?

Hello folks! We recently upgraded several devices to RouterOS 7.5 from 6.x. We had several APCUPS:es using USB connected. Where is UPS, am I missing something ? I can not find UPS settings, we no longer have our UPS:es monitored ad devices using RouterOS 7.5. Thank you in advance! I anser myself, it...
by steen
Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ros 7.5 ssh to ros 6.49.6 on same lan timeout
Replies: 0
Views: 334

ros 7.5 ssh to ros 6.49.6 on same lan timeout

Hello Folks! I upgraded ros 6.49.6 to ros 7.5 on one router the other day, now ssh between routers with ros 7.5 and ros 6.49.6 in same lan results in timeout. Ping (icmp) works between them, arp tables are updated, but ssh and neither snmp works. Torching ether2 results you see traffic but that is a...
by steen
Sun May 08, 2022 11:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: first L2TP UDP package received from
Replies: 4
Views: 11958

Re: first L2TP UDP package received from

Hello Folks! This problem remains even with latest stable ros v6 at time of writing. This time we tested using a centos 8.5 linux latest version at time of writing, here using xl2tpd and ppp to establish the l2tp link. The mikrotik routers in other end is CHR. There is no NAT or nothing like that be...
by steen
Fri Nov 19, 2021 9:33 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.49.1 [stable] is released!
Replies: 138
Views: 80143

Re: v6.49.1 [stable] is released!

Hello Folks!

A warning!
The Dude packages was disabled and databases fully lost the dude setup was factory resetted.

This happened upgrading two CHR with running the dude installations hosted on KVM.
RoS 6.49 -> 6.49.1

Had to restore database from backup to get them up on track again.
by steen
Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: first L2TP UDP package received from
Replies: 4
Views: 11958

first L2TP UDP package received from

Hello Folks! I have a problem which has been ongoing for little more than a year regarding lt2p vpn tunnels. RoS is a couples of 6.48.3 CHR in one end and various physical mikrotik routers in the other end also running 6.48.3. At random classic L2TP VPN (no IPsec) tunnels goes down and logs start fi...
by steen
Sat Feb 22, 2020 12:36 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Mikrotik WISPs: Where?
Replies: 94
Views: 155797

Re: Mikrotik WISPs: Where?

Hello Folks!

We are MT wisp since 2006, two small cities in south Sweden.
All kinds of MT devices, from RB333/RB411->RB800, SXT/Sextant to Dynadishes, CRS switches and CCR as core routers. Some cisco asa5520 for road warrior and ubiquity for many home installations.
by steen
Sun May 19, 2019 7:04 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ARM devices and NV2 protocol
Replies: 622
Views: 162036

Re: ARM devices and NV2 protocol

Now time for fix 40 MHz channel in this moment max speed only 150 Mbit for TCP :( + 1 Tried to use 40MHz instead of 20MHz using nv2 many years ago on a link that was up for nearly 7 years. It was rock solid but it did not become faster than 20MHz, in fact no differences at all. Flat out speed was a...
by steen
Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:35 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Capsman question
Replies: 2
Views: 1140

Re: Capsman question

Yes cAPs do support redundant setups. Simply configure a second CAPsMAN exactly as the primary then in your cAPs, add the IP or name of the redundant CAPsMAN under the primary. Any changes to primary CAPsMAN have to be manually duplicated in redundant CAPsMAN.
Big thanks for that!
by steen
Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:07 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Capsman question
Replies: 2
Views: 1140

Capsman question

Hello Folks! We have been using capsman for some time, and yes it is working. But we have had some problems when capsman server is down and the wireless network become useless afterward, we had to power off all the capsman client ap:s and then power off the capsman server, wait some minutes, start t...
by steen
Sun Dec 16, 2018 2:22 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Serious WiFi and NV2 issues with RoS > 6.41.x
Replies: 3
Views: 2151

Re: Serious WiFi and NV2 issues with RoS > 6.41.x

Looked little more on this. To simplify for myself and maybe someone else. Mikrotik devices with CPU clock speed 300MHz is affected, attempt to use wireless ends up in useless device, net install is only way to get back to stable RoS version, that's say max RoS6.41.3. Potentially devices with CPU cl...
by steen
Sun Dec 16, 2018 11:29 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Dynadish problems, always
Replies: 3
Views: 1389

Re: Dynadish problems, always

It was updated router to latest boot for the version it had. Routerboot is not latest version at moment due to the device disappeared from network at reboot after upgrade. Have to wait till customer discovers it is down and perform a power cycle, then I can upgrade to latest router boot. Unfortunate...
by steen
Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:13 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues
Replies: 8
Views: 3070

Re: Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues

We still have problem with Dynadish 5, it is not possible to reboot them from within RouterOS without unplugging power and plug it back again. I thinking about to return the device to vendor asking for new. I ave two other dynadish who have not shown this error so it is kind of strange, I suspect hw...
by steen
Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:57 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Dynadish problems, always
Replies: 3
Views: 1389

Dynadish problems, always

Hello Folks! What is the problem with Dynadish ? We face problems with dynadish, always when trying to reboot from remote or in situation where you upgrade firmware and a reboot follows, the device does never come back on the network. It is always required a full power off and on again to make the d...
by steen
Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:34 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.10 [long-term] is released!
Replies: 25
Views: 27398

Re: v6.42.10 [long-term] is released!

Hello Folks! Worked like a charm! Thanks to that we are back patching again, at least for devices with clock speeds 300MHz+, those older devices has issues with 6.41.3+ versions. There are still issues with low capacity in WiFi compared to other brands, but it is rock solid at our sites, below 80-10...
by steen
Tue Dec 11, 2018 12:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

Re: CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports

I am confused about the internet access port / vlan 112 part. Usually you will tag traffic going out, not coming in. Can you elaborate a bit more what you are trying to achieve here, maybe confirm with the service provider how you are suppose to access internet services? I will try :-) I want ether...
by steen
Mon Dec 10, 2018 3:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

Re: CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports

Is internet provided as a layer 2 or layer 3 service? Currently you have it configured as layer 2. Maybe add a diagram so we an clearly see how things are connected Just to confirm, are you sure the CCR1009 has a switch chip, it is my understanding that only fairly old CCR1009's have switch chips I...
by steen
Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Active backup, bonding with vlans ?
Replies: 2
Views: 1681

Re: Active backup, bonding with vlans ?

Hello Folks!

I have now tested active backup bonding with vlans, works perfect.
A vlan trunk with at least 10 vlans operates perfect, if the active interface fails, the active backup takes over within seconds during heavy load.
by steen
Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

Re: CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports

What happens if you dont connect the public IP (WANIP) to the bridge.
Its not on my bridge and my setup works great with many vlans.
Probably because I am using routerOS and not some switch specific OS??
I tried that to, no traffic comes in/out from ether2.
by steen
Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

Re: CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports

Just stating the obvious: the <public-ip-address> in line
/ip address
add address=<public-ip-addess> interface=pub1
surely includes subnet mask?
Yes.
by steen
Sun Dec 09, 2018 12:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

CCR1009-8 switch chip vlan & access ports

Hello Folks! This is about CCR1009-8 with the switch chip. The CCR is used as primary router between various vlans and is also default gw for some of them. I wanted to use the builtin switch chip, having ether1 and ether4 as vlan trunks going to one each CRS125. ether2 I connect to incoming internet...
by steen
Sat Dec 08, 2018 3:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config
Replies: 10
Views: 2467

Re: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config

Hello Folks! The lab test show that it is working with one hint. The hint is, the lab setup did have other ethernet ports, ether1 though ether4 and some other vlans and ip addresses, otherwise the lab setup was exactly as above. The device used was CCR1009 which has a builtin switch chip that is con...
by steen
Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?
Replies: 10
Views: 2935

Re: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?

Hello Folks! I successfully stepwise upgraded first LAB CRS to latest long-term RoS 6.42.10. I had prepared a script in advance with the new settings, but I never had to use it. Step 1 RoS 6.37.5 -> RoS 6.40.9 OK Step 2 RoS 6.40.9 -> RoS 6.42.10 OK In Step 1 we lost the builtin p2p support, no visi...
by steen
Fri Dec 07, 2018 10:16 am
Forum: General
Topic: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?
Replies: 10
Views: 2935

Re: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?

Hello Folks! I successfully stepwise upgraded first LAB CRS to latest long-term RoS 6.42.10. I had prepared a script in advance with the new settings, but I never had to use it. Step 1 RoS 6.37.5 -> RoS 6.40.9 OK Step 2 RoS 6.40.9 -> RoS 6.42.10 OK In Step 1 we lost the builtin p2p support, no visi...
by steen
Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Active backup, bonding with vlans ?
Replies: 2
Views: 1681

Active backup, bonding with vlans ?

Hello Folks! I have a router that sits a bit bad between two CRS switches with a lot of end user devices have it as default gateway and other that is not capable of multiple default gateways, ospf, rip etc. pure end user devices. The CRS switches is not capable doing MRSTP in the chip, they are to o...
by steen
Sun Dec 02, 2018 8:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?
Replies: 10
Views: 2935

Re: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?

Hello Folks! I successfully stepwise upgraded first LAB CRS to latest long-term RoS 6.42.10. I had prepared a script in advance with the new settings, but I never had to use it. Step 1 RoS 6.37.5 -> RoS 6.40.9 OK Step 2 RoS 6.40.9 -> RoS 6.42.10 OK In Step 1 we lost the builtin p2p support, no visib...
by steen
Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:03 am
Forum: General
Topic: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config
Replies: 10
Views: 2467

Re: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config

Correct me if I am wrong, here comes the complete code snippet for the switched variants, for higher RoS versions. # CCR vlans /interface bridge add name=bridge1 protocol-mode=none # /interface bridge port add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether5 hw=yes add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether6 hw=yes add brid...
by steen
Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:00 am
Forum: General
Topic: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config
Replies: 10
Views: 2467

Re: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config

At quick glance I can spot only one error: . /interface ethernet switch vlan add ports= switch1-cpu, ether5 switch=switch1 vlan-id=131 . In order to "pull" VLAN from switch chip to router's CPU (read: bridge1), switch1-cpu "port" has to be member of said VLAN. And I assume that ...
by steen
Sat Dec 01, 2018 8:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config
Replies: 10
Views: 2467

Re: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config

At quick glance I can spot only one error: . /interface ethernet switch vlan add ports= switch1-cpu, ether5 switch=switch1 vlan-id=131 . In order to "pull" VLAN from switch chip to router's CPU (read: bridge1), switch1-cpu "port" has to be member of said VLAN. And I assume that ...
by steen
Thu Nov 29, 2018 9:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config
Replies: 10
Views: 2467

Re: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config

Hi Folks! I have not yet tested the bridge only configuration but will soon do, I am pretty sure it will work. But if I then later upgrade the CCR to post 6.41(removing the bridge only configuration first), to achieve the same as above but instead using the integrated CCR switch chip, would the conf...
by steen
Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config
Replies: 10
Views: 2467

Re: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config

One possibility, though most probably not optimal, would be to create vlan interfaces on top of all involved ether interfaces and bridge vlans together. Something like this: /interface vlan add interface=ether5 name=e5v100 vlan-id=100 add interface=ether5 name=e5v131 vlan-id=131 add interface=ether...
by steen
Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config
Replies: 10
Views: 2467

VLAN in pre 6.39 "Bridge Only" config

Hello Folks! For various reasons I can currently not upgrade so I am stuck to older RoS versions, pre 6.39. The scenario is very simple, 4 gigabit ethernet trunklines attached to one CCR who is in the middle so to say, a kind of star. I want to have the CCR being able to pass traffic between the att...
by steen
Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:11 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Serious WiFi and NV2 issues with RoS > 6.41.x
Replies: 3
Views: 2151

Re: Serious WiFi and NV2 issues with RoS > 6.41.x

Hello Folks! Some time has passed by, here is some update. What we found out by empirical tests is that devices which has max CPU clock 300MHz is all affected by the wifi problems. My vendor says watch out for the C variants of RB4XX, C=CPE I guess and older not so fast devices. Devices which has ma...
by steen
Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:22 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?
Replies: 6
Views: 2092

Re: Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?

Hello Folks1

The RB411 board was replaced with DynaDish and customer is happy again.

It was the capacitors, they have leaked some brown stuff bin the tops which also was expanded a bit.
Replacing the capacitors and the device works perfectly again.
by steen
Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:36 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Significant improvement for wireless Nv2 PtMP
Replies: 245
Views: 114240

Re: Significant improvement for wireless Nv2 PtMP

the try out series of about 20 possible hotfixes in the last 10 month for ARM NV2, shows only that it either does not work (hardware problem), or issue is not found. No matter, you can not satisfy a WISP with try an error, we rebuild cells and use the old cpe for customers in areas that we not Upgr...
by steen
Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:28 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ARM devices and NV2 protocol
Replies: 622
Views: 162036

Re: ARM devices and NV2 protocol

So for all comments in this post.It is 100% sure that 802.11 working well in arm wireless devices or not?
I got problem with all wireless protocols including 802.11, at least for RB411 (300MHz) variants and some older SXT devices.
by steen
Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:36 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?
Replies: 6
Views: 2092

Re: Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?

Problem with capacitors: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=75405&hilit=rb411+capacitors Thanks! Good hint! I will do that check whilst on site. We have had if before, but at that time the devices were fully down. Bad capacitors can well cause this. I downgraded even further to ...
by steen
Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:56 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?
Replies: 6
Views: 2092

Re: Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?

Hello Folks! Update, the downgrade did not help, after some time the device started to reboot itself again. It is either some problem with the ubiquity device providing power to the device, problems with the device itself caused by rb411 internal hardware or still to high RoS versions for the device...
by steen
Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:40 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?
Replies: 6
Views: 2092

Re: Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?

Thanks! It is powered by ubiquity UBI-US-8-150W which also powers 3 ubiquity unify access points, all of them are working perfectly and there is nothing in the logs indicating power problems, simply link down, link up when the RB411 restarts. Update, I managed to get lates stable at the era, RoS6.0....
by steen
Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:10 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?
Replies: 6
Views: 2092

Old device RB411 reboots, hw problems ?

Hello Folks! I have one old RB411 sitting at one customers for years without any issues, suddenly yesterday the device start to reboot in random intervals 3-2 minutes - 90 minutes. The device uses RoS6.41.3, the last known working with wireless and NV2, ptmp environment. I tried to upload bug fix on...
by steen
Sat Oct 27, 2018 1:19 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ARM devices and NV2 protocol
Replies: 622
Views: 162036

Re: ARM devices and NV2 protocol

null, removed posted in wrong thread
by steen
Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:15 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ARM devices and NV2 protocol
Replies: 622
Views: 162036

Re: ARM devices and NV2 protocol

Hello Folks! First please mikrotik fix so older devices work or make a branch for older devices and freeze it or what ever suites you best. As it is for now, we have stopped upgrading all wireless devices at Ros6.41.3. Any attempt upgrading higher than RoS6.41.3 for wireless devices ends up in netin...
by steen
Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:59 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.43 [current] is released!
Replies: 147
Views: 70441

Re: v6.43 [current] is released!

Hello Folks! This is a humble question, someone might have tested this ros version with wifi and nv2 on older mipsbe (ARM) devices like RB411, RB433, RB800 etc. and SXT, SEXTANT, QRT5 ? Is this wifi problem fixed yet in this version ? Version greater than 6.41.3 fully fails with wifi and nv2 hand ha...
by steen
Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:51 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ARM devices and NV2 protocol
Replies: 622
Views: 162036

Re: ARM devices and NV2 protocol

Hello Folks! I see a lot of discussions in this thread now. Has microtic corrected their routers now so older devices work with wireless again, so called arm devices, e.g. mipsbe devices like rb411, sxt, sextant etc. ? We have very many such still in production ptmp 5GHz band using no higher than 6....
by steen
Mon Aug 27, 2018 1:10 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ARM devices and NV2 protocol
Replies: 622
Views: 162036

Re: ARM devices and NV2 protocol

For the other Questions.......
- wait for ARM fix
- wait for spectral scan
- wait for ROS 7

or change Brand......
We pationally wait! :-), but as with everything one can not wait forever, currently we have very few customers affected, maybe 2-3.
by steen
Sun Jul 22, 2018 3:53 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: 802.11 versus NV2 and 6.42.6
Replies: 2
Views: 3422

Re: 802.11 versus NV2 and 6.42.6

Hello ! First big thanks taking the time sharing this knowledge! We will follow up with a test in our environment to see if 802.11 will work in our environment, which for the past 6-7 years has been using nv2. Back in that time we used nstreme and before that 802.11 (Cisco devices), both struggled w...
by steen
Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:32 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.6 [current]
Replies: 102
Views: 63658

Re: v6.42.6 [current]

802.11 suffers from hidden node problems, network stalls, at least if trying it in some distribution network. Here counts nv2, and in old days nstreme. We have around 100Mbit/s P2MP using "modern devices" and current firmware and in legacy device environment (RN52 radio boards) we have 20...
by steen
Fri Jul 20, 2018 1:13 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.6 [current]
Replies: 102
Views: 63658

Re: v6.42.6 [current]

We have updates some 8 AP's with anything between 8 and 30 Mikrotik CPE's connected, either a full 'ac' P2MP network or still'n'. In all networks the 802.11 mode outperforms NV2 a lot! Overal througput on the AP is some 50 to 100% better and individual clients get much more speed. One P2MP network ...
by steen
Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:07 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ARM devices and NV2 protocol
Replies: 622
Views: 162036

Re: ARM devices and NV2 protocol

The issue above only affects AC (or ARM / AC ?) devices I think. It affects ARM Based AC devices, MISPBE Devices are legacy now, you can only buy residues We have a lot of MIPSBE devices in production for the past ten years, cycling them out is in progress but it will take long time, we replace onl...
by steen
Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:55 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ARM devices and NV2 protocol
Replies: 622
Views: 162036

Re: ARM devices and NV2 protocol

Hello Normis! When will the fix come to "current" ? It is not affecting only AC. It affects also 802.11abgn And NV2, using 20MHz bandwidth with classic RN52 wifi boards in RB411 which is so common in our links here... Network links simply stalls after little traffic and the devices becomes...
by steen
Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:17 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ARM devices and NV2 protocol
Replies: 622
Views: 162036

Re: ARM devices and NV2 protocol

Hello Folks! Any solutions yet ? We could not upgrade higher than RoS6.41.3, except for wired devices like routers and switches, all versions after simply renders 802.11 and NV2 to useless, nstreme is not tested. We have a lot of SXT, SEXTANT, RB411 plus some other variants and lately also QRT-5, Dy...
by steen
Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:35 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Serious WiFi and NV2 issues with RoS > 6.41.x
Replies: 3
Views: 2151

Serious WiFi and NV2 issues with RoS > 6.41.x

Hello Folks! I am sorry for a relatively long add here, and not to structured either.. but I am searching for help. I have seen some discussions around ARM based wifi/nv2 devices and RoS 6.42.X here in forum. I would be very happy to get listed all the affected device models so we have something to ...
by steen
Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:23 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.5 [current]
Replies: 124
Views: 53751

Re: v6.42.5 [current]

is it only me, or wireless performance on 6.42.5 is really bad ? (RouterBOARD 962UiGS-5HacT2HnT) Is ANI enabled? /interface wireless set adaptive-noise-immunity=ap-and-client-mode wlan2 /interface wireless set adaptive-noise-immunity=ap-and-client-mode wlan1 Nice info @anuser!Now my wifi speed is m...
by steen
Wed Jul 04, 2018 10:25 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: PowerBox Pro, 60C+ in the sun..
Replies: 0
Views: 878

PowerBox Pro, 60C+ in the sun..

Hello Folks! Some days ago we installed PowerBox Pro in one of our masts. It serves one SXT (124mA, 24.3V, 3.5W) and one RB435G (270mA, 24.3V, 6.5W). When the sun shines on the PowerBox Pro temperature raises up to 60C and more. Specifications say: Tested ambient temperature -40°C .. +70°C I start t...
by steen
Tue Jul 03, 2018 6:56 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: CAPsMAN2 auto selecting frequency
Replies: 1
Views: 1679

Re: CAPsMAN2 auto selecting frequency

Hello Folks! I answer myself till some extent. Reading further I saw some mt users removing the frequency settings (greying it out) that claims the access points now automatically set frequencies. So I did, and indeed it worked. I kept all nitty gritty tuning parameters for wifi and simply greyed ou...
by steen
Tue Jul 03, 2018 9:06 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: CAPsMAN2 auto selecting frequency
Replies: 1
Views: 1679

CAPsMAN2 auto selecting frequency

Hello Folks! I did my first attempt to use capsman2 (RoS 6.41.3 due to RoS 6.42.X does not work in our environment) in an office landscape. Before we had manually configured access points (2GHZ B/G/N) and a frequency plan to minimize interference, it worked relatively well. Introducing capsman2 work...
by steen
Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:33 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.3 [current]
Replies: 80
Views: 47273

Re: v6.42.3 [current]

Hello Folks! Unfortunately the WIFI (802.11N in this case) problems remains in this version. Connecting to WiFI and Loading the router with some wifi traffic causes CPU go sky high 100% at all time, and traffic goes down from normal 20-30Mbit/s to 0.5Mbit/s and starts to interrupt all the time. Ult...
by steen
Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:58 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.3 [current]
Replies: 80
Views: 47273

Re: v6.42.3 [current]

Hello Folks! Unfortunately the WIFI (802.11N in this case) problems remains in this version. Connecting to WiFI and Loading the router with some wifi traffic causes CPU go sky high 100% at all time, and traffic goes down from normal 20-30Mbit/s to 0.5Mbit/s and starts to interrupt all the time. Ult...
by steen
Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:02 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.3 [current]
Replies: 80
Views: 47273

Re: v6.42.3 [current]

Hello Folks! Unfortunately the WIFI (802.11N in this case) problems remains in this version. Connecting to WiFI and Loading the router with some wifi traffic causes CPU go sky high 100% at all time, and traffic goes down from normal 20-30Mbit/s to 0.5Mbit/s and starts to interrupt all the time. Ulti...
by steen
Mon May 28, 2018 12:31 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where to dude syslog go ?
Replies: 4
Views: 3829

Re: Where to dude syslog go ?

Mikrotik did bad change. They removed the separate dude syslog files and use devices log instead... Very bad and silly... Hope logging comes back, we could not yet decomiss the old Dude running on server 2008. The other day I saw a new "issue" with the new dude, it has glitches... glitche...
by steen
Mon May 28, 2018 12:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?
Replies: 10
Views: 2935

Re: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?

I would upgrade to 6.40.8 (latest bugfix) before upgrading to new bridge. You can always contact MT support and check from which version to new version is best. You have a better bet at upgrading from latest bugfix to latest current. At least my guess is so. As you current version contains some nas...
by steen
Sun May 27, 2018 11:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?
Replies: 10
Views: 2935

Re: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?

The upgrade made a mess of mine, but I knew it was going to as I had multiple bridges and VLANs. Make sure your console cable works before you start! And definitely do them off-line. Okey, then I have to make a solid migration plan, bringing out one device at a time. CRS console is the cisco style,...
by steen
Sun May 27, 2018 3:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?
Replies: 10
Views: 2935

Re: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?

I can't say anything about upgrade process on CRS125 as I don't have any. I did upgrade on RB951 which has switch chip as well and I had VLANs defined "in old way". The upgrade from 6.40 to 6.41 went smooth for me. I guess success depends on how device is configured and if it's configured...
by steen
Sun May 27, 2018 11:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?
Replies: 10
Views: 2935

CRS125 do I dare to upgrade from 6.37.4 to 6.41+ ?

Hello Folks! I saw that new features was added after ros v6.41. We have a bunch of CRS125 ros 6.37.4(bug fix only), used as VLAN switches with various trunk ports and access ports, using the CRS switch feature with the switch chip. The CRS:es has trunk ports to each other and to cisco switches as we...
by steen
Sun May 27, 2018 11:14 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues
Replies: 8
Views: 3070

Re: Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues

Hello Folks! We experience hardware stability issues with Dynadish 5. About 25% of the time after a normal routers update, the devices does not boot up and becomes available on the network. A full power cycle (unplugging power transformator and plug in again) has so far sorted out the problem, and ...
by steen
Mon May 07, 2018 10:42 am
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where to dude syslog go ?
Replies: 4
Views: 3829

Where to dude syslog go ?

Hello Folks!

Questions might seem dumb,
but where does the dude syslog go ?
Where do I set max log file size ?
Where can I set retention time ?
Where can I set max number of log files ?

Thank you in advance.
by steen
Mon May 07, 2018 9:47 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.1 [current]
Replies: 272
Views: 98192

Re: v6.42.1 [current]

Regarding message poping up when generating a backup file, same problem, same answer (netinstall) but I don't feel like it honestly... https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=73610&p=658544#p658544 We stopped rolling out 6.42.1 and the other with same problem 6.42, and rolled back by...
by steen
Sun May 06, 2018 4:47 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.1 [current]
Replies: 272
Views: 98192

Re: v6.42.1 [current]

And the incredibly wide ranging and completely unrelated issues just keep coming. Backup issues, weird wifi issues and a different sort of DHCP issue.. I can confirm the backup issue and the wifi issue. I updated a mAP and im not sure of everything that failed, but I know wifi was really weird beca...
by steen
Sun May 06, 2018 9:23 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.1 [current]
Replies: 272
Views: 98192

Re: v6.42.1 [current]

And the incredibly wide ranging and completely unrelated issues just keep coming. Backup issues, weird wifi issues and a different sort of DHCP issue.. I can confirm the backup issue and the wifi issue. I updated a mAP and im not sure of everything that failed, but I know wifi was really weird beca...
by steen
Sat May 05, 2018 10:38 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.1 [current]
Replies: 272
Views: 98192

Re: v6.42.1 [current]

Hello Folks! I have problem backing up configuration on practically all devices using ros 6.42 or bigger, just discovered it today. The message I got is: "backup,critical error creating backup file: could not read all configuration files" There is no full filesystems and other visible err...
by steen
Sat May 05, 2018 9:08 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.1 [current]
Replies: 272
Views: 98192

Re: v6.42.1 [current]

Hello Folks! I face another issue.... this time our wireless 802.11bgn office landscape is crippled. Wireless speed drops down to nothing and they got disconnected all the time. The various mikrotik devices CPU rushes up to 100% when wifi traffic starts to flow, and wifi speed drops to nothing. Ther...
by steen
Sat May 05, 2018 5:59 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues
Replies: 8
Views: 3070

Re: Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues

Could it bee possible that you are running out of space on nand? Ok checking disk space, surprised to discover the device only have total disk space 16.0MiB and about 5MiB free, it would not fit a new ros update file... Free HDD space: 4849Kib Total HDD space: 16.0 MiB 5 items 11.3MiB of 16.0 MiB u...
by steen
Sat May 05, 2018 9:52 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.1 [current]
Replies: 272
Views: 98192

Re: v6.42.1 [current]

Hello Folks! I have problem backing up configuration on practically all devices using ros 6.42 or bigger, just discovered it today. The message I got is: "backup,critical error creating backup file: could not read all configuration files" There is no full filesystems and other visible erro...
by steen
Fri May 04, 2018 8:55 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues
Replies: 8
Views: 3070

Re: Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues

about 20 of them in usage and don't seeing this there are two models of Dynadish Which one you are using? RBDynaDishG-5HacD or RBDynaDishG-5HacDr3 Hello ! We are using this model: RouterBOARD DynaDish G-5HacD r3 At least two of them that came up after a hard power cycle had lost all local copies of...
by steen
Thu May 03, 2018 2:32 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues
Replies: 8
Views: 3070

Dynadish 5, hardware stability issues

Hello Folks! We experience hardware stability issues with Dynadish 5. About 25% of the time after a normal routers update, the devices does not boot up and becomes available on the network. A full power cycle (unplugging power transformator and plug in again) has so far sorted out the problem, and w...
by steen
Tue May 01, 2018 10:44 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: CIsco ASA5510 snmp, no interfaces is shown.
Replies: 1
Views: 1561

Re: CIsco ASA5510 snmp, no interfaces is shown.

Hello Folks!

It is solved, by selecting snmp v.2, the dude default is snmp v1.

Now all ASA5510 devices and some system settings is discovered by snmp.
by steen
Tue May 01, 2018 8:34 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: The dude devices snmp does not recognize snmp -> interfaces,ip,routing,storage
Replies: 4
Views: 8118

Re: The dude devices snmp does not recognize snmp -> interfaces,ip,routing,storage

Hello Folks! I sorted it out and it was easy. The dude default is snmp v1, it seems to have problem discovering all devices and system properties, as written above. By setting snmp v2 on all the dude map devices that did not discover all devices and system properties with snmp v1 it started to work....
by steen
Tue May 01, 2018 2:34 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42.1 [current]
Replies: 272
Views: 98192

Re: v6.42.1 [current]

I have the dude problems, is this correct place for announcing this ? However the dude device box does not recognize snmp -> interface, snmp -> ip, snmp -> routing, snmp -> storage for Linux, and Cisco ASA devices. I have a parallel run with dude 3.x and the new 6.42.1 version, in old dude it works ...
by steen
Tue May 01, 2018 2:29 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: The dude devices snmp does not recognize snmp -> interfaces,ip,routing,storage
Replies: 4
Views: 8118

The dude devices snmp does not recognize snmp -> interfaces,ip,routing,storage

Is this correct place to put discovered problems with "the dude" ? There is a problem with the dude if you add a Linux (here Centos) or cisco device (here asa5510). I am having a parallel run with older dude (3.x, 4.x) and the new generation 6.x, where snmp has some issues. Dude 3.x, 4.x i...
by steen
Tue May 01, 2018 1:48 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Linux node SNMP:, IP, ROUTING, STORAGE not visible/missing
Replies: 0
Views: 1326

Linux node SNMP:, IP, ROUTING, STORAGE not visible/missing

Hello Folks! I face now a new little more serious problem with the dude. If I click on a Linux device and client on tab SNMP, the lists of IP ROUTING STORAGE is EMPTY. In services they are shown, and if I SNMP walk they are there and in the old dude environment using 3.x and 4.x they arrive as well....
by steen
Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:56 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: CIsco ASA5510 snmp, no interfaces is shown.
Replies: 1
Views: 1561

CIsco ASA5510 snmp, no interfaces is shown.

Hello Folks! We are migrating to active "the dude" now. We face a problem regarding SNMP and Cisco ASA5510 firewalls. The dude can not show any interfaces beneath snmp menu, and hence we can not monitor the interfaces. It is working in the old dude 3.x. I did not add any special mib:s for ...
by steen
Sat Apr 28, 2018 12:32 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Plotting gives only straight line...
Replies: 1
Views: 1583

Re: Plotting gives only straight line...

Hello Folks! I now managed temperature plotting and wifi signal plotting. All boiled down to creating a function that returns one value, namely a float or integer. Mine did return also C for Celsius and db, which is not a number. I created a function: Name: w_mipsbe_temperature Description: system t...
by steen
Sat Apr 21, 2018 2:26 am
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Plotting gives only straight line...
Replies: 1
Views: 1583

Plotting gives only straight line...

Hello Folks! I need to plot temperature so we can see how it varies, and put alerts on it to. The same goes for signal strength and quality. Neither work, only one straight line all the time. The worked OID returns nice numbers but it does not work anyway. I made functions that bring out the values ...
by steen
Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:59 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42 [current]
Replies: 147
Views: 76291

Re: v6.42 [current]

Hello Folks! I tried two devices, rb411, one worked and the other disappeared from network will visit it physically tomorrow trying to figure out what happened. The first device took unusual long time come back on network. Physical visit, unplugging and plugging back power worked, the device came b...
by steen
Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Hello Folks! Here is what is in the log, when this user have the vpn up. User windows 10 vpn client configuration yet unknown. I will connect my vpn tunnel to and see what I got, at least I had no errors at all in my vpn logs. But this poor user has. The only difference I am aware about is that this...
by steen
Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

ipsec,error no proposal chosen One windows 10 client causes this an the user also experience frequent kick outs and has to dissconnect and connect again. It is unclear at time of writing if the user has missed something in the settings. I have the same setup, with respekt to the other user might hav...
by steen
Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:18 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.42 [current]
Replies: 147
Views: 76291

Re: v6.42 [current]

Hello Folks!

I tried two devices, rb411, one worked and the other disappeared from network will visit it physically tomorrow trying to figure out what happened.
The first device took unusual long time come back on network.
by steen
Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

For some users I got lots of this in the log files: 19:28:27 ipsec,error no proposal chosen As far I know, the tunnel works for the user, at least he told me so, but what is this and can it harm in some way, and how can I fix it ? annoying to have in logs. That sounds dangerous, not just annoying, ...
by steen
Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Hello Folks! So far all seems to work, off course the clients find it difficult to get their vpn tunnels working properly compared to cisco vpn solution that just works. For some users I got lots of this in the log files: 19:28:27 ipsec,error no proposal chosen As far I know, the tunnel works for th...
by steen
Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Hello Again! Here comes some more. Indeed vpn tunnels on Windows 10 is a long story, Microsoft confess various bugs and so on, read their tech forums. Nowhere is a clear simple way getting it working. Here are some links for the one who likes to read more about it: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtop...
by steen
Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Big thanks for all of you having pation to engage you so much in my tedious VPN problems, this was worth much! Thanks for the powershell oneliner and all hints and tips, leading to something that works at least partly. Our developers will write some code, connected to AD and some vpn role, that will...
by steen
Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

The thread become long. The two firewall rules I first added but they did not make any difference so I disabled them during all tests here and there. /ip firewall filter ... add action=accept chain=forward disabled=yes dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 src-address=10.10.30.0/24 add action=accept chain=forward d...
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

No joy, neither is there any bytes or packages counted up. /ip firewall filter export , please. I have a suspicion. Here the firewall filter rules comes: /ip firewall filter add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list=port-scanners address-list-timeout=10m chain=input comment="Port scanner...
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

No joy, neither is there any bytes or packages counted up. /ip firewall filter export , please. I have a suspicion. Here the firewall filter rules comes: /ip firewall filter add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list=port-scanners address-list-timeout=10m chain=input comment="Port scanner...
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 6:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Still no joy, neither is there any bytes or packets on the forward chain rule or the nat rule.
Ok, so try to place that rule to chain prerouting of table mangle and check again.
No joy, neither is there any bytes or packages counted up.
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 4:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

[admin@MikroTik] > ip firewall nat print stats Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic # CHAIN ACTION 0 ;;; exception from src-nat for the proxy srcnat accept 1 ;;; vm1 IIS srcnat src-nat 2 ;;; vm1 IIS dstnat dst-nat 3 ;;; vm1 IIS dstnat dst-nat The most important columns (bytes, packets matc...
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 2:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

[admin@MikroTik] > ip firewall nat print stats Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic # CHAIN ACTION 0 ;;; exception from src-nat for the proxy srcnat accept 1 ;;; vm1 IIS srcnat src-nat 2 ;;; vm1 IIS dstnat dst-nat 3 ;;; vm1 IIS dstnat dst-nat The most important columns (bytes, packets matc...
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 2:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Okey, the reverse proxy (windows server) has mikrotik vpn server as its default gateway.IPv4 Route Table. =========================================================================== Active Routes: Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.1.129 172.16.1.130 276 10....
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

It did not work either... If Microsoft firewall is active on a device, it does not respond to pings. Can this be the reason? If not, let's try a brute force approach - choose some device and tell it that the Mikrotik acting as VPN server is its default gateway. It is a default installed microsoft s...
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Correct, all devices in subnet 172.16.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24, except the reverse proxy 172.16.1.130, routes all traffic to other mikrotik devices. Only 172.16.1.130 uses this mikrotik device as default gateway(172.16.1.129). In that case, do all the other devices have a route to 10.10.30.0/24 po...
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Correct, all devices in subnet 172.16.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24, except the reverse proxy 172.16.1.130, routes all traffic to other mikrotik devices. Only 172.16.1.130 uses this mikrotik device as default gateway(172.16.1.129). In that case, do all the other devices have a route to 10.10.30.0/24 po...
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Correct, all devices in subnet 172.16.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24, except the reverse proxy 172.16.1.130, routes all traffic to other mikrotik devices. Only 172.16.1.130 uses this mikrotik device as default gateway(172.16.1.129). In that case, do all the other devices have a route to 10.10.30.0/24 po...
by steen
Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

I worked before, and yes there have been some mikrotik updates since I did this in January/February 2018, but must have missed something, do anyone know what is missing ? Can you post the export of your /ip firewall nat rules? /ip firewall nat add action=src-nat chain=srcnat comment="vm1 IIS&q...
by steen
Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

Re: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

I worked before, and yes there have been some mikrotik updates since I did this in January/February 2018, but must have missed something, do anyone know what is missing ? Can you post the export of your /ip firewall nat rules? /ip firewall nat add action=src-nat chain=srcnat comment="vm1 IIS&q...
by steen
Sat Apr 07, 2018 6:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"
Replies: 37
Views: 11435

RoadWarrior IKEv2 Windows 10 OK but "no ping"

Hello Folks! I followed these two documents: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/IPsec#Road_Warrior_setup_using_IKEv2_with_RSA_authentication https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/IPsec#Windows_client_configuration We boiled them down to the following setup: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX = the public ip a...
by steen
Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:03 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Any chance to see NV3?
Replies: 24
Views: 5994

Re: Any chance to see NV3?

-30-20 dB of received signal is too much. The receiver surely has problems to disassembly the signal. Lower the tx rate to keep rx levels of all clients at AP receiver around -50 db. Oh, we have several clients with receiver signals over 75-80db, maybe they are saturated :-) I will lower the signal...
by steen
Fri Mar 16, 2018 12:22 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.41.3 [current]
Replies: 139
Views: 56994

Re: v6.41.3 [current]

Hello Folks! Upgrade successful on rb411, rb333, sxt, sextant, qrt5, rb711, crs. Sadly I lost all remote Dynadish devices, after upgrading they never got contact with the wireless base stations again. I have no ability to visit customers at this time, so I can not tell if there is any ethernet conn...
by steen
Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:53 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.41.3 [current]
Replies: 139
Views: 56994

Re: v6.41.3 [current]

Hello Folks! Upgrade successful on rb411, rb333, sxt, sextant, qrt5, rb711, crs. Sadly I lost all remote Dynadish devices, after upgrading they never got contact with the wireless base stations again. I have no ability to visit customers at this time, so I can not tell if there is any ethernet conne...
by steen
Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:33 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: NV2 sync issues and solutions
Replies: 91
Views: 18539

Re: NV2 sync issues and solutions

Hello Folks! Access point Radar detect in real life: 10:14:55 system,info device changed by admin <---- disable wlan1 10:14:57 system,info device changed by admin <---- enable wlan1 10:15:02 wireless,debug wlan1: must select channel 10:15:02 wireless,debug wlan1: selected channel 5320000 10:15:02 wi...
by steen
Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:43 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Any chance to see NV3?
Replies: 24
Views: 5994

Re: Any chance to see NV3?

Hello Folks! So far, we have very successfully using the classic R52 based devices, very stable since 2006/2007 till today but speeds to low compared with todays standards, max out 20-35Mbit/s in ptmp. All clients connected at 54Mbit/s all the time. Link quality is 95-100% all the time on all client...
by steen
Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:11 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Any chance to see NV3?
Replies: 24
Views: 5994

Re: Any chance to see NV3?

Hello Folks! We have been using first nstreme and now nv2 for many years, our experience nv2 is rock solid. Nstreme was abandoned due to signal delays were going up and down now and then. nv2 uses some kind of tdma to tackle the hidden node problem and to avoid some other problems as well. At least ...
by steen
Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: After ros upgrade ether1 stops working
Replies: 1
Views: 1091

After ros upgrade ether1 stops working

Hello Folks! After upgrading router os and firmware the ethernet port stopped responding. I have now two devices who got the same symtom, eventually tree. In all cases there is no sign of degradation or link drops/errors, they connect 100Mbit/s full duplex. Upgrading RoS to next version in number se...
by steen
Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:35 am
Forum: Virtualization
Topic: Hyper-V core 2016 some issues
Replies: 0
Views: 2924

Hyper-V core 2016 some issues

Hello Folks! We face some "issues" with CHR router os 6.41 running as guest on Hyper-V core 2016 with all latest patches on. Our hardware is HPDL380p G8. And the guest got 4 CPU:s and 256MB RAM, we tried also with 4GB more or less CPU:s. We used the vhdx image to boot on. In KVM/XEN we use...
by steen
Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:22 am
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Is the new dude production stable now ?
Replies: 7
Views: 3100

Re: Is the new dude production stable now ?

Hello Folks! The old dude has been running since 2007/2008 on Microsoft Server 2008 sp2 (started with sp1 I think or lower). There are some 20 maps and around 200 devices, a mixture of mikrotik devices, cisco firewalls and switches, linux servers and windows server and so on. It has been very stable...
by steen
Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:28 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Is the new dude production stable now ?
Replies: 7
Views: 3100

Is the new dude production stable now ?

Hi Folks! The old dude has been working since 2007 at our place, monitoring about everything, very satisfied. The new dude looks promising. But how is status on it now ? I have a humble question, some time ago (in March/April 2017) we tested the new dude in an CHR kvm instance, 20GB DISK, 4 CPU:s an...
by steen
Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP client looses IP address, telia open fiber
Replies: 4
Views: 2643

Re: DHCP client looses IP address, telia open fiber

Hello Folks! Again we face this dhcp client issue with telia, fails to renew IP address. Telia has 20 minute lease time what I can see and mikrotik router seems to try renew when it is about 10 minutes left lease time. I am having an open dialogue with Telia about it, they claim it is my device who ...
by steen
Wed Jan 18, 2017 9:46 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.37.4 [bugfix] is released!
Replies: 38
Views: 25935

Re: v6.37.4 [bugfix] is released!

Hello Folks!

Upgraded CRS, RB750, RB333 and RB411 so far no problems.
by steen
Sat Nov 26, 2016 8:38 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.36.4 [bugfix] is released!
Replies: 51
Views: 26612

Re: v6.36.4 [bugfix] is released!

Hello Folks! All went well here so far. The only observed "feature" was that the wireless-cm2 module was enabled after upgrade. This was a bit annoying because we needed to restart devices not having any wireless devices in them. It was observed on CRS125-24G-1S and CCR1016 and also on CCR...
by steen
Sat Nov 26, 2016 7:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP client looses IP address, telia open fiber
Replies: 4
Views: 2643

Re: DHCP client looses IP address, telia open fiber

Hello Folks! Ok, exactly what I wanted to hear. I have an open dialogue with telia about it and a ticket, it is on their third line now they say. They wanted me to change to another router to see if it repeated, but I could not do that. So I will go back to them with this information. We have observ...
by steen
Mon Oct 31, 2016 12:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DHCP client looses IP address, telia open fiber
Replies: 4
Views: 2643

DHCP client looses IP address, telia open fiber

Hello Folks! We have had a problem for several years actually, it is coming and going and have affected two sites over the years and as I remember also ADSL and VDSL links we have had. DHCP client looses IP address and fails to renew it, hence causing internet downtime at those sites. It usually fix...
by steen
Thu Sep 29, 2016 2:25 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.37 [current] is released!
Replies: 197
Views: 66883

Re: v6.37 [current] is released!

After upgrade to 6.37 with DFS, when I change frekvency --> then is AP with fixed frekvency (5620Mhz) 10minutes detecting radar (without clients) and after 10minutes is runnig AP. It is normal? When using 5600-5650MHz, ETSI requires to search for 10 minutes, this is in the regulations. You should u...
by steen
Wed Sep 28, 2016 8:19 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.37 [current] is released!
Replies: 197
Views: 66883

Re: v6.37 [current] is released!

Hello Normis! I do not get same result as you when checking for DFS: [admin@liuyun] > interface wireless info country-info country: sweden ranges: 2402-2482/b,g,gn20,gn40(20dBm) 2417-2457/g-turbo(20dBm) 5170-5250/a,an20,an40,ac20,ac40,ac80,ac160(20dBm)/passive 5250-5330/a,an20,an40,ac20,ac40,ac80,ac...
by steen
Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:10 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.37 [current] is released!
Replies: 197
Views: 66883

Re: v6.37 [current] is released!

You can see which frequencies are coded in the driver with this command: [admin@MikroTik] > interface wireless info country-info country: sweden ranges: 2402-2482/b,g,gn20,gn40(20dBm) 2417-2457/g-turbo(20dBm) 5170-5250/a,an20,an40,ac20,ac40,ac80,ac160(20dBm)/passive,indoor 5250-5330/a,an20,an40,ac2...
by steen
Wed Sep 28, 2016 4:59 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.37 [current] is released!
Replies: 197
Views: 66883

Re: v6.37 [current] is released!

Hello Folks! We have been running an wireless enterprise environment for many years, we had to fully stop the update of all our devices since it has been announced that DFS mode has been put on based on which country you set. But how can I see if DFS is activated on my devices which I tested to upg...
by steen
Wed Sep 28, 2016 3:42 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.37 [current] is released!
Replies: 197
Views: 66883

Re: v6.37 [current] is released!

Hello Folks! We have been running an wireless enterprise environment for many years, we had to fully stop the update of all our devices since it has been announced that DFS mode has been put on based on which country you set. But how can I see if DFS is activated on my devices which I tested to upg...
by steen
Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:05 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.37 [current] is released!
Replies: 197
Views: 66883

Re: v6.37 [current] is released!

Hello Folks! We have been running an wireless enterprise environment for many years, we had to fully stop the update of all our devices since it has been announced that DFS mode has been put on based on which country you set. But how can I see if DFS is activated on my devices which I tested to upg...
by steen
Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:06 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.37 [current] is released!
Replies: 197
Views: 66883

Re: v6.37 [current] is released!

Hello Folks! We have been running an wireless enterprise environment for many years, we had to fully stop the update of all our devices since it has been announced that DFS mode has been put on based on which country you set. But how can I see if DFS is activated on my devices which I tested to upgr...
by steen
Sun Sep 25, 2016 9:14 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.37 [current] is released!
Replies: 197
Views: 66883

Re: v6.37 [current] is released!

Hello Folks! Upgrading KVM based CHR to 6.37 broke network interfaces, they all become HALF DUPLEX, is that really how it should be !? [admin@dude] > /log print 07:49:01 system,info router rebooted 07:49:02 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 65535M, half duplex) 07:49:02 interface,info ether2 link...
by steen
Sun Sep 18, 2016 7:46 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: V3.6 running in Windows 10 after latest updates.
Replies: 1
Views: 1176

V3.6 running in Windows 10 after latest updates.

Hello Folks! First, we are migrating to new Dude but meanwhile we need to have old monitoring in parallel. After latest Windows10 update Dude v3.6 client does not start anymore nor does it install properly, at least not for us. Workaround is to set properties of the dude.exe to run in compatible mod...
by steen
Sat Sep 17, 2016 11:35 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Copy paste network maps and other elements between network maps
Replies: 1
Views: 2137

Copy paste network maps and other elements between network maps

Hello Folks!

Another issue or maybe I got it wrong.

I can not copy paste network maps to another network map anymore, neither can I copy paste any other element between network maps.

How do I do this ?
by steen
Sat Sep 17, 2016 8:19 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: The dude client, load slownesses
Replies: 3
Views: 2297

The dude client, load slownesses

Hello Folks! I experience load slownesses with The Dude 6.36.3. After pressing "Connect" it loads very slow, baby 800-900Kbps with a few peaks up to 1-2Mbit.. The old 3.6 dude client easely loaded with 4-5Mbit/s and much higher. This results in a very slow "login" till the GUI ar...
by steen
Fri Sep 16, 2016 12:32 am
Forum: The Dude
Topic: SNMP not working for Centos7 and some other devices
Replies: 0
Views: 1105

SNMP not working for Centos7 and some other devices

Hello Folks! I have just built CHR with the dude to replace the server 2008 based v3.6 dude. There arrived problems after a few hours work, simple SNMP attributes that v3.6 of the dude picked up is not at all working in the new dude 6.36.3. In some devices like Centos7 can be snmpwalked but nothing ...
by steen
Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:15 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where is windows version ?
Replies: 13
Views: 3809

Re: Where is windows version ?

The new Dude fixes a lot of the issues in the previous version. Here is a migration guide: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:The_Dude_v6/MigrationToNewDude CHR can be run with a free license. 1Mbit is the limitation, but should be enough for the Dude Perfect! my vendor recommends 4GB RAM and 4 C...
by steen
Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:16 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where is windows version ?
Replies: 13
Views: 3809

Re: Where is windows version ?

The new Dude fixes a lot of the issues in the previous version. Here is a migration guide: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:The_Dude_v6/MigrationToNewDude CHR can be run with a free license. 1Mbit is the limitation, but should be enough for the Dude Perfect! my vendor recommends 4GB RAM and 4 C...
by steen
Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:15 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where is windows version ?
Replies: 13
Views: 3809

Re: Where is windows version ?

Try the new dude in testing mode first. It is not so mature yet and it is missing syslog so far. You can run chr with free testing license without any limitation to be sure what license type you will need to buy. No need to deal with reseller, you can obtain licenses directly. As I expected. I spok...
by steen
Wed Sep 14, 2016 1:44 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where is windows version ?
Replies: 13
Views: 3809

Re: Where is windows version ?

This is what I tried to say in my first response http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:The_Dude_v6/The_dude_server_on_VM_CHR :-) Yes you mentioned virtual box vm, something I would try to avoid running 24/7-365 in production. Option at our site is XEN or KVM virtualization or put it in PPC or TILE b...
by steen
Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:44 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where is windows version ?
Replies: 13
Views: 3809

Re: Where is windows version ?

Hello Folks! We do not only use the dude for monitoring using big maps with backgrounds and so on. It is also used as SYSLOG server for about 100 various servers and mikrotik devices plus cisco firewalls and other devices. We also have a number of probes and snmp stuff in the monitoring today. The n...
by steen
Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:26 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where is windows version ?
Replies: 13
Views: 3809

Re: Where is windows version ?

screen 1.jpg Thanks! The server is still version 3.6 and I cannot change that easely as far I know now, someone ? The new client from picture above asks me if I would like to upgrade to version 3.6 and I get not further. What now, using some old copy of 3.6 binaries meanwhile waiting for some solut...
by steen
Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:17 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where is windows version ?
Replies: 13
Views: 3809

Re: Where is windows version ?

screen 1.jpg Thanks! The server is still version 3.6 and I cannot change that easely as far I know now. The new client from picture above asks me if I would like to upgrade to version 3.6 and I get not further. What now, using some old copy of 3.6 binaries meanwhile waiting for some solution on how...
by steen
Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:34 am
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where is windows version ?
Replies: 13
Views: 3809

Re: Where is windows version ?

The Dude server for Windows is discontinued for several months or more. Your option is to use Dude client + RouterOS Dude server in a VirtualBox VM Okey I see :-) Now it was not the dude server who died, it was the dude client sorry if it was misleading. So where do I download the dude client for w...
by steen
Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:35 am
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Where is windows version ?
Replies: 13
Views: 3809

Where is windows version ?

Hello Folks! I do not longer find where to download the windows version of the dude. Suddenly today my windows version of the dude does not open anymore, it unexpected ask me for language and does not open and I can ot pass by that point. So I decided trying to download the dude on new, but I do onl...
by steen
Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:25 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.36 [current] is released!
Replies: 183
Views: 72180

Re: v6.36 [current] is released!

Hello Folks! After upgrading to RoS v6.36 from RoS v6.35.x and v6.35 we experience kernel crash and device reboots. Affected devices are RB433, RB411, RB711G-5HnD, RB SXT-5D, CRS125-24G-1S, RB333, CCR1016-12G, CCR1009-8G1S+, RB2011, RB750. Kernel crash has been observed one time or two times so far ...
by steen
Sat May 21, 2016 11:02 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: NV2 Real life PTMP migration and stability
Replies: 162
Views: 48778

Re: NV2 Real life PTMP migration and stability

One year plus later report! All is still very stable! We now got gigabit internet at basastations, our rb411 cpe:s devices is pumping data up to 20-25Mbit/s without any hassle, cpu 40%-45% and sxt goes up to 35Mbit/s and basastation with standard mt r52 radioboards. Pingtimes is less than 16ms all ...
by steen
Sat May 14, 2016 10:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: Thunderstorm no direct strike 2 * RB600 and 1 * RB800 died
Replies: 2
Views: 991

Thunderstorm no direct strike 2 * RB600 and 1 * RB800 died

Hello Folks! Over the years from 2007 and forward I have faced problem with one of our basestations. The first RB600 died slowly, the PoE ethernet port stopped working and the device become inaccessible from the wired network. The ethernet port started to log errors now and then a year before dying....
by steen
Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:31 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.
Replies: 10
Views: 6700

Re: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.

Hello Folks! We just got a message from our partner in the lab area, we can not get any constant grid power. There are only street lights which are on when it is dark only, from them we can get power some hours to charge batteries instead. But it will not be enough summertime, part of year the light...
by steen
Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:53 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.
Replies: 10
Views: 6700

Re: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.

Use a Passive PoE feature and a 24V — 5V converter, for example. Passive PoE can be turned on and off too, and "stupid" enough just to give voltage without any devices. Okey, I will try something like that. I want to limit the number of cables up in the mast as much as possible, optimally...
by steen
Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:50 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.
Replies: 10
Views: 6700

Re: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.

Use a Passive PoE feature and a 24V — 5V converter, for example. Passive PoE can be turned on and off too, and "stupid" enough just to give voltage without any devices. Okey, I will try something like that. I want to limit the number of cables up in the mast as much as possible, optimally...
by steen
Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:01 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.
Replies: 10
Views: 6700

Re: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.

Use a Passive PoE feature and a 24V — 5V converter, for example. Passive PoE can be turned on and off too, and "stupid" enough just to give voltage without any devices. Okey, I will try something like that. I want to limit the number of cables up in the mast as much as possible, optimally...
by steen
Mon Feb 29, 2016 10:50 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.
Replies: 10
Views: 6700

Re: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.

Hello Folks! Ok, I got it. :-) Beside raspberry pi 2, do someone of you know any else similar hardware that does not take that much power but still can run a full fledged linux operating system ? I am not sure how stable the virtualization in mikrotik devices is nowadays, last time I tried it it was...
by steen
Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:32 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.
Replies: 10
Views: 6700

Powering USB devices with mikrotik router.

Hello Folks! I would like to use the USB to power some devices and the ability to turn off and on the power from the Mikrotik router. The mikrotik device in turn is powered by using its PoE. One of the devices I would need to power is Raspberry PI 2. The mikrotik device also should also act as Wirel...
by steen
Wed Oct 07, 2015 11:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: version confused
Replies: 5
Views: 1913

Re:

Did you update your routerboard firmware?

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
Yes on some devices.
by steen
Fri Sep 25, 2015 10:10 am
Forum: General
Topic: version confused
Replies: 5
Views: 1913

Re: version confused

Thanks! I did get a problem with flapping switch ports and devices that suddenly ethernet ports started to malfunction, going on and off or having very limited capability with versions after 6.29 and had to install 6.33rc3 on those devices to get them stabilized again. Right now I am using 6.32.1 on...
by steen
Thu Sep 24, 2015 8:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: version confused
Replies: 5
Views: 1913

version confused

Hello Folks!

I am but confused what is the stable releases and not stable releases and what is considered to be some beta version.

We have production here and only want to upgrade using stable releases.

Can someone please give an explanation, what is the best practice choosing upgrade versions ?
by steen
Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:41 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Devices are greyed out after some time
Replies: 1
Views: 2224

Devices are greyed out after some time

Hello Folks! We are running the "stable" version of The Dude since years back and it has always served us well. However, recently a few devices has been greyed out, all monitored services are grey also when looking on them. Like CPU, PIN, DNS, DISK all are greyed out. If I delete the devic...
by steen
Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:51 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.32 released [version temporarily removed]
Replies: 116
Views: 47179

Re: v6.32 released [version temporarily removed]

Hello Folks! Usually I stay away from RC versions in production, this time there was no other way out. RB750 started to flap ports and one CRS fully locked and had to be power cycled. Only way out was to upgrade to RB6.33rc3, we tried to downgrade to latest stable below 6.31 but it did not help. Res...
by steen
Fri Sep 04, 2015 12:21 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.32 released [version temporarily removed]
Replies: 116
Views: 47179

Re: v6.32 released [version temporarily removed]

Hello Folks! Issue with CCR1016, after some days of operation suddenly port ether1 at random stop forwarding traffic for intervals and comes back on-line again. There is nothing in the log files or any other logs either, no support file or something like that. I restarted the CCR1016 and situation c...
by steen
Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: Ideas, moving CPE:s to new AP remotely, routed network
Replies: 0
Views: 655

Ideas, moving CPE:s to new AP remotely, routed network

Hello Folks! I am in a situation where we need to moving several CPE:s witch AC capability to new basestations which can do AC. The new basestations sit in same sector so that is not a problem. New AP has another authentication to. But all CPE:s need new IP network configuration in same time as they...
by steen
Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:27 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: SXT AC optimize performance
Replies: 16
Views: 4811

Re: SXT AC optimize performance

Hello Folks! I now added a few more customers to the AC network, they all get a steady 50-70Mbit/s down and upstreams, 80-85Mbit/s commonly and rarely 90-95Mbit/s.7 With the old 54Mbit/s wifi they got average 20Mbit/s down and upstreams, and common 22-25Mbit/s and rarely 30-35Mbit/s. NV2 is used, a...
by steen
Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:56 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: SXT AC optimize performance
Replies: 16
Views: 4811

Re:

I am recycling cm9, r52 and similar cards. They are able to pass 53Mbits in 40mhz channel on single polarity. Not so bad on some places still. Just for comparison... I also tried that, R52 5Ghz band, in 40MHz (turbo) mode using RB411 boards, 21dbI directional antennas, all claiming 108Mbit/s links ...
by steen
Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:40 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: SXT AC optimize performance
Replies: 16
Views: 4811

Re: SXT AC optimize performance

Hello Folks! I now added a few more customers to the AC network, they all get a steady 50-70Mbit/s down and upstreams, 80-85Mbit/s commonly and rarely 90-95Mbit/s. With the old 54Mbit/s wifi they got average 20Mbit/s down and upstreams, and common 22-25Mbit/s and rarely 30-35Mbit/s. NV2 is used, and...
by steen
Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:10 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: SXT AC optimize performance
Replies: 16
Views: 4811

Re: SXT AC optimize performance

Hello Folks! Today we upgraded to RoS 6.31 and wireless-cm2. All our links now is rock solid Tx 300/Rx 300 and CCQ is 99-100% at all times for our N clients, yet we do not have any AC clients, my distributor tell me that AC is for the time being mainly for links, AC PTMP is not yet fully developed....
by steen
Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:06 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: SXT AC optimize performance
Replies: 16
Views: 4811

Re: SXT AC optimize performance

Hello Folks! Today we upgraded to RoS 6.31 and wireless-cm2. All our links now is rock solid Tx 300/Rx 300 and CCQ is 99-100% at all times for our N clients, yet we do not have any AC clients, my distributor tell me that AC is for the time being mainly for links, AC PTMP is not yet fully developed. ...
by steen
Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:46 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.30.2 bugfix release
Replies: 147
Views: 58634

Re: v6.30.2 bugfix release

Hello Follks!

All our system is updated to v6.30.2 plus the new wireless cm2 package, without any visible problems, all systems normal.
We have almost all flavors, RB411, RB333, RB433, CRS125, CCR, SXT, SEXTANT RB2011 RB750..
by steen
Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:18 am
Forum: General
Topic: CRS125 + Cisco 2960 trunk line went down and disabled ports
Replies: 1
Views: 1125

Re: CRS125 + Cisco 2960 trunk line went down and disabled ports

Problem was solved, we did investigate further, it was a human mistake after all, we did by mistake disable ether1 on CRS switch during changes in the CCR where we disabled ether1. That explains why there was no link down.
by steen
Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:15 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Wich Wireless package to use, -fp or cm2?
Replies: 14
Views: 18312

Re: Wich Wireless package to use, -fp or cm2?

Hello Folks! I tested this new package on SXT AC <--> SXT N. Before I got link settle to 300/300 after I got 60/60 as max. Throughput become less than before, will have it sit like that for a day and see what happens, if not better I will switch back again. We did not implement it at any other plac...
by steen
Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:05 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: Wich Wireless package to use, -fp or cm2?
Replies: 14
Views: 18312

Re: Wich Wireless package to use, -fp or cm2?

Hello Folks! I tested this new package on SXT AC <--> SXT N. Before I got link settle to 300/300 after I got 60/60 as max. Throughput become less than before, will have it sit like that for a day and see what happens, if not better I will switch back again. We did not implement it at any other place...
by steen
Sat Aug 08, 2015 2:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: CRS125 + Cisco 2960 trunk line went down and disabled ports
Replies: 1
Views: 1125

CRS125 + Cisco 2960 trunk line went down and disabled ports

Hello Folks! I face a problem... I did upgrade from RB333 to CCR and in same time I did move from cisco 2960. All update went very well, our internet become at least 3 times as fast as before. Internet is still connected to a 100mbit/s port at cisco 2960. From 2960 goes a gigabit trunk Gi0/2 <-> eth...
by steen
Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:13 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.30.2 bugfix release
Replies: 147
Views: 58634

Re: v6.30.2 bugfix release

Hello Folks! We just upgraded whole our environment to this level, no visible problem at any place. We got one suppout from one RB411 which disappeared from network after that incident and has not been visible since, don't know if it was the upgrade or something else as simple as customer switched o...
by steen
Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:03 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: SXT AC optimize performance
Replies: 16
Views: 4811

Re: SXT AC optimize performance

If you're confident the link will never drop to very low speeds, you can disable the lower data rates so that it only ever "starts" at something reasonable. The problem I've found with starting at 6mbps is that the "newly associated client" will slow the whole AP down until it &...
by steen
Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:29 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: SXT AC optimize performance
Replies: 16
Views: 4811

SXT AC optimize performance

Hello Folks! The past weekend I did our first test putting up mikrotik link using SXT and AC/N to another SEXTANT A/N. But I face a problem, the link goes up to 300/300 sometimes only 270/270 and it always start at 6/6 and does not go up to 300/300 till there has been some traffic for a while over t...
by steen
Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:03 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.30.2 bugfix release
Replies: 147
Views: 58634

Re: v6.30.2 bugfix release

I have two questions, why did wireless-fp become enabled ? I can not tell why it's being enable by default, but I can explain to you why it may be useful to enable it on devices without any wireless hardware at all. It is because even if you don't have any wireless hardware installed on the device ...
by steen
Sat Aug 01, 2015 11:00 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.30.2 bugfix release
Replies: 147
Views: 58634

Re: v6.30.2 bugfix release

Hello Folks! Whilst upgrading CRS125 used as a pure switch with no radio boards at all in it, with all packages disabled except the necessary ones for logging in and manage it, we noticed that wireless-fp was enabled and some new wireless-cm2 package has arrived. I have two questions, why did wirele...
by steen
Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:38 pm
Forum: The User Manager
Topic: I am new with user manager, need some help
Replies: 1
Views: 1516

Re: I am new with user manager, need some help

Hello Folks! I reply to myself. I have finally managed to get it work, it was not so difficult. Basically I followed this on the radius hotspot client access points: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Hotspot For the user manager + hotspot + radius server I did this on another router, here call...
by steen
Sun Jul 26, 2015 2:23 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v6.30.2 bugfix release
Replies: 147
Views: 58634

Re: v6.30.2 bugfix release

Hello Folks!

Where do I find latest stable, RoS v6.30, should that not be available no the download page ?
by steen
Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:00 am
Forum: The User Manager
Topic: I am new with user manager, need some help
Replies: 1
Views: 1516

I am new with user manager, need some help

Hello Folks! I have a RB with RoS5.26, it will not be upgraded to 6.X by various reasons. In that router I managed to setup hotspot and user manager, it works for wireless customers and I use vouchers with it. I got help setting it up 2013, did not do so much about it except adding vouchers. Now the...
by steen
Sat Apr 11, 2015 11:03 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: wireless sniffer streaming to a server
Replies: 5
Views: 5264

wireless sniffer streaming to a server

Hello Folks! I try to setup a wireless sniffer using mikrotik and send the stream to a linux box for further processing. Idea is to find stolen items, even if they are not registered to our access points. I managed to stream to wireshark, no problem at all, but that does not solve my problem. Ultima...
by steen
Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:14 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: RouterOS v6.27 released
Replies: 273
Views: 133976

Re: RouterOS v6.27 released

Steen, did you try Netinstall or just copying .npk files? For me, 6.27 is a good release. I have it running on couple of routerboards and on those never had kernel panics, sudden reboots or resets. Everything that i have set on earlier releases (5.x) working like a charm. Big plus from me! I did co...
by steen
Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:23 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: RouterOS v6.27 released
Replies: 273
Views: 133976

Re: RouterOS v6.27 released

Hello Folks!

Trying to upgrade CCR1016 from 6.24 to 6.27 failed due to kernel panic, and it reverted back to 6.24 again and support was generated. I put up a support case to MT with support file.

Anyone who have seen this and or know how to mitigate it ?
by steen
Sun Apr 05, 2015 10:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RoS V6.X Proxy + Queues
Replies: 0
Views: 869

RoS V6.X Proxy + Queues

Hello Folks! I face some kind of challenge. I followed this guide: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Queue_with_Masquerading_and_Internal_Web-Proxy One thing is that global-in is not found anymore. All works except for uploads, they just pass through it and is not queued. I did try to add upload parent ...
by steen
Tue Jan 27, 2015 12:21 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: The Dude and RoS6.25+
Replies: 7
Views: 5751

Re: The Dude and RoS6.25+

packages.PNG This happens for me with 6.24 also. Dude no longer sees the packages for devices that have been upgraded to 6.24 and 6.25. Trying to upgrade a 6.24 device to 6.25 via the Dude gives an error of "packages unknown". Normally this upgrade process is pretty reliable. It worked fo...
by steen
Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:49 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: The Dude and RoS6.25+
Replies: 7
Views: 5751

The Dude and RoS6.25+

Hello Folks! A very annoying fact is that the dude can not be used to upgrade RoS devices, one of the major reason we have it beside its nice ability to monitor devices. Currently we do not know what to do about it, it is no option for us to sit upgrade devices manually one by one. One option would ...
by steen
Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RouterOS v6.25
Replies: 107
Views: 44866

Re: RouterOS v6.25

Major bug! It is not possible to upgrade devices using "The Dude", we manage all our network through "The Dude", how come ? Please explain why this now happened and when we can expect it work again ? Without having the dude doing upgrade work, we are almost dead in water, it will...
by steen
Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:12 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 6.24 released
Replies: 89
Views: 48774

Re: 6.24 released

Hello Folks! From the release of the product we have had problem with CCR1016-12G. This is not anything new, it happens all the time, at least one time per every 2 months interval, we had it for almost 2 years now. The device simply stops working, it does not pass any traffic at all on any ports, a...
by steen
Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:59 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CCR1016-12G istable hardware ?
Replies: 1
Views: 1430

CCR1016-12G istable hardware ?

Hello Folks! We have had problem with CCR1016-12G from the start, two years back. It simply stop working without further notice, there is nothing in the logs and no supout files, it just stops, all lamps are on like usual, you ca not see anything unusal from outside. A power recycle by removing powe...
by steen
Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:52 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 6.24 released
Replies: 89
Views: 48774

Re: 6.24 released

Hello Folks! From the release of the product we have had problem with CCR1016-12G. This is not anything new, it happens all the time, at least one time per every 2 months interval, we had it for almost 2 years now. The device simply stops working, it does not pass any traffic at all on any ports, al...
by steen
Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:31 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 6.24 released
Replies: 89
Views: 48774

Re: 6.24 released

Hello Folks! Whole network is updated to RoS6.24, after past workweek no visible problems. However vrrp show some strange problems, it reports back that there was an authentication problem. Anyhow we did not yet take vrrp in production. It seems like it works anyway, we pinged device vrrp ip address...
by steen
Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:21 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 6.24 released
Replies: 89
Views: 48774

Re: 6.24 released

l2tp does not work using rb2011uas, it dies after 32kb of data transferred, it has been broken since 6.23 possible more early, discovered today after an incident that costed one company whole day outage
Problem solved! It was some MTU/MRU values which had to be reduced.
by steen
Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:18 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Massive inbox login from the-dude
Replies: 2
Views: 2202

Re: Massive inbox login from the-dude

The connection breaks probably so it is reconnecting. Don't use admin user for any purpose. Better to create other user for administration and different user with reduced rights for Dude. Yup, will convert it all to use another monitor user :-) Also found the problem, it was as you say, connection ...
by steen
Tue Dec 30, 2014 1:06 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 6.24 released
Replies: 89
Views: 48774

Re: 6.24 released

l2tp does not work using rb2011uas, it dies after 32kb of data transferred, it has been broken since 6.23 possible more early, discovered today after an incident that costed one company whole day outage
by steen
Mon Dec 29, 2014 10:28 pm
Forum: The Dude
Topic: Massive inbox login from the-dude
Replies: 2
Views: 2202

Massive inbox login from the-dude

Hello Folks! On one of our router there is massive inbox logins originating from the dude: 11:04:48 system,info,account user admin logged in from 10.30.0.6 via winbox 11:05:07 system,info,account user admin logged out from 10.30.0.6 via winbox 11:06:08 system,info,account user admin logged in from 1...
by steen
Sat Dec 27, 2014 10:02 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 6.23 released!
Replies: 143
Views: 72842

Re: 6.23 released!

Hello Folks! NTP problems has arrived. We syncronize all RB against two NTP servers, that has been working for years. Suddeny some time ago, RB backups started to arrive at different days and so on, hmmm.. Investigating that, we found that the clock was very much off in them and even they were days ...
by steen
Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:44 pm
Forum: Forwarding Protocols
Topic: OSPF how does it actually work....
Replies: 5
Views: 2282

Re: OSPF how does it actually work....

Hello ! Great, I was just wondering what passive interface was for! I will have to put passive on my vrrp interfaces that is only used for clients who do not understand ospf to reach default gw in case of router is off line by somne reasons. Dont know yet if I need to do it on some more interfaces. ...
by steen
Sun Dec 21, 2014 5:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: IPSEC site to site migration how ?
Replies: 1
Views: 1273

Re: IPSEC site to site migration how ?

Hello Folks! We have now migrated the network by adding two l2tp leg to all affected offices (whilst ipsec was running during full production). After all l2tp links were up and running as they should, we implemented ospf in the whole network and fiddled around with it so all routes were distributed ...
by steen
Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:22 pm
Forum: Forwarding Protocols
Topic: OSPF how does it actually work....
Replies: 5
Views: 2282

Re: OSPF how does it actually work....

Hello Folks! I have gained some knowledge about OSPF in practice now. There are still a lot of strange things about it. I made the routing filters working and then many problems went away. Now I am struggling with the migration from static routes to OSPF, it is a mess and feels a bit dangerous to lo...
by steen
Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:12 pm
Forum: Forwarding Protocols
Topic: OSPF how does it actually work....
Replies: 5
Views: 2282

OSPF how does it actually work....

Hello Folks! We have a complex network with many subnets and routers, all routing is fully static all over, and it has been successful for almost 8 years, not at all any problems has been observed. We tried to implement OSPF in order to be able "route around" failing l2tp links. Well that ...
by steen
Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:23 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 6.23 released!
Replies: 143
Views: 72842

Re: 6.23 released!

Hello Folks!

All our network is now updated to RoS6.23 no visible problems, it actually solved two problems for us, we constantly got DNS down and Disk down all over our network from the dude using RoS6.22, after RoS6.23 it disappeared. Nice!
by steen
Sat Dec 13, 2014 9:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: IPSEC site to site migration how ?
Replies: 1
Views: 1273

IPSEC site to site migration how ?

Hello Folks! I am not much into this topic, almost 8 years ago we got help setting up site to site ipsec tunnels between our two sites it has been working flawlessly all years and still do. There are many multiple networks at both sites which communicate with each other. No we abandon one of our ISP...
by steen
Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: 6.22 released!
Replies: 151
Views: 70997

Re: 6.22 released!

Hello Folks! All out devices are now successfully upgraded to RoS6.22 and latest firmware for each device, thats say: RB333, RB411, RB433, RB600, RB750, RB751U-2HnD, RN2011 UAS-2HnD, SXT-5D, SXT G-5HnD, SEXTANT(RB711G-5HnD, RB711-5HnD), CCR1016-12G, CRS125-24G-1S. All systems working normally as far...
by steen
Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RB450G 100%CPU at 100Mbit/s is that correct?
Replies: 17
Views: 6883

Re: RB450G 100%CPU at 100Mbit/s is that correct?

CCR is now configured, tomorrow it will replace the temporary router. I was supriced to see that CCR lacks switch-chip, and you have to use bridge that will eat unessesary CPU cycles for local lan server to server copy, so we could not abandon our switch at this time, maybe CCR is so fast it does n...
by steen
Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 6.22 released!
Replies: 151
Views: 70997

Re: 6.22 released!

Hello Folks!

60% of our devices successfully updated to RoS6.22, rock solid for a week: rb333, rb411,rb433,rb600,rb750,crs and ccr. Remaining will be taken upcoming weekend.
by steen
Fri Nov 07, 2014 9:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: RB450G 100%CPU at 100Mbit/s is that correct?
Replies: 17
Views: 6883

Re: RB450G 100%CPU at 100Mbit/s is that correct?

Hello Folks! Regarding support from mikrotik I must say some words. Forum has been very helpful for us, also our distributor has helped a lot. I always had got answer on my supout files within 1-3 officedays, I do what they tell me, write a small report what happened and so on, eventually if possibl...
by steen
Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.21.1 released
Replies: 112
Views: 38703

Re: v6.21.1 released

Hello Folks!

Upgraded some more devices from RoS6.20 + boot 3.18 -> RoS6.21.1 + boot 3.19, this time CRS125-24G-1S using vlan trunks and access ports. Everything went smoothly no visible problems observed, whole procedure was completed within 5 minutes.
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by steen
Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.21.1 released
Replies: 112
Views: 38703

Re: v6.21.1 released

Hello Folks!

Some office devices upgraded, RB411 and RB433, no visible problems, all working smoothly.
Although strange version number ros6.21.1 :-)
We will upgrade more devices after some runtime to gain trust in stability.
by steen
Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS documentation
Replies: 79
Views: 37842

Re: CRS documentation

Hello Folks! Now one year with CRS as a pure switch in pair with CCR1016, works just nice. (Well the CCR1016 has had some problems, suddenly ports stop working and ipsec tunnel dies afer some months uptime, and the whole device need to be restarted.) Two months plus using CRS125 as vlan switches wit...
by steen
Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RB450G 100%CPU at 100Mbit/s is that correct?
Replies: 17
Views: 6883

Re: RB450G 100%CPU at 100Mbit/s is that correct?

Hello Folks! We will replace some RB333 devices with CCR1016 or CCR1009 this year and next year. We are suffering max troughput of 30-31Mbit/s using RB333, it is very loaded due to many complicated routing rules, policy based routing, advanced queues, tagged traffic and firewall rules. CPU is 100% a...
by steen
Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.20 released!
Replies: 146
Views: 74818

Re: v6.20 released!

Hello Folks! Regarding the routing marks for policy based routing, it seems like that problem is solved now. I just upgraded from RoS6.7 to RoS6.20 on one of our routers that make use of it. I am still in doubt, because one of the routes did not work directly, it took about 3 hours, then it started ...
by steen
Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.20 released!
Replies: 146
Views: 74818

Re: v6.20 released!

Hello, after 6.19 -> 6.20 the monitor service disk for the dude doesn't work anymore... p.s. *) stores are replaced with folders and disks are now managed under /disk menu; I can create folders from winbox or i need to create via console? Does this mean we soon now will se a new version of The Dude...
by steen
Fri Oct 03, 2014 3:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.20 released!
Replies: 146
Views: 74818

Re: v6.20 released!

Hello Folks!

On each device we have upgraded (except RB411) from RoS6.19 to RoS6.20 we got alarms on DISK !?

There is no problem with disk, it is not full or damaged on any device.

What is this ?
by steen
Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.19 released
Replies: 256
Views: 117022

Re: v6.19 released

I was about to deploy an RB450 as a router to an OOB management network where rock solid stability is a must. I will throw this RB450 in the trash and use another thing. - Beta testing in a production environment is not for me. - Reading a thread on a forum to determine if a stable version is reall...
by steen
Wed Sep 17, 2014 9:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS documentation
Replies: 79
Views: 37842

Re: CRS documentation

As far as I know, you can't use any STP on a CRS unless you use software bridges, which you for sure don't wan't to.
I solved it by circle the switches an putting in two cisco switches in the circle that can do STP, no loops all looking good so far.
by steen
Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.19 released
Replies: 256
Views: 117022

Re: v6.19 released

Hello Folks! We now updated even more RB411 and SXT and SEXTANT:s to RoS6.19 and wireless-fp, no problems so far. The only observation is that the RB devices takes long time to come back on the network after updating RoS, the same is after the firmware is updated and when switching package from wire...
by steen
Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS documentation
Replies: 79
Views: 37842

Re: CRS documentation

Hello Folks!

I need to put up CRS125 switch in a datacenter to replace a bunch of cisco2960 switches, they are connected in a circle's and some other in meshes.

How do I activate spanning tree in them ?
by steen
Sat Sep 13, 2014 12:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Max OS X & Mikrotik products
Replies: 0
Views: 1161

Max OS X & Mikrotik products

Hello Folks! Some time ago we did get Apple computers (mac book pro) as workstations in our Company. They are equipped with Parallels and VMWare fusion plus Windows 7 installations and RedHat workstation. It offered different challenges, here is how we overcome them. 1. Serial port need to manage ro...
by steen
Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: v6.19 released
Replies: 256
Views: 117022

Re: v6.19 released

Hello Folks! We successfully updated about 1/3 of of our MT equipment to RoS6.19 and firmware, we also enabled wireless-fb package on them. RB411, RB433, SXT, SEXTANT and a couple of switches CRS125. We did it in small steps like, first a baseline reboot then update RoS + reboot, then update firmwar...
by steen
Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.19 released
Replies: 256
Views: 117022

Re: v6.19 released

because of that routing marks (used for policy based routing) is still broken on all later releases we tested. what exactly did you test? is it repeatable on v6.19? how? For years we have tagged source address: scmgateway protocol: tcp/smtp with mailroute. In routing we route all traffic tagged mai...
by steen
Sun Sep 07, 2014 2:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.19 released
Replies: 256
Views: 117022

Re: v6.19 released

Hello Folks! We updated a couple of CRS125, RB411, RB433 and SEXTANT(RB711G) from ROS6.15, on Sextant and RB433 we did also change to wireless-fp, all updates was successful, nothing unusal was observed. However, the configurations on all devices contains nothing exotic, just simple static routing a...
by steen
Sun Jul 20, 2014 3:12 am
Forum: General
Topic: v6.16/v6.17
Replies: 187
Views: 62914

Re: v6.16/v6.17

Hello Folks! I have problem with DHCP.... it was working before. DHCP server ---> Device Cisco Switch <<<--- trunk with some vlans --->>> CRS125 --->>> Linux PC, WIndows PC, Appliances. The DHCP server sit in vlan 200 and is hooked up to one access port, it has been working for 10 years. Devices con...
by steen
Sun Jul 06, 2014 12:08 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: 5GHz 802.11n and Iphone plus some other devices fails
Replies: 3
Views: 2012

5GHz 802.11n and Iphone plus some other devices fails

Hello Folks! I have problem with 5GHz and 802.11n. Iphone 5S refuses to connect to Mikrotik AP at 5GHz and 802.11n, it can see the network but it fails to connect by some unknown reasons. It is not only Iphone, but also several other devices that show the same problem. The same goes for Sony Ericsso...
by steen
Sat Jun 28, 2014 11:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.15 released
Replies: 302
Views: 133130

Re: v6.15 released

Hello Folks! I guess we are lucky then, we successfully upgraded all our infrastructure devices (thats say many of each: SXT, SEXTANT, SEXTANT G, RB411, RB, RB433, RB600, RB333, RB750, RB2011UAS_2HnD, CRS and CCR1016). We did not upgrade routers using policy based routing with routing marks (broke a...
by steen
Fri Jun 27, 2014 7:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.
Replies: 12
Views: 6500

Re: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.

Hello Folks! I got the new gears from my vendor and did the following tests: Switch CRS <---injector-cable---> Injector <------------cable-X--------------> SEXTANT G Injector that follows SEXTANT G + Unshilded Cat5E cable to Sextant => 1Gigabit was achieved. Injector that follows SEXTANT G + FTP Cat...
by steen
Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.
Replies: 12
Views: 6500

Re: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.

Hello Folks! I ordered a couple of new SEXTANT G today, hope they arrive soon. I will setup a complete lab test here and try to find out what is wrong and come back with the results. 2009 we were told that this is gigabit poe injector (at that time some black ones, and the white half moons), it soon...
by steen
Sun Jun 22, 2014 11:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.
Replies: 12
Views: 6500

Re: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.

Hello Folks! CRS gigabit port connected to mikrotik gigabit PoE adapter a 3 meter cat 6 ftp cable connected from PoE adapter to SEXTANT G, still no we got gigabit 100Mbit/s fdx. Tried another RB600 with gigabit port that replaces SEXTANT G, still no gigabit we got 100Mbit/s fdx. CRS connected to RB6...
by steen
Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.
Replies: 12
Views: 6500

Re: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.

Hello rextended! The ones without G is 100Mbit/s one must assume. Yes exactly that PoE model and: 711-5HnD gives 100Mbit/s rock solid, never seen gigabit, customer device is 1000Mbit/s gives massive port flapping, using 100Mbit/s mikrotik customer device gives rock solid 100Mbit/s 18 meter. 711G-5Hn...
by steen
Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.15 released
Replies: 302
Views: 133130

Re: v6.15 released

Hello Folks! Did a series of tests with CRS today, sfp seems to be broken from RoS6.13 and up, immediate after installing RoS6.14 led goes out and sfp becomes unavailable. But not on all our CRS:es only about every second = 50% of them. Rollback to RoS6.13 and system routerboard firmware 3.13 makes ...
by steen
Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:46 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS Documentation
Replies: 45
Views: 18482

Re: CRS Documentation

Hello Folks! I have another strange issue with CRS, the sfp cage leds is normally on regardless it is enabled or not, I do not have any sfp device attached either. But on one of the CRS the led is on during boot and then shut off when CRS comes available after boot is finished. It came after upgrad...
by steen
Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.
Replies: 12
Views: 6500

Re: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.

Hello steen, To get gigabit working, I guess all TP pairs is needed, but mt poe solution is using one cable pair right? Yes for sure I consider as I am informed for GBit/s speed there will be 8 pairs and over 4 pairs the entire electricity is running. Is it possible at all to get gigabit + mikrotik...
by steen
Sat Jun 21, 2014 10:25 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS Documentation
Replies: 45
Views: 18482

Re: CRS Documentation

Hello Folks! I have another strange issue with CRS, the sfp cage leds is normally on regardless it is enabled or not, I do not have any sfp device attached either. But on one of the CRS the led is on during boot and then shut off when CRS comes available after boot is finished. It came after upgradi...
by steen
Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.
Replies: 12
Views: 6500

Mikrotik PoE + Gigabit never better than 100Mbit/s fdx.

Hello Folks! I did never got gigabit ethernet working with mikrotik PoE injectors. I tried with Cat6 cables, Cat5e shilded, double shiled and none shilded, no matter only 100Mbit/s was achieved and cable length of max 20 meters. I used sextant connected to ASUS gigabit broadband router and NetGear g...
by steen
Sat Jun 21, 2014 5:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.15 released
Replies: 302
Views: 133130

Re: v6.15 released

Hello Folks! Upgraded many devices in our wireless infrastructure from RoS6.13 -> RoS6.15 on RB411, RB433, RB600, CCR1016 no problems so far all looks like before. I did not change from wireless to wireless-fp package, we do not have any problems with wireless package in any way. So that will wait t...
by steen
Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.15 released
Replies: 302
Views: 133130

Re: v6.15 released

Could we perhaps have BETA stamped on this firmware again? This is not the typical behavior or development path of "stable" firmware. At ALL. Seriously, 15 revisions later, and we are not making any serious progress. One step forward, another step sideways and backwards. I'm sick of being...
by steen
Sun Jun 15, 2014 1:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.15 released
Replies: 302
Views: 133130

Re: v6.15 released

What is wireless-fp package good for ? The biggest difference is the CAPsMan. Some people say it has better performance, but there is no changelog about that. I have seen improvement on 1, maybe 2 links that I upgraded and few more without any change. Okey, then I guess it is nothing for us since w...
by steen
Sat Jun 14, 2014 8:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.15 released
Replies: 302
Views: 133130

Re: v6.15 released

I've done a few upgrades to both v6.14 and v6.15 over the air. Also enabled wireless-fp package, again over the air. No problems so far.
What is wireless-fp package good for ?
by steen
Sat Jun 14, 2014 11:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: v6.15 released
Replies: 302
Views: 133130

Re: v6.15 released

Routing mark does not work again.
ACK, same issue on x86. Downgrading didn't actually help, I had to restore the config, so beware.
Hello Folks!

Routing marks has been broken since RoS6.7, all our routers that uses it (and they are many and the most important ones) they still remains on RoS6.7
by steen
Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:46 am
Forum: General
Topic: v6.13 released!
Replies: 176
Views: 65545

Re: v6.13 released!

Hello Folks! We successfully updated whole wireless infrastructure today containing of RB411, RB600, SXT and SEXTANT. No problems observed so far, also routing tags etc. is working. Yet we have fully failed to upgrade our VPN routers and VPN infrastructure which is using L2TP, devices does not matte...
by steen
Sun Jun 01, 2014 4:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS-125 works like-hub
Replies: 15
Views: 5311

Re: CRS-125 works like-hub

Hello Folks! I now got the forward-unknows-vlan=no working, before it locked CRS up fully and it did not pass any traffic, now it does. "/interface ethernet switch set forward-unknown-vlan=no" How I did it, MT Support again: 1. Login to CRS using serial port 2. Set /interface ethernet swit...
by steen
Sun May 25, 2014 9:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: CRS-125 works like-hub
Replies: 15
Views: 5311

Re: CRS-125 works like-hub

Could you please post the solution? On the link you gave are a lot of configurations, a lot of tests, but where is the solution to the problem described? Something like: do this command and that command and it's done. If possible without decorations of any kind... Absolutely, I put in all the steps...
by steen
Sat May 24, 2014 4:02 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: CRS ros6.9 vlans leaks
Replies: 3
Views: 1853

Re: CRS ros6.9 vlans leaks

We finally got it working in LAB, thanks to MT support: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=78797 see bottom of link.
by steen
Sat May 24, 2014 4:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS documentation
Replies: 79
Views: 37842

Re: CRS documentation

Hello Folks! Thanks MT support! Now the CRS is very useful for us, we did get it working with our classic trunklines and classic access ports, see here for more information abot that: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=78797 (bottom of link). There are some remaining questions, how do...
by steen
Sat May 24, 2014 3:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS-125 works like-hub
Replies: 15
Views: 5311

Re: CRS-125 works like-hub

Hello Folks! Tested ROS6.13 today (full reset without defaults and updated it, no netinstall yet). The same CRS port based vlans and inter vlan routing examples same results all fail, no traffic at all is passed through the device to any ports, and yes we tried using both ether1 and ether2 as maste...
by steen
Sat May 24, 2014 3:52 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS Documentation
Replies: 45
Views: 18482

Re: CRS Documentation

Hello Folks! More discoveries, the CRS sometimes hangs forever in starting services after a reboot, a power cycle usually brings it back to operation again. So it looks like that older bug is not fully removed. I will tell MT support about it as well because the device is rendered as useless in pro...
by steen
Sat May 24, 2014 3:15 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS Documentation
Replies: 45
Views: 18482

Re: CRS Documentation

Hello Folks! More discoveries, the CRS sometimes hangs forever in starting services after a reboot, a power cycle usually brings it back to operation again. So it looks like that older bug is not fully removed. I will tell MT support about it as well because the device is rendered as useless in pro...
by steen
Sat May 24, 2014 1:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.13 released!
Replies: 176
Views: 65545

Re: v6.13 released!

Hello Folks! At RoS6.7 L2TP was working properly, after RoS6.7 L2TP stops transferring data after anything between 70Kb to 13MB. The same goes for V6.13. It is for all RB platforms, RB411, RB433, RB333, RB600, RB2011UAS, RB750 and so on. Anyone else who had experiense of problem with L2TP ? I will ...
by steen
Sat May 24, 2014 12:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.13 released!
Replies: 176
Views: 65545

Re: v6.13 released!

Hello Folks! At RoS6.7 L2TP was working properly, after RoS6.7 L2TP stops transferring data after anything between 70Kb to 13MB. The same goes for V6.13. It is for all RB platforms, RB411, RB433, RB333, RB600, RB2011UAS, RB750 and so on. Anyone else who had experiense of problem with L2TP ? I will p...
by steen
Sat May 24, 2014 1:02 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS Documentation
Replies: 45
Views: 18482

Re: CRS Documentation

Hello Folks! More discoveries, the CRS sometimes hangs forever in starting services after a reboot, a power cycle usually brings it back to operation again. So it looks like that older bug is not fully removed. I will tell MT support about it as well because the device is rendered as useless in prod...
by steen
Sat May 24, 2014 12:48 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS Documentation
Replies: 45
Views: 18482

Re: CRS Documentation

great ;-) Okey, now I tested the suggested solution I was given from MT support. The result: It is _NOT_ working when /interface ethernet switch set forward-unknown-vlan=no It has to be /interface ethernet switch set forward-unknown-vlan=yes or no traffic is passed at all. Leaking traffic ?: I did ...
by steen
Tue May 20, 2014 10:09 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS Documentation
Replies: 45
Views: 18482

Re: CRS Documentation

I'm suffering the same issues. I even tried the examples and they don't work! Each new release I hope will fix it but each time I'm let down. Hello Folks! I receved something yesterday from MT support, I am currently in Stockholm so I can not test, but it look very promocing and will eventually wor...
by steen
Sun May 18, 2014 7:12 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS Documentation
Replies: 45
Views: 18482

Re: CRS Documentation

Hello Folks!

I am very sorry RoS v6.13, the switch does still not work in this very basic accessport+vlan+trunk configuration. Not even the CRS example configurations work.

Anyone out there who ever got it working, and how did you solve it ?
How do we continue ?
by steen
Sun May 18, 2014 7:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.13 released!
Replies: 176
Views: 65545

Re: v6.13 released!

Hello Folks! Sorry to sat that CRS and simple vlans, trunk and access ports still does not work. I did reset configuration with no defaults and with defaults, result is the same. I did not to a netboot install, that test remains. However the CRS does not hang anymore when trying, otherwise it fails...
by steen
Fri May 16, 2014 10:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CRS-125 works like-hub
Replies: 15
Views: 5311

Re: CRS-125 works like-hub

Hello Folks! Tested ROS6.13 today (full reset without defaults and updated it, no netinstall yet). The same CRS port based vlans and inter vlan routing examples same results all fail, no traffic at all is passed through the device to any ports, and yes we tried using both ether1 and ether2 as master...
by steen
Fri May 16, 2014 9:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v6.13 released!
Replies: 176
Views: 65545

Re: v6.13 released!

Hello Folks! Sorry to sat that CRS and simple vlans, trunk and access ports still does not work. I did reset configuration with no defaults and with defaults, result is the same. I did not to a netboot install, that test remains. However the CRS does not hang anymore when trying, otherwise it fails ...
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